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Astronauts finish spacewalk for final fix of international Space Station device
Two astronauts aboard the International Space Station conducted the final spacewalk Saturday to finish a series of repairs on a cosmic ray detector attached to the spacecraft.
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No Belt Can Contain This Asteroid!
There’s the asteroid belt that we all know between Mars and Jupiter; there’s the Kuiper Belt out beyond Neptune, the most famous inha ...
Air Date: January 25, 2020
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The dim red star Proxima Centauri, 4.2 lightyears from Earth, is known to have an EarthPlus-planet in the star’s habitable zone. Now a ...
Air Date: January 21, 2020
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Supernovae are known as element factories, but astronomers are now discovering that merging neutron stars and fast-spinning supernovae ma ...
Air Date: January 11, 2020
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U.S. astronaut sets record for longest spaceflight by a woman
A U.S. astronaut set a record Saturday for the longest single spaceflight by a woman, breaking the old mark of 288 days with about two months left in her mission.
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This year’s highlights in the world of astronomy include: 1) An image of the shadow of a black hole resembles an ‘oran ...
Air Date: December 28, 2019
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We’ve arrived at the point in our solar orbit where the number of hours of sunlight are at a minimum for us in the North, and and c ...
Air Date: December 23, 2019
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Let There Be Light (but not too much)
SpaceX will coat one side of a satellite to reduce brightness interference when observing from Earth. They intend to test one unit on the ...
Air Date: December 14, 2019
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There are lots of hints regarding the possibility of the existence of liquid water around the solar, system, the galaxy, and the universe ...
Air Date: December 2, 2019
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Our Milky Way’s SgrA Black Hole in the center of our galaxy has ejected a star from the galaxy at a brisk 3.7 million miles per hou ...
Air Date: November 23, 2019
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A rare meteor shower may grace the skies tonight
Some scientists predict the Alpha Monocerotids meteor shower will be visible at 11:50 p.m. ET. However, one NASA expert is skeptical of the forecast.
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50 years ago, Americans made the 2nd moon landing… Why doesn’t anyone remember?
Everyone knows about Apollo 11, the first moon landing. And about ill-fated Apollo 13. Between them is the forgotten mission — Apollo 12.
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Following its Pluto encounter in 2015, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft was pushing on into the Kuiper Belt, aiming toward an object ...
Air Date: November 16, 2019
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November 9th marks the anniversary of legendary astronomer Carl Sagan’s birth. Sagan was known for his wonderfully poetic way of ex ...
Air Date: November 9, 2019
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An International Space Station Resupply Mission is scheduled to launch from Wallops Island, Virginia, at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spacep ...
Air Date: November 2, 2019
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