Some of the greatest discoveries in astronomy have been made by watching how the skies change over time. Today we talk about these techniques, and an observatory that will revolutionize time-based astronomy.
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Hosting an evening star party this summer? Then you're in for a treat. Starting this week, all five naked eye planets (Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn) are visible in the evening sky at dusk for a bried few weeks.
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As part of their Journey to Mars, NASA has unveiled the compact exercise system its astronauts will use to stay healthy during the trip
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Located in the constellation of Ophiuchus, some 28,700,000 light years from Earth, lies the faint globular cluster known as Messier 19
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A look at the Solar Systems largest planet (Jupiter) and how it stacks up in terms of size, mass, satellites, and composition to our home planet
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Get ready to tune in the Red Planet on your earbuds. NASA recently announced that it would include a microphone in its Mars 2020 Mission.
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - The outlook is outstanding for a dramatic midnight blastoff of the next SpaceX commercial cargo Dragon jam packed with some 5000 pounds of critical payloads and research supplies for NASA and heading to the space station on Monday, July 18 - that also simultaneously features an experimental land landing that promises to rock loudly across the Florida space coast and one day slash launch costs.
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After a decade of research, the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey has released the most detailed 3D map of the Universe to date
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Images from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory have spotted a growing dark region called a coronal hole, which is the cause of high-speed solar winds that can disrupt satellite communications.
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In the northern skies, flanked by the Big Dipper, lies the Bootes constellation, one of the traditional constellations listed by Ptolemy
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Using carbon nanotubes, a team of NASA engineers has created a series of revolutionary new telescope mirrors for a Cubesat telescope
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NASA's newly arrived Jovian orbiter Juno has transmitted its first imagery since reaching orbit last week on July 4 after swooping over Jupiter's cloud tops and powering back up its package of state-of-the-art science instruments for unprecedented research into determining the origin of our solar systems biggest planet.
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Galileo's telescope, an instrument he made himself and used to revolutionize astronomy, still manages to inspire us today
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The EPIC camera on-board NASA's Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) has captured images of the Moon passing in front of the Earth as the Earth rotates behind it.
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The Milky Way Galaxy is a very, very big place. And figuring out where Earth resides inside of it has been no simple task
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The SABRE (Synergistic Air-Breathing Rocket Engine) being developed for the European Space Agency could be ready for test firing in four years.
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Thanks to the ESA's Cluster mission, scientists now know that part of the plasma found in our magnetosphere is coming from us!
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Stars can spin faster or slower than the Sun. What's the fastest that's ever been discovered, and what's the fastest speed you can have before they tear themselves apart?
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A dwarf planet has been discovered beyond Neptune. It's about 700 km in size, and its orbit takes it 120 times further from the Sun than the Earth is.
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In the far-flung system of CVSO 30, two planetary candidates have been found with very different orbits - presenting new opportunities for exoplanet study
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A flawless shakedown mission from Russia's newly modified Soyuz capsule successfully delivered a new multinational crew to the Space Station early Saturday, July 9 after a two day orbital chase.
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What if the Earth just stopped dead in its tracks while orbiting the Sun? It would plummet straight down of course, but how long would it take to actually crash into the Sun?
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Astronomers discover the first exoplanet orbiting within a triple star system and manage to obtain a direct image of the new world.
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Construction has just finished on the Five-hundred-metre Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST), the world's largest single-aperture telescope
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As part of Juno's mission to Jupiter, Lego has fashioned three figurines (representing Jupiter, Juno and Galileo) to accompany the probe on its mission
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Astronomers have now determined a nearby brown dwarf has some exciting characteristics: its atmosphere is full of clouds of water vapor. This is the first time water clouds have been detected outside of our Solar System.
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An international trio of astronauts and cosmonauts representing the United States, Russia and Japan blasted off in the early morning Kazakh hours today, July 7, for a new mission of science and discovery on the International Space Station (ISS).
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According to a recent study from Cornell University, the prebiotic conditions for life might exist on Titan, despite it being cold and having no water
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In the outer region of our Solar System lie four giant planets - also known as Jovians. And beyond our Sun, thousands more are being found...
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The Moon makes a close pass near Jupiter this weekend and occults it for observers in the southern Indian Ocean region.
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Based on our current growth in energy usage, how long will it take before we use up all the energy of our planet, of our star, or even all the energy in our galaxy?
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Since time immemorial, humans have known that the Sun will rise in the east and set in the west. But why exactly does it happen this way?
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Located between 5,000 and 6,000 light years from Earth is the Omega Nebula, one of the brightest and most massive star-forming regions in our galaxy
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A recently released catalogue showing the results of a Herschel survey has revealed how stars have cleaned the universe over billions of years
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Our guide to earth at aphelion for July 4th, 2016.
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On July 4th, the Juno spacecraft - the second long-term mission to Jupiter - will arrive at the gas giant, and begin to shed light its many mysteries
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In an 'Independence Day' gift to a slew of US planetary research scientists, NASA has granted approval to nine ongoing missions to continue for another two years this holiday weekend.
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As part of China's Chang'e-4 lunar mission. a new radio antenna being developed in the Netherlands will be deployed to the far side of the Moon in 2018
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One of the strangest implications of Relativity is the concept of time dilation; how people moving at different speeds will experience different amounts of time. Dr. Brian Koberlein helps us figure it out.
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New chemical science findings from NASA's Mars rover Curiosity indicate that ancient Mars likely had a higher abundance of molecular oxygen in its atmosphere compared to the present day and was thus more hospitable to life forms, if they ever existed.
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At the annual National Astronomy Meeting, members of the Ultra Deep Survey (UDS) team shared images that are the deepest view of the Universe yet
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