Posts Tagged ‘Space’
Challenger: The Shuttle Disaster That Changed Spaceflight
Seventy-three seconds after liftoff, a plume of fire and smoke split the Florida sky. The Space Shuttle Challenger, carrying seven people and the attention of classrooms across the United States, had broken apart in full view of television cameras. Four decades later, Challenger is remembered not only for the lives lost, but for the warning…
Read MoreNASA Releases 3I/ATLAS Images – But Is It Too Late?
NASA has released the previously withheld images of interstellar object 3I/ATLAS, dismissing any speculation about it being alien technology. As the US government reopens after its longest shutdown in the country’s history, NASA has published the close-up images taken of 3I/ATLAS by its Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) between 11 September and 2 October. NASA…
Read More3IATLAS: Life In The Misinformation Age
Interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is continuing to cause worldwide concern and wild speculation as it traces a curious trajectory across through space. 3I/ATLAS has been the subject of intense astronomical research and media scrutiny since July when it was first observed by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) in Chile. Only the third interstellar object…
Read MoreThat’s No Moon: Earth Welcomes New Quasi-Moon
Earth will have a new travelling companion in orbit for the next few decades. As interstellar object 3I/ATLAS disappears from observable sight behind the Sun, NASA has confirmed that an asteroid named 2025 PN7 has become a quasi-moon to Earth. In a rare cosmic occurrence, the asteroid will share the planet’s orbit until 2083.…
Read More3I/ATLAS Rich In Carbon Dioxide
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has made its first observations of interstellar object 3I/ATLAS, revealing the comet contains an unusually high level of carbon dioxide. Initial observations of 3I/ATLAS by JWST suggest it has one of the highest ratios of carbon dioxide (CO2) to water (H2O) ever recorded in a comet. These first observations…
Read MoreInterstellar Overdrive
The discovery of a massive interstellar object travelling at phenomenal speed towards our Sun has thrown astrophysicists, ufologists and tin-foil hat conspiracy theorists alike into speculative overdrive. The object, known as 3I/ATLAS, is said to most likely be a comet and it is only the third time in history astronomers have discovered an interstellar object…
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