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Giant planet or 'failed star?' Newfound mystery world blurs the lines
"With an orbital period of 570 days, it is a relatively cold gas giant planet," said Guðmundur Stefánsson of the University ...
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Star Trackers: Telling Up From Down In Any Space
Keeping track of position is crucial in a lot of ... (Credit: astrobackyard.com) It isn’t just in space where star trackers are useful, either. In order to take photographs of the Milky Way ...
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Two mysterious fast radio bursts originated from wildly different places in space
Astronomers have traced two mysterious fast radio bursts from space to wildly different places, which suggests the phenomenon ...
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Starlink satellite train: how to see and track it in the night sky
Related: Track the ISS: How and where to see it The megaconstellation developed by the private spaceflight company SpaceX may grow to as many as 42,000 satellites in orbit, according to the ...
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How Star Trek fans changed the name of NASA’s first space shuttle
Images: NASA These are the voyages of the space shuttle Enterprise, boldly renamed by former President Gerald Ford after a massive letter-writing campaign from Star Trek fans. In 1974 ...