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Nov 2, 2021

A ‘Blood Moon,’ Two Meteor Showers And The Return Of Orion Spark A Naked Eye Sky Feast: Your Stargazing Guide To November 2021

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Here comes another great month for stargazing. If you’ve been learning about the night sky during lockdown and paying attention to what goes on each evening in the skies above you may already have seen a bright naked-eye comet, a “Super Blood Moon” lunar eclipse and even a super-rare “great conjunction.”

Now get ready for some repeats—and some incredible new sights.

November will see a couple of meteor showers—the South and North Taurids—as well as the seventh planet, Uranus, at opposition. Those in North America may also get to see a big partial lunar eclipse on November 19 2021 and, if we’re all really lucky, our planet may just get treated to another rare sight as Comet Leonard pays us a visit. That’s due to look its best in December, but for now there’s plenty to get excited about in the November night skies … not least the return of the famous constellation of Orion “the hunter”.

Nov 1, 2021

Hear and Feel BepiColombo Spacecraft’s First Tastes of Mercury Science

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The magnetic and particle environment around Mercury was sampled by BepiColombo for the first time during the mission’s close flyby of the planet at 199 km on 1–2 October 2,021 while the huge gravitational pull of the planet was felt by its accelerometers.

The magnetic and accelerometer data have been converted into sound files and presented here for the first time. They capture the ‘sound’ of the solar wind as it bombards a planet close to the Sun, the flexing of the spacecraft as it responded to the change in temperature as it flew from the night to dayside of the planet, and even the sound of a science instrument rotating to its ‘park’ position.

Nov 1, 2021

I just returned from a trip of a lifetime to the International Astronautical Federation’s IAC 2021 in Dubai, hosted by UAE’s Mohammed bin Rashid Space Center!

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Oct 31, 2021

The Amazing Plan For A Million Person Mars Colony By 2112

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Hey it’s Han from WrySci HX going through an intensive plan on how to build a fully functioning society on Mars! Developed by ABIBOO Studio and the Sustainable Offworld Network, we’ll take a look at the architecture, technology, energy, sustainability, government and more of the potential million person Mars colony in the new world. Quite interesting! More below ↓↓↓

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Oct 31, 2021

This is the radical tech NASA needs to focus on, says ‘October Sky’ engineer

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Here’s why.


Homer Hickam is the author of Rocket Boys, the book that inspired the film October Sky. The NASA engineer reveals why he thinks the agency should focus on nuclear rockets and other ideas.

Oct 31, 2021

Bayan Abusalameh — Chevening Scholar, Advanced Mechanical Engineering, Queen Mary University London

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, space

Harnessing The Potential Of Star Gazers And Space Enthusiasts For Scientific Solutions To Existing Earth Crises — Ms. Bayan Mohammed Abusalameh — Inventor, Pal… See more.


Ms. Bayan Abusalameh is a 2020/2021 Chevening Scholar in Advanced Mechanical Engineering, at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL), who just finished off her Master’s Dissertation entitled “An Innovative Structural Design For a 1U CubeSat” (The Palestine-1)

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Oct 31, 2021

Why You Need To Look Very Carefully At Hubble’s Jaw-Dropping New Image For Halloween

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The Hubble Space Telescope is celebrating Halloween by releasing new images of a spooky “orange eye” peeking out of a cosmic cloud.

The eye in question is CW Leonis, a carbon star in the constellation of Leo, the lion.

Look closely at the main image, above, and you’ll see that not only is CW Leonis itself an incredible sight, but around it are countless distant galaxies.… See more.

Oct 30, 2021

NASA confirms massive solar flare will hit Earth, arrival time found

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NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory has confirmed that a massive solar flare has erupted from an Earth-facing sunspot on October 28.

Oct 30, 2021

From sci-fi to reality: How the US Space Force launched a digital revolution

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It appears the Pentagon is prepared to see how deep the rabbit hole goes.

Oct 30, 2021

Scientists Find Strange Black “Superionic Ice” That Could Exist Deep Inside Other Planets

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Using the Advanced Photon Source, scientists have recreated the structure of ice formed at the center of planets like Neptune.

Neptune is the farthest planet from the sun. In our solar system, it is the fourth-largest planet by size, and third densest. It is named after the Roman god of the sea.