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Video: The Apollo 11 Moon Walk Montage

NASA / By Aaron Kebede / September 28, 2020 September 28, 2020

Apollo 11 was the first crewed mission to land on the Moon by NASA on 20 July 1969 by astronauts Neil Armstrong, Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin and Michael Collins.

Astronomy, Featured, NASA / By The Guardian / July 27, 2020 January 5, 2022

Tiny piece of meteorite from London’s Natural History Museum will be used by rover exploring red planet

Astronomy, Learn Physics, NASA, News / By The Guardian / March 21, 2020 January 5, 2022

NASA has shortlisted four proposals for its next astrophysics missions, due for launch in 2025. The agency has funding to fly two of them, and the four will now each receive funds for a nine-month period of technical study. The two missions will be chosen next year.

Image: 'Pale Blue Dot' revisited

Astronomy, NASA, News / By Sourav Ghosh / February 13, 2020 February 13, 2020

The picture, named “The Pale Blue Dot” was obtained on 14th February, 1990, moments before the camera and the several other instruments of the Voyager were powered off for conservation of battery, since the probe wouldn’t make a close flyby past any other objects during their lifetime.

Astronomy, Featured, NASA, News / By The Guardian / February 5, 2020 January 5, 2022

First observations from Inouye telescope bring previously hazy star into sharp focus.
The striking images reveal a surprising level of structure hidden within the churning plasma exterior, bringing a previously hazy impression of the sun’s patchwork surface sharply into focus for the first time.

Astronomy, Featured, NASA / By The Guardian / January 19, 2020 January 5, 2022

Objects raise hopes of scientists managing to track ‘blobs’ being swallowed by black hole
A number of bizarre shape-shifting objects have been discovered close to the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way.
The blobs are thought to be giant stars that spend part of their orbits so close to the black hole that they get stretched out like bubble gum before returning to a compact, roughly spherical form.

What to expect from NASA in 2020 – a NASA video sneak peeks us into projects to be done this year including a search for aliens

Astronomy, Featured, NASA, News / By Aaron Kebede / January 15, 2020 January 15, 2020

NASA’s main projected aimed for this year included ” Launching Americans from U.S. soil, sending a new rover to Mars and continuing to prepare for human missions to the Moon are just a few of the things NASA has planned for 2020.“

Astronomy, Featured, NASA, News / By The Guardian / January 9, 2020 January 5, 2022

Not since the 1960s have we witnessed such appetite for space missions. Here’s what to expect in the year ahead, from commercial launches to Chinese ambitions

The supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy may have a friend

Astronomy, NASA / By The Guardian / January 8, 2020 January 8, 2020

Do supermassive black holes have friends? The nature of galaxy formation suggests that the answer is yes, and in fact, pairs of supermassive black holes should be common in the universe.