It’s that time again. Once every ten years, the American astronomy community joins forces through the auspices of the National Academies to produce one of the most important and influential reports in their discipline – the decadal survey. This report has been the impetus for some of the great observational instruments of our time, including Spitzer, the Large Millimeter Array, and Chandra. Upcoming heavy-hitting observatories, such as Nancy Grace Roman and Vera C. Rubin, also spawned from suggestions made in the Decadal Survey. In short, if you want to get a grandiose space telescope funded, your best bet is to have it supported by the National Academies in the form of the Decadal Survey. Now a new one is out – so what does it back for the upcoming decade and beyond?
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This Cyber Monday deal on Vanguard VEO ED 8X binoculars $30 off and the lowest price we've ever seen
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This is a Classic Example of a Reflection Nebula, Where the Reflected Light From Young Hot Stars Illuminates a Protostellar Cloud of Gas and Dust
The interplay of energy and matter creates beautiful sights. Here on Earth, we enjoy rainbows, auroras, and sunsets and sunrises. But out in space, nature creates extraordinarily dazzling structures called nebulae that can span hundreds of light-years. Nebulae are probably the most beautiful objects out there.
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Memorabilia dealer to fly diamonds, personal photos on space station
"Up above the world so high, like a diamond in the sky." How do you make a diamond more precious than it already is? Like the nursery rhyme says, fly it high. The Space Collective is doing just that.
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Earth's earliest water may have come from solar wind and space rocks
Samples from asteroid Itokawa collected by a Japanese space probe suggest that Earth's water may have come from the sun.
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A Gravitational Lens Shows the Same Galaxy Three Times
Images from the Hubble Space Telescope are often mind-bending in both their beauty and wealth of scientific wonder. And sometimes, Hubble captures light-bending images too.
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Sentinel-6 returning most precise data ever on sea level
Sea-level rise is one of the most immediate consequences of climate change, as highlighted recently through urgent pleas from leaders of island nations at the COP26 summit. Global measures of sea-level rise are imperative to underpinning global policy and for strategies to protect coastlines and low-lying lands. Measuring tiny differences in the height of the sea surface from space is no easy task – but that’s exactly what the Copernicus Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite is doing. And, after a year of exhaustive testing, this new mission is now delivering the world’s most accurate data on sea-level rise.
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Astronomers Watch Black Hole Jet Launch
Astronomers have watched a jet launch from a stellar-mass black hole inside the Milky Way.
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Did astronomers see the light from two black holes colliding for the first time?
Astronomers may have seen the light from two black holes smashing into one another for the first time ever.
Will Robinson from Netflix's 'Lost in Space' wants to go to space — for real
Will Robinson is ready to go to space.
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