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Kiss the Sky Tonight -- Month of October 2018

Monday, October 15th 2018 02:56 PM

Welcome to the night sky report for October 2018 -- Your guide to the constellations, deep sky objects, planets, and celestial events that are observable during the month. Look for Pegasus, the great winged horse of Greek mythology, prancing across the autumn night sky. Binoculars and small telescopes will reveal the glowing nucleus and spiral arms of our neighbor, the Andromeda Galaxy. Don’...

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Soyuz rocket failure: What went wrong, and what happens next

Saturday, October 13th 2018 12:32 PM

  Launch Failure   Two astronauts made an emergency landing in Kazakhstan Thursday after a Russian Soyuz rocket failed while launching them to the International Space Station. According to NASA officials, the rocket failed in its ascent soon after liftoff and the capsule with the astronauts inside —  one Russian and one American — was sent careening ba...

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NASA Celebrates the 50th Anniversary of Apollo 7

Thursday, October 11th 2018 04:59 PM

On Oct. 11, 1968, NASA launched its first crewed Apollo mission, which paved the way for the moon landing less than a year later.  The Apollo 7 crew was commanded by Walter Schirra, with Command Module Pilot Donn Eisele, and Lunar Module Pilot Walter Cunningham. The mission consisted of an 11-day Earth-orbital test flight to test the Apollo command and service module...

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The five brightest planets align in the night sky

Monday, October 15th 2018 02:42 PM

  For the second time this year, the five brightest planets in our solar system — Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, and Mars — will be visible in the night sky, at the same time.The planets will form a line that rises up from the horizon in the western sky and it will be easiest to see after sunset this Thursday, October 18. However, all month these planets will be vis...

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The Jesuit astronomer who conceived of the Big Bang

Saturday, October 13th 2018 11:57 AM

  In 1927, a prescient astronomer named Georges Lemaître looked at data showing how galaxies move. He noticed something peculiar – all of them appeared to be speeding away from Earth. Not only that, but the farther away they were, the faster they went. He determined a mathematical way to represent this, and connected his relationship to Einstein’s law of General Relativit...

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How did Titan get its haze?

Friday, October 12th 2018 01:46 PM

Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, is enveloped in a thick, hazy atmosphere. One new research collaboration has identified a chemical mechanism that could help to explain how the moon's haze formed.   Titan's Haze Both space probes and land-based instruments have identified the chemical composition of the major constituents of the haze,” said Musahid Ahmed, a scientist in Berkeley...

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