Category: NASA

This means that in this decade we will be able to send people to the moon, where they can not only live, but also fully engage in science! It is assumed that the base will be built in the Shackleton crater and will include a main residential module, a habitable mobile platform and a lunar…

Astronomers have discovered a cataclysmic variable with the shortest period of rotation among the currently known systems of this type The stellar duo consists of a white dwarf and a sun-like star that make one revolution around each other in just 51 minutes! The ZTFJ 1813+4251 system was screened out of more than a billion…

The new map of the Universe for the first time displays the coverage of the entire known cosmos with extreme accuracy. Created by astronomers at Johns Hopkins University based on data collected over two decades using the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, the map provides an opportunity to get acquainted with data previously available only to…

The Capstone spacecraft reached the lunar orbit on Sunday, where it will spend at least six months. This is reported on the NASA website. The tasks of the device include the calculation of the orbit for the future Gateway lunar station. Its mass is about 25 kg. NASA announced in the spring of 2019 that…

James Webb photographed the Pillars of Creation Thanks to its technical capabilities, the James Webb telescope has the ability to penetrate the dust curtain and capture previously unseen details of the internal structure of nebulae and regions of active star formation. No wonder NASA used it to shoot the Pillars of Creation. The JWST image…

Flying into space can increase the risk of cancer. American scientists from the Icon Medical School on Mount Sinai analyzed the blood of 14 NASA astronauts. The samples showed signs of somatic DNA mutations. Because of them, the risk of developing cancer and heart disease may increase. On average, astronauts stayed in space for 12…

SpaceX was one and a half years ahead of the schedule for the deployment of Starlink satellites in orbit — the FCC demanded that 2204 satellites be put into operation by March 2024. Currently, 2,941 satellites have been deployed — 66% of the total plan of 4,408 satellites. Of these, 2,383 are already in operation.…

Scientists want to smash a satellite on an asteroid to change its flight path. This will be the first such experiment in the history of mankind. The clash is scheduled for September 27.

The object is located at a distance of 5.6 thousand light years from Earth in the direction of the constellation Cygnus The James Webb Space Telescope has captured an image of the impressive concentric rings of light surrounding the binary star WR 140. According to astronomers, such an unusual appearance of the nebula is the…

Apollo 11 on the moon began researching the exact distance from Earth to the moon. To do this, they brought devices resembling small arrays of mirrors – they are called retroreflectors Research using such a simple device continues to this day