The final Ariane 5 roars away from the Guiana Space Centre on July 5, 2023. Photo: ESA – S. Corvaja.
Europe is facing months without its own independent access to space for large satellites following the retirement of its heavy-lift Ariane 5 rocket this week after notching up its 117th and final mission over 27 years of operations.
Space is often referred to as a vacuum because it lacks the presence of air and other gases that are commonly found in Earth's atmosphere. Here are some key points about space as a vacuum:
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This week marks one year since the powerful James Webb Space Telescope shared its first images of deep space, and you can celebrate the milestone with NASA.
Deep-sky objects may appear static throughout our lifetime but by carefully "blinking" archival and current images we can discern real changes in their appearance.
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Here are some of the best binoculars for stargazing — so impressive it feels like you're looking through two telescopes simultaneously!
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Human-driven climate change is a serious threat to humanity. While climatologists continue to improve our understanding of its impact and consequences, they also look at nature-driven climate change going back millions of years. Whereas for human climate change, we only have a case study of one planet, for natural climate change we have a case study of two planets. Like Earth, Mars has undergone significant climate change in the past. We know, for example, that young Mars was both warm and wet. Its climate changed over a billion years to become the cold and dry world we know today. Even more recently, there have been shifts in the Martian weather, as noted in a recent study in Nature.
The CHEOPS exoplanet hunter has found a distant world so hot that it has clouds of metal making it the most reflective planet ever seen.
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Astronomers have found a missing link in the evolution from stars in binary systems to colliding neutron stars, in the form of stripped, intermediate-mass 'helium stars.'
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At up to 36% off, these Black Series Star Wars lightsabers are fit for any Jedi... or Sith – we're not judging you.
A bargain space gift this Amazon Prime Day, this laser star projector is now just $10, ideal for parties or as a night light — we know because we have one.
On Wednesday (July 12), the waning crescent moon will have a busy morning, first meeting up with the gas giant Jupiter before getting the cold shoulder from ice giant Uranus.
Pick up the BlissLights Sky Lite Evolve for less than $30 to transform your space with stars and pastel colors.
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