Black Astrophysicist Dies, Designed Telescope That Flew on Apollo 16
The Big Picture NASA astrophysicist and engineer Dr. George R. Carruthers, best known as the principal designer of a telescope that flew...
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Jan 2, 20201 min read
Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse!
The Big Picture: Betelgeuse, the second largest star in the Orion constellation, is acting...strange. Astronomers have been watching and...
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Dec 16, 20191 min read
Weed in Space
The Big Picture: Daaaang SpaceX! Last week, it was barley to make beer. Now it’s weed. Somebody call us a space taxi. There’s a holiday...
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Dec 13, 20191 min read
Rock of Ages
The Big Picture: NASA has found a place for the Osiris-Rex spacecraft to land on the carbon-rich near Earth asteroid named Bennu....
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Dec 12, 20191 min read
I'm Your Venus, I'm Your Fire...
The Big Picture: NASA hasn't been back to Venus since it sent the Magellan probe more than 30 years ago. Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL)...
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Dec 9, 20191 min read
Ice, Ice Baby!
The Big Picture: Astronomers have identified for the first time a pair of stars that have "plucked" icy comets and swung them into orbits...
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Dec 9, 20191 min read
Possible Fix for SpaceX’s Glaring Error?
The Big Picture: SpaceX has launched more than 120 Starlink satellites with the aim of providing space-based Internet service. The...
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Dec 6, 20191 min read
Here Comes The Sun
The Big Picture: The Parker Solar Probe — NASA's $1.5 billion spacecraft launched in 2018 to study the outer corona of the Sun — has...
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Dec 5, 20191 min read
SpaceX Dragon Launched Today
The Big Picture: Yesterday's launch of SpaceX's Dragon cargo delivery to the International Space Station (ISS) was delayed until today....
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Dec 3, 20191 min read
Daylight Come & Me Wanna Go Home*
The Big Picture: NASA Langley researchers using the Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations (CALIPSO)...
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