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Space.com

Scientists’ recent detection of low-frequency gravitational waves may shed light on what’s causing a constant rumble of ripples in the very fabric of space and time. Comments (0). Bright points of light spread out throughout space emit a grid-like …

Space.com

Virtual Telescope Project founder and astronomer Gianluca Masi said in an email to Space.com. “This year, the sky conditions will be good, with almost no moon interference. We will be taking images from our facility in Manciano, in the Maremma countryside, …

The Washington Post

SHENANDOAH NATIONAL PARK, Va. — Under the dark night sky Friday night, a hush fell over the crowd of about 600 visitors spread across the lawn and benches at the Shenandoah Skyland Amphitheater as ranger Dani Goodman launched her slide show talk on the …

Austin American-Statesman

There are two kinds of eclipses — solar and lunar. A solar eclipse is when the moon passes in front of the sun, covering its light. A lunar eclipse is when the Earth blocks the sun’s light from hitting the moon, creating a reddish hue on the moon during …

The Hindu

A stream of energetic particles, called cosmic rays, constantly bombards earth from space. It is kept from reaching the ground by earth’s atmosphere and magnetic field. Scientists know that cosmic rays come from the centres of large galaxies and from …

Aviation Week

NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter has completed its 54th flight on Mars, performing a 25-sec. up-and-down hop on the surface. This is the first flight after the 4-lb. aircraft prematurely landed during Flight 53 on July 22. Unlike past flights, the Aug.

Space.com

The second planet from the sun is approaching “inferior conjunction” as it swaps from being the “Evening Star” to the “Morning Star” in the night sky. Comments (0). Venus as a razor-thin crescent as it nears inferior conjunction with the sun.

WTTW News

The star is in the Sunrise Arc galaxy and was only observable because a massive galaxy cluster called WHL0137-08 that exists between Earth and Earendel magnified the distant object. This phenomenon is called gravitational lensing, …

New Scientist

At Fermilab, muons are blasted around a magnetic storage ring at nearly the speed of light, and as they travel they interact with virtual particles that blink in and out of existence due to quantum effects. Then …

PRNewswire

At 12:10 p.m. EDT, NASA astronauts Steve Bowen and Frank Rubio will answer prerecorded questions from students in Kingfisher, Oklahoma. The event, hosted by Kingfisher High School, will connect the students’ knowledge of agriculture to plant science on …