Category: 2. Space
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España es el 25.º signatario de los Acuerdos de Artemis
En una ceremonia celebrada el martes en el Palacio de la Moncloa de Madrid, España se convirtió en el vigésimo quinto país en firmar los Acuerdos de Artemis. El administrador de la NASA, Bill Nelson, participó en la ceremonia de firma por parte de la agencia, y Diana Morant, la ministra de Ciencia e Innovación…
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U.S. Department of State Releases “Strategic Framework for Space Diplomacy”
Press Release Department of State … Continue Reading News Source: spaceref.com
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Simulations suggest interstellar objects could be captured by Earth’s gravity
Visualization of trajectories of incoming particles getting scattered by the Sun-Earth-Moon system. Since there are two binary systems present, we can calculate the cross section of the whole system and that of the Earth-Moon system. Left: A particle experiencing a close encounter with the Sun. Right: A particle experiencing a close encounter with the Earth-Moon…
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Webb maps surprisingly large plume jetting from Saturn’s moon Enceladus
May 30, 2023 (Nanowerk News) A water vapor plume from Saturn’s moon Enceladus spanning more than 6,000 miles – nearly the distance from Los Angeles, California to Buenos Aires, Argentina – has been detected by researchers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Not only is this the first time such a water emission has been…
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NASA Welcomes Spain as 25th Artemis Accords Signatory
During a ceremony at the Moncloa Palace in Madrid on Tuesday, Spain became the 25th country to sign the Artemis Accords. NASA Administrator Bill Nelson participated in the signing ceremony for the agency, and Diana Morant, Spain’s science and innovation minister, signed on behalf of Spain. Continue Reading News Source: www.nasa.gov
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Hubble captures jellyfish galaxy JW39
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, M. Gullieuszik and the GASP team The jellyfish galaxy JW39 hangs serenely in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. This galaxy lies over 900 million light-years away in the constellation Coma Berenices and is one of several jellyfish galaxies Hubble has been studying over the past two years. Despite…
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Astronomers Discover The Last Planets Seen By Kepler Space Telescope
Light curves of each of the three planet candidate systems. Top row: The full 7.25-d high-quality discovery light curves of each of our systems are shown on the top produced via the process outlined in Section 2.1…. Continue Reading News Source: spaceref.com
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Astronomers discover eight new cataclysmic variables
Spectra of the eight new cataclysmic variables. Credit: Inight et al., 2023. An international team of astronomers has analyzed the data from the latest phase of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). They discovered eight new cataclysmic variables (CV) systems. The finding is reported in a paper published May 22 on the arXiv pre-print server.…
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A telescope’s last view
May 30, 2023 (Nanowerk News) More than 5,000 planets are confirmed to exist beyond our solar system. Over half were discovered by NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope, a resilient observatory that far outlasted its original planned mission. Over nine and a half years, the spacecraft trailed the Earth, scanning the skies for periodic dips in starlight…
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DARPA launches initiative to help tech companies work on classified programs
WASHINGTON — Greg Kuperman, program manager at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Strategic Technology Office, worries that innovations emerging from the commercial space industry will never reach potential customers in the U.S. military. A key reason for that, Kuperman told SpaceNews, is that discussions about next-generation technologies, particularly in the space sector, quickly veer…