Articles by Immanuel Jotham

NASA says SpaceX's 'load-and-go' launch procedure looks safe for crew launches

If the rocket is carrying a human crew, fuel will be loaded after astronauts are strapped in.

Aug 20, 2018

Carbon monoxide clouds from California wildfires spreading throughout US, says NASA

Over the weeks covered by the NASA study, carbon monoxide clouds that are high in the atmosphere is seen gradually drifting east.

Aug 17, 2018

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SpaceX: Look at the interior view of upcoming Crew Dragon capsule

The Crew Dragon, placed on a Falcon 9 will launch a crew of scientists and engineers to the International Space Station as early as February 2019.

Aug 16, 2018

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New Horizons is the fifth spacecraft to traverse the Kuiper Belt, but the first to conduct a scientific study of this mysterious region beyond Neptune

NASA's spacecraft detects massive hydrogen wall that surrounds entire solar system

New Horizons is currently in the Kuiper Belt, waiting for a flyby of a rock roughly 30 kilometers across, after which it will carry on towards the Oort clouds.

Aug 13, 2018

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There are colorful stars galore, but likely no habitable planets, inside the globular star cluster

New study says Omega Centauri, mini-version of solar system but no sign of life

The stars in that part of the Milky Way are packed in too tightly, so they are likely to interact with each other every million years or so.

Aug 11, 2018

Space Universe

Ganymede's electromagnetic waves are more powerful than Jupiter's

Considering how powerful the electromagnetic field is around Ganymede, scientists are questioning what kind of damage it can do to a spacecraft that gets close to it.

Aug 9, 2018

Space

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Want to make own Mars rover? This blueprint will help you

Plans for a small, portable version of the Curiosity rover that is relatively easy to build can be downloaded from the JPL site.

Aug 8, 2018

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Where stargazers can see full Moon, Mercury and Venus this month

As the red planet retreats, this month's biggest attraction, apart from the Moon itself will be Mercury and Venus.

Aug 6, 2018

Shenzhou-11 spacecraft returns after China's longest-ever manned space mission

All three of humanity's space exploration targets in one image from Earth

The image with the Moon, Mars, and the ISS are seen together was taken near Mount Remarkable National Park, Australia.

Aug 4, 2018

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This six-panel graphic illustrates a possible scenario for the powerful blast seen 170 years ago from the star system Eta Carinae

NASA recreates how Milky Way Star fought with siblings 170 years ago

Though it is not possible to travel back to the 1800s to once again see and record the actual eruption, a "rebroadcast" of sorts was captured by scientists, about 170 years later, now.

Aug 4, 2018

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Prehistoric mass graves could be the result of tsunamis

Researchers studied coastal mass burial sites at the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu in the Pacific as well as in Orkney and Shetland in the UK.

Aug 3, 2018

'Hope Diamond' was born hundreds of kilometres below Indian mine

Blue diamonds had to go through hellish heat and pressure, about a thousand km deep below the surface, for hundreds of years before they are spewed to the surface.

Aug 3, 2018

Secret of how Great Pyramid of Giza was built revealed

Great Pyramid of Giza built to concentrate all electromagnetic energy on inner chambers, says study

Researchers say that this property of the pyramids is most likely a happy accident than a design feature.

Aug 2, 2018

Artist's rendering of asteroids and space dust

China wants to bring down asteroid to Earth for study

Taking a cue from the American Cowboy style, the spacecraft will throw a large bag made of small robots over the asteroid and drag it down to Earth.

Aug 2, 2018

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Mars is thousand times drier than Earth's driest place; Is life on Red Planet possible?

In the Atacama desert, microbes only exist in a dormant state, barely surviving.

Jul 31, 2018

New research says black holes are growing 'fuzzballs' and might not have a ring of fire

Black holes can be likened to giant balls of string, researchers have said. These balls of string gather additional material as new objects like stars and planets get sucked in.

Jul 31, 2018

Space

Listen to the sounds of a star's supernova explosion

Watch and listen to the sounds of a star's supernova explosion that leads to the creation of a black hole

Jul 29, 2018

Space

Lunar Eclipse: Find out best places to view longest Blood Moon of this century on July 27

On Friday night, the Moon will fall under the shadow of Earth for a full 103 minutes, and during this time, the usually white moon will look red and ochre.

Jul 27, 2018

NASA's planetary defence programme is now 20-years-old

The story of how NASA started and now operates the most precise and detailed map of all asteroids and comets that could potentially strike Earth.

Jul 25, 2018

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Researchers found oldest bread ever baked by humans

This finding suggests that farming itself might have come from the drive to get better ingredients so that bread and cooking, in general, could be better.

Jul 19, 2018

Archaeology

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