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| Jul 25, 2026 | Инопланетные зонды могут прятаться на нашем заднем дворе | За прошедшие десятилетия человечество отправило в глубокий космос пять аппаратов, которые рано или поздно покинут пределы Солнечной системы: «Вояджер-1», «Вояджер-2», «Пионер-10», «Пионер-11» и «Новые горизонты». Это наглядное технологическ... |
| Jun 4, 2026 | Почему радиоастрономы убеждены, что контакт с инопланетянами — лишь вопрос времени | В книге «Эхо Вселенной: как радиоастрономия помогает нам увидеть невидимый космос» астрофизик Эмма Чепмен рассказывает о скрытых уголках космоса, которые могут раскрыть только радиоволны, и приводит аргументы в пользу установления контакта ... |
| Jun 1, 2026 | Научные аргументы в пользу того, почему Плутон нужно (снова) сделать планетой | В 2006 году Международный астрономический союз впервые дал определение термина «планета», исключив из него Плутон и все другие карликовые планеты. Не настало ли в 2026 году время для пересмотра этого решения?
Плутон, запечатлённый на композ... |
| Apr 18, 2026 | Kansas Amateur Astronomer Gary Hug Discovers and Names Asteroid 6969 Krypto After Superman’s Legendary Super-Dog | Share
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Gary Hug, the dedicated backyard astronomer operating Sandlot Observatory (H36) in rural Kansas, has added another achievement to his impressive record of minor planet discove... |
| Apr 8, 2026 | Starlink Satellites And Astronomy At Risk With The Rise Of Space Debris From Megaconstellations | By Renz Soliman
Published: Apr 08 2026, 02:14 AM EDT
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| May 7, 2025 | The impossible is possible: three books that inspire you to believe in yourself | Share
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In 2005, thanks to Michael Brown’s scientific antics, Pluto was removed from the list of planets in the solar system. In 1968, the Apollo 8 mission flew around the moon. In 2001, Chris Hadfield became the first... |
| Aug 7, 2024 | The Cosmic Stage: Africa Hosts the Astronomy Olympics | In a world where science often takes a backseat to spectacle, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) is flipping the script. The 32nd General Assembly, a grand gathering of the brightest minds in astronomy, is taking place in Cape Town,... |
| Aug 7, 2024 | Astronomy Olympics is being hosted in Africa for the first time | The Salt observatory in Sutherland
Cutting-edge telescopes, gravitational waves, black holes and our solar system’s central star, the sun, are just a few of the topics that will be on the table in Cape Town for an event that’s a scientific ... |
| Aug 1, 2024 | Outer space is coming to the Mother City | More than 2 000 of the world’s professional astronauts will converge on Cape Town next week for the 2024 International Astronomical Union (IAU) General Assembly.
The event is being held on African soil for the first time in the organisation... |
| Jun 7, 2024 | Международный астрономический союз назвал лунный кратер именем академика Галимова | 4 июня 2024 года Международный астрономический союз (International Astronomical Union) назвал лунный кратер именем геохимика и планетолога, бывшего директора ГЕОХИ РАН, академика Эрика Михайловича Галимова (1936-2020). Кратер диаметром 34 к... |
| May 30, 2024 | NASA Hubble Space Telescope Unveils Breathtaking Image of Spiral Galaxy That Lies in Ancient Egyptian Queen's Hair | By Jace Dela Cruz
Published May 30, 2024 5:38AM EDT
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A jewel-like galaxy radiates royally in a new image from the Hubble Space Telescope.... |
| May 23, 2024 | THE LEGO GROUP CELEBRATES CHILDREN'S UNIQUE CURIOSITY ABOUT THE COSMOS BY ASKING THEM TO EXPLORE SPACE THEIR WAY | The LEGO Group invites kids to see space as a playground for their imagination as it blasts their predictions of space travel above the New York City skyline
A new global study1 by the LEGO Group reveals that 86 percent of kids are interest... |
| Apr 18, 2024 | Outdoors | Many of Colorado’s favorite 14ers just had their elevations changed | Derek van Westrum grew up in Golden and has climbed more than half of Colorado’s fourteeners. He has an emotional attachment to those peaks, so he’s glad — and a little relieved — that his most recent assignment with the National Geodetic S... |
| Apr 1, 2024 | Arizona names Pluto as its official state planet — except it's technically not a planet | Arizona has a new state emblem — and it's one that has been a source of controversy among scientists for years. Gov. Katie Hobbs signed a bill on Friday designating Pluto — once considered the ninth planet of our solar system and since down... |
| Oct 3, 2023 | Giant Satellite Becomes One of the Brightest Objects in Night Sky, But Here's Why It Sparks Concerns Among Astronomers | Inno Flores, Tech Times 03 October 2023, 01:10 am
Researchers have made an intriguing discovery - the unique brightness of the giant BlueWalker 3 satellite. On certain occasions, it outshines nearly all celestial bodies visible from Earth, ... |
| Jan 17, 2023 | SpaceX, NSF Agree to Mitigate Impact of Starlink Satellites on Ground-Based Astronomy | John Lopez, Tech Times 17 January 2023, 07:01 am
In November 2022, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) expressed concern about the impact of the recently launched prototype BlueWalker 3 satellite on astronomy.
The low Earth orbiting ... |
| Jan 11, 2023 | На волоске: как работает огромная сеть подводных кабелей, которая обеспечивает мир интернетом | И могут ли спутники её заменить.Скриншот 3D-карты кабелей, проложенных по дну океана. Автор Tyler Morgan-Wall
95% международного интернет-трафика проходит по волоконно-оптическим кабелям, которые лежат на дне морей и океанов, они соединяют ... |
| Dec 21, 2022 | Кому принадлежит время | Знать время нужно всем. Точное время необходимо для криптографии, непрерывного производства, навигации на Земле и в космосе.
Интернет зависит от времени так, что малейшая ошибка ведет к масштабным проблемам: падению серверов, сбоям в DNS, з... |
| Dec 5, 2022 | Max Q: Building on the moon and Mars | Hello and welcome back to Max Q! Are you ready for TC’s Space event!? It’s happening tomorrow in Los Angeles. Give me a shout-out if you’ll be attending, I’d love to meet you.
In this issue:
ICON’s in-space construction tech ambitions
Astra... |
| Nov 29, 2022 | Astronomers ‘Troubled’ as New Satellite Outshines Most Stars in the Sky | Cell phone towers in space may be the next frontier of mobile communication, but astronomers are starting to get worried. AST SpaceMobile successfully deployed its new BlueWalker 3 communication satellite, and the International Astronomical... |
| Aug 12, 2022 | NASA's James Webb Space Telescope Will Let You Name 20 Exoplanets- Find Out How! | Joaquin Victor Tacla, Tech Times 12 August 2022, 09:08 am
(Photo : NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI via Getty Images)) IN SPACE - JULY 12: In this handout photo provided by NASA, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope reveals Stephans Quintet, a visual... |
| Feb 9, 2022 | 40 SpaceX Starlink Satellites Reportedly Hit By Geomagnetic Storm | How Dangerous is it? | Joseph Henry, Tech Times 09 February 2022, 02:02 am
SpaceX reportedly lost 40 Starlink internet satellites in low orbit after they were hit by an unexpected geomagnetic storm.
The satellites were deployed last Thursday, Feb. 3. Two days lat... |
| Feb 6, 2022 | Astronomers are worried about satellite constellations like Starlink | Ever since SpaceX began the process of launching its Starlink satellite constellation, consisting of thousands of satellites that work together to create a global broadband network, astronomers have been expressing worry about the effects s... |
| Nov 4, 2021 | NASA Will Launch Its Asteroid-Deflection Mission This Month | RJ Pierce, Tech Times 04 November 2021, 07:11 pm
NASA will be going "Armageddon" soon. But for this one, there won't be any nukes, Bruce Willis, or Ben Affleck.
The agency will be conducting their so-called Double Asteroid Redirec... |
| Sep 23, 2020 | TAKE A LOOK | SA astronomer found a new comet – and it’s named after him | (saao.ac.za)
A South African astronomer has found a new comet.
Comets are generally named after the people who find them, so this one goes by moniker C/2020 S3 (Erasmus).
The comet was initially flagged as a potential “near-Earth” asteroid.... |
| Feb 18, 2020 | SpaceX launches 60 more internet-beaming satellites — but rocket booster misses landing on drone ship | A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with a thrice-flown first stage vaulted into space Monday, releasing a fifth set of 60 Starlink internet relay satellites in an ongoing commercial initiative to provide broadband access around the world. Initial ser... |
| Feb 14, 2020 | Astronomers warn of ‘worrisome’ light pollution from satellite constellations | The International Astronomical Union has issued the preliminary results from a study on the potential effects of multi-thousand satellite constellations like that being built by StarLink. Finding that Earth-based astronomical observations m... |
| Jan 29, 2020 | Scientists Get Creative To Name Discoveries After Fictional And Cultural Characters | Today, researchers from Columbia University and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory revealed that they had figured out how the pheromone darcin helps mice attract mice of the opposite sex. It’s a complex neurological pathway, and usually these ty... |
| Jan 6, 2020 | NASA’s planet-hunting satellite found another potentially habitable Earth-sized planet | NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has discovered another Earth-sized, potentially habitable planet orbiting around a star in the range of distances where conditions could allow for the presence of liquid water on the plane... |
| Jun 5, 2019 | Astronomers fret over ‘debilitating threat’ of thousands of satellites cluttering the sky | The promise of today’s nascent communications satellite constellations is real: connecting everyone on the globe, no exceptions. But the dark side, or rather bright side, of these satellites threatens to pollute the sky with innumerable poi... |
| Apr 25, 2018 | The Exoplanets Most Likely to Harbor Life | It’s hard to remember now, but there was a long period of time in which scientists weren’t sure how many planets might actually exist throughout the galaxy, much less how likely it might be to find a rocky planet. Thanks to missions like Ke... |
| Jul 1, 2015 | If Wednesday felt long, that’s because it was | |
| Dec 29, 2014 | You can help name 5 craters on Mercury | Gods and goddesses once provided the names for space discoveries. Nowadays, we’ve got crowdsourcing.
The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab team behind a probe’s mission to Mercury is seeking names for five new (to us) craters that were disc... |
| Feb 8, 2011 | Looking For The Perfect Valentine's Day Gift? Don't Buy Your Loved One A Star! | NASA’d
We’re knee-deep in Valentine’s Day festivities here at CG, so I thought I’d take a moment to help you figure out what not to buy your significant other. One thing you don’t want to get them? A star, or any other sort of celestial pro... |
| Dec 18, 2009 | You're not actually buying a star with the International Star Registry, you know | We’ve started to receive a few e-mails from the International Star Registry saying the usual “name a star after your loved one for the holidays.” I just wanted to remind you that while naming a star after your honey bunny is cute and all, a... |
| Почему Плутон выгнали из планет (а теперь хотят вернуть обратно) | Почему Плутон выгнали из планет (а теперь хотят вернуть обратно)
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В конце февраля космическое агентство NASA открыло инопланетян. Это неправда, хотя так гласили некоторые заголовки. Речь шла всего... |
| Астрономический словарик: гидростатическое равновесие, горизонт событий, гравитационное линзирование | Гидростатическое равновесие
Впервые термин ввели физики для описания состояния жидкостей, в котором действующие на неё силы уравновешиваются. В таком случае жидкость находится в состоянии покоя. На поверхности Земли, например, это может быт... |
