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Closer Look: Earth Exceeded 1.5℃ Temperature Increase
NOAA climate data The numbers are in. 2024 was the hottest year on record, and global average temperatures were up 1.5℃ compared to pre-industrial levels. This increase is what scientists have been saying we must avoid if at all possible, and now that we’re here,...
2024 PT: That’s No Moon – That’s a Piece of a Moon!
Asteroid 2024 PT5's orbit around the Sun (image credit: NASA) Understanding our world and the universe beyond requires a lot of observation to be combined with a lot of knowledge and amazing creativity. Last year, a potentially hazardous object, cataloged as 2024 PT5,...
Ordering Enough Water for Early Planet Earth
artist's depiction of planets colliding. While major asteroid and comet impacts have often been devastating for life on Earth, life on Earth wouldn’t be here without impacts that occurred early in our world’s history. As the story goes, Due to our planet’s...
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Yellow Alert: Asteroid YR4 On Orbit with 2.25% Chance of Collision
Every once in a while, the Universe likes to remind us it has the ability to kill us. Meet asteroid 2024 YR4. Discovered in late December, it could just hit the Earth on Dec 22, 2032. Discovered by the ATLAS survey, it was initially calculated to have a 1.3%...
iSpace Has a Rubric for Mission 2 Success
Over the past year, we've seen a variety of different commercial missions that do things I wouldn't necessarily consider successful. We've seen lunar landers unintentionally practice gymnastics by standing on their heads and flipping over sideways. We've seen...
Protecting Historic Sites on Earth, Moon, and Mars
Dominion Observatory in Ottawa Our planet is dotted with old observatories and astronomical research centers that are no longer capable of doing science. Either their equipment is too small, their skies too bright, or both. Both is always an option. I've been lucky...
Don Pettit Proves Stars Can Be Tracked From ISS
Photo taken by Astronaut Don Pettit from ISS: Milky Way with Zodiacal light and Starlink satellites streaking by. Astronaut Don Pettit is, among many other things, an amateur astronomer. One of the most delightful moments of my life with getting to hear him talk to...
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Crew 10 Delayed Until March 2025
Boeing Crew Flight Test (CFT) astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams in T-38 pre-flight activities at Ellington Field. Photo Date: August 16, 2022. Location: Ellington Field, Hangar 276/Flight Line. Photographer: Robert Markowitz In some late breaking news, NASA...
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