Event: Stargazing Nights
Frosty Drew Observatory and Science Center Events
When: Fri, Dec 9, 2022 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Welcome to the Frosty Drew Observatory Stargazing Nights! Tonight we will open the Observatory, Science Center and Sky Theatre at 7:00 offering fabulous astronomy experiences. Read about it....- By: Frosty Drew Observatory and Science Center Events
- On: Mon, 8 Aug 2022 13:26:47 EDT
Celebration of Space - December 9, 2022
Reported by Scott MacNeill's Columns
This coming Tuesday, December 13, 2022, the annual Geminid Meteor Shower peak will occur. The Geminid peak is the best meteor shower peak of the year, bringing with it upwards of 150 meteors per hour in addition to regular meteor activity. The peak will la...
- By: Scott MacNeill
- On: Fri, 9 Dec 2022 14:43:25 EST
NASA Tests a Solar Sail Segment of its Enormous Solar Cruiser Mission
Reported by Universe Today
A team led by NASA Marshall was selected to build a technology demonstrator called the Solar Cruiser to mature solar sail technology
The post NASA Tests a Solar Sail Segment of its Enormous Solar Cruiser Mission appeared first on Universe Today.
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- By: Universe Today
- On: Sat, 10 Dec 2022 01:23 +0000
If Dark Matter is Made of Axions, This Could be the Detector That Finds Them
Reported by Universe Today
As we’ve noted in plenty of other articles, science also moves forward by constraints. Understanding the limits of a physical phenomenon helps to develop better methods of looking for it, especially in its absence. Dark matter is an archetype of a mi...
- By: Universe Today
- On: Fri, 09 Dec 2022 23:37 +0000
James Webb Space Telescope peers into the 'ghostly light' of interstellar space
Reported by Space
The James Webb Space Telescope has granted astronomers a look at the faint almost ghostly light emitted from stars that exist between galaxies packed into galactic clusters.
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- By: Space
- On: Fri, 09 Dec 2022 23:00 +0000
Rocket Lab now aims to launch 1st Electron booster from US soil on Dec. 13
Reported by Space
The commercial launch company Rocket Lab will have to wait a few more days for its first-ever launch from U.S. soil due to bad weather.
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- By: tmalik@space.com (Tariq Malik)
- On: Fri, 09 Dec 2022 22:38 +0000