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How to spot the International Space Station from Earth
Station orbits in low Earth orbit at about 400 km The International Space Station circles Earth at roughly 400 kilometres altitude, a…
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International Space Station modules explained
Station orbits in low Earth orbit at about 400 km The International Space Station circles Earth at an altitude of roughly 400…
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The instrument built in Poland that will help explore Jupiter’s icy moons
Astri Poland has provided equipment for the research mission of the European Space Agency (ESA), which will aim to study Jupiter and…
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Hubble and the Chandra observatory resume observations
Following the failure of two NASA telescopes - Hubble Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory - scientific operations have been suspended. The…
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A super-Earth in orbit around our nearest single star
A rocky planet more than three times the size of Earth orbits the star Bernard, which is "only" six light-years away. The…
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Parker Solar Probe survives first close encounter with the Sun
The Parker Solar Probe has survived its first close approach to the sun, NASA reported. The spacecraft came within 24 million kilometers…
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Dawn has exhausted its fuel supply. The mission to the asteroid belt has come to an end
A few days after the news of the end of the Kepler Space Telescope mission, another NASA mission has come to an…
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The existence of the Kordelevsky moons has been confirmed
Astronomers have speculated for decades about dust clouds supposedly located at Lagrange points. Their existence was first suggested by Polish astronomer Kazimierz…
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The first detailed observations of matter orbiting close to a black hole
New observations made with ESO's extremely sensitive instrument GRAVITY have shown a gas cloud accelerating at a speed of about 30 per…
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One of the oldest stars in the Universe has been discovered
Astronomers at Johns Hopkins University have spotted a strange star with very little mass and very little metal. Researchers estimate it to…