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Sputnik’s Anniversary – Looking Back at 66 Years of Spaceflight

October 4 marks the 66th anniversary of the launch of Sputnik, the first thing that humans ever successfully sent into space. Anniversaries feel like an appropriate time for a good retrospective, and the Sputnik anniversary is a big one for us space nerds...
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When the Sky Goes Dark: a Deep Dive into Eclipses

Eclipses are awesome! That’s it, that’s the post!Okay, that’s very clearly not the whole post. Eclipses occur a couple of times a year, but often difficult for any particular person in any particular spot to see them.
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Possibly the Biggest Discovery Webb Has Ever Made?

NASA announced that the James Webb Space Telescope may (or may not) have found evidence of life. What it found could be only rather interesting, or it could be one of those moments that goes down in science history.
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Chasing the Rainbow: All About Multi-wavelength Astronomy

The X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission successfully launched. In honor of the launch, I thought it would be fun to take a look at just why we look at space in different wavelengths and the kinds of telescopes we need to do it.
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The Trouble with Space Junk

I remember when I first saw the movie “Gravity” in theaters. It’s full of inaccuracies, but it’s a fantastically-executed story. It also has a real and genuine problem that companies and space agencies around the world are grappling with: space debris.
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Far Out: The Many Milestones of Voyager 2

The Voyager mission consists of two spacecraft, the very creatively-named Voyagers 1 and 2. And Voyager 2 is both about to celebrate a whole series of anniversaries this week and was recently in the news, so let’s take a look at this very, very, very...
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Earendel, Our Most Distant Star

Here is another new discovery from the James Webb Space Telescope. Webb is not just showing completely new things but allows us to deepen our understanding of things of the most distant star we’ve ever seen.
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The Curiosity Rover

With new discoveries pouring in from our Martian spacecraft and humanity finally putting itself on the road to Mars with Project Artemis, Mars is big news these days. And one of our Martian explorers is celebrating a birthday this week, so let’s hop on...
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Why Can I See the Moon During the Day?

The Moon is most well known for lighting up the night sky but sometimes you may catch a glimpse of it during the day. Learn more about the relationship between the Moon, Earth, and Sun.
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Getting Hyped for OSIRIS-REx’s Return

The space topic that Americans are most concerned about is asteroids: finding them, studying them, learning how to deflect them. So let’s talk about an asteroid mission with a major milestone coming up that I am very excited about.
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How Did Earth Get a Moon?

Scientists have a few theories about how Earth got its Moon. Dive into these different theories and learn more about how our Moon it formed.
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Are Sci-Fi Authors Scientists or Writers?

There are so many amazing writers of science fiction. When they were young, did they dream of bring famous authors, or amazing scientists? Author Katie Slivensky shares her journey through the worlds of science and fiction.
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How Will We Get to Mars?

Currently, no human has travelled to Mars, or even beyond the Moon. Learn about the challenges of getting humans to Mars and maybe even how we can solve them.
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How Will We Live On Mars?

Explore the ways that scientists and engineers are starting to plan ahead for human space travel. Discover what challenges they are considering while planning for humans to visit, or even live on, the planet Mars.
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How to Design a Mars Rover!

Engineers have created several rovers to explore Mars. The goal: learn as much as possible about our neighboring planet. Explore how engineers design rovers to answer questions about Mars.