This Week in Rocket History: STS-31 and the Hubble Space Telescope
This Week in Rocket History, we’re going back 31 years to April 24, 1990, and one of the most important missions of the Space Shuttle program: the Hubble Space Telescope.
Ingenuity Helicopter Flies and Lands!
On April 19, NASA’s Mars Helicopter Ingenuity successfully performed the first-ever powered flight from the surface of another planet.
A History of Remote Sensing and Google Earth Gets an Upgrade
How does remote sensing work when it comes to taking pictures of Earth? We look at the history of the field in the wake of Google Earths’s new Timelapse feature.
Soyuz MS-17 Brings Three Astronauts Back to Earth
The Soyuz MS-17 spacecraft returned two Earth on April 17, carrying three astronauts home, including NASA’s Kate Rubin.
Blue Origin’s New Shepard Completes Successful Test Launch
Blue Origin’s New Shepard completed a test launch on April 14, complete with Mannequin Skywalker and stand-in astronauts to practice boarding and exiting.
Supe Culture Built City in Relation to Landscape and Astronomy
The ancient city of Caral in Peru was mostly oriented parallel to the Supe river; however, several large and important buildings were oriented to the full Moon and June solstice.
The Relationship Between Glaciation and Mountain Building in the Andes
In a recent, researchers theorized that a feedback loop existed between tectonic deformation and the climate about 13 to 7 million years ago in the North Patagonian Andes of South America.
Orion Nebula Observations Suggests Stars Grow Competitively
New observations find that the competition for resources occurs at the earliest stages of star formation, with dense cores already stealing materials to reach a size that reflects their final mass.
A Trio of Novae Visible in Night Sky
Currently, three different novae are visible to small telescopes, and all three systems appear to be classical novae: they are made up of a white dwarf star and a lower mass companion star.
NASA’s NICER Probes the Squeezability of Neutron Stars
A comparison of one large neutron star and one average neutron star found that the sizes don’t match either core composition hypothesis, hinting at new states of matter.
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