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“To get the best shots, you need an equatorial mount because it follows the rotation of the sky.” Whether you are beginner or expert, a good mount makes the difference ! Altazimuth mount, fork equatorial mount, german equatorial mount… What is the right telescope mount for YOU ? Because there is a wide variety…
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Virgin Galactic to move to Spaceport America – News of May 14, 2019 – Virgin Galactic will soon be offering customers a few minutes in space for the price of a home. The company has demonstrated such an inhabited flight several times in recent months. To move on to market its project, Virgin Galactic will…
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New Shepard is a fully reusable rocket system consisting of a capsule and a booster. The booster returns to land thanks to its rocket engine while the capsule is equipped with a parachute. The vehicle’s capabilities make it possible to place the capsule in a state of microgravity for three minutes, which should seduce not…
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SpaceX mishaps hinder CCDeV program – News of May 14, 2019 – The CCDeV program entrusts private companies with the design of the future American manned spacecrafts. This program was halted a few weeks ago with the explosion during a test phase SpaceX Crew Dragon space capsule. And we just learned that the Crew Dragon…
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Triton’s geysers will be targeted by the Trident mission or other missions – News of May 12, 2019 – Thirty years ago, the Voyager 2 space probe made the unique flyby of Neptune and Triton. The trajectory of the space probe was studied to fly only 40 000 kilometers height above the largest moon in…
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The Europa Clipper mission will embark 8 scientific instruments to study Europa – News of May 12, 2019 – The Europa Clipper mission will not have a lander, but it will be specially equipped to collect a lot of data from Europa, the icy moon of Jupiter. NASA will have to carefully prepare the scientific…
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A Japanese CubeSat will impact the Moon in 2020 or 2021 – News of May 12, 2019 – Last year, CubeSats MarCO-A and MarCO-A followed InSight towards Mars. These are the first CubeSats to have made an interplanetary mission. We lost contact with them at the beginning of the year. This first success inspires all…
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“The magnification of a telescope is directly related to the diameter or aperture of the lens or of the primary mirror.” Become an amateur astronomer in the best way by buying the telescope that suits you ! Images of the universe can be found everywhere, but it is only natural for people who are interested…
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NASA will use a Falcon 9 booster for three missions – News of May 7, 2019 – Slowly but surely, SpaceX seems to convince NASA with its reuse approach. The US space agency has already used several reused Falcon 9 launchers, but for the first time it could use the same booster for three missions.…
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LandSpace unveils methane engine that will allow it to reach orbit – News of May 7, 2019 – LandSpace was not demotivated after the failure of its first orbital attempt last year. On the contrary, the Chinese company has more ambitions. LandSpace is now working on a medium-capacity methane-powered launcher, and it’s moving fast. Photos…
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LIRGO and VIRGO detect the meeting of a neutron star and a black hole – News of May 7, 2019 – In 2015, the first gravitational wave was observed, nearly a hundred years after Albert Einstein predicted their existence. Gravitational waves are oscillations in the curvature of space-time. They occur when masses are accelerated. These…
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We tried the space experience “Eclipse” by Inoui, a space adventure in virtual reality developed during 1 year by Backlight Studio. On their website, Inoui claims to offer “the best of the virtual reality game in Lille”. Well, we will not make suspense for nothing : we can only agree with them ! First surprise…
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Trident space mission to study Triton, Neptune’s Biggest Moon – News of April 30, 2019 – The outer planets of the solar system are still almost unexplored. Uranus and Neptune in particular have been stealthily flown over by the Voyager 2 space probe. A new orbiter could be sent around one of these two worlds.…
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Wormholes would not be shortcuts, on the contrary – News of April 30, 2019 – In 1915, Albert Einstein presented his theory of general relativity, a revolutionary description of gravitation. A few weeks later, he received two letters from another German physicist Karl Schwarzschild. These letters contained the first exact solution to the equations of…
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“The larger the aperture of your telescope, the better you can see double stars.” Most of people don’t know that almost 50% of the stars in the night sky are double stars or multiple stars. Double stars can either be stars which seem very close to each other due to an alignment effect from the…
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If you live in or near an city, you have surely noticed the harmful effects of light pollution on stargazing. Here are 10 tips that will help you observe the sky in an urban environment… Find a dark place Find a place in your garden that is not too polluted by street lighting and has…
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Please introduce yourself ? My name is Marcel Clemens, I was born in Cornwall, UK. I was trained as a radio astronomer at Cambridge University and worked as an astronomer for almost 20 years. How and when did your passion for space was born ? The main reason why I became interested in astronomy is…
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The LUVOIR space telescope could study exoplanets thanks to a 15-meter mirror – News of April 28, 2019 – The LUVOIR space telescope (Large UV Optical Infrared Surveyor) is currently only a project. This is one of the four concepts studied to become one of NASA’s future big telescopes. LUVOIR would work primarily on visible…
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The Chinese New Space is more and more supervised – News of April 28, 2019 – On Wednesday, April 24, China celebrated its fourth space day. This celebration has become annual throughout the country. This has been an opportunity to announce a new legal framework for Chinese New Space companies, which are more than 100.…
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Buy the NASA Archives book on taschen.com From NASA’s earliest days to current development of new space systems for the future On October 1, 1958, the world’s first civilian space agency opened for business as an emergency response to the Soviet Union’s launch of Sputnik a year earlier. Within a decade, NASA had evolved from…
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Focus on the history, current challenges and perspectives of the Space Rider – News of April 25, 2019 – The development of space shuttles to transport cargo is trendy Although very secretive, the American autonomous shuttle X-37B seems to be used regularly by the American army for long stays in space. Being able to send…
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Summer offers sumptuous views of the night sky. Here are some stellar objects to see this month. Click on your location: Northern hemisphere | Southern hemisphere Northern hemisphere Star map in July in the Northern hemisphere 1) Deneb Observation hours: all night. The star Deneb, or Alpha Cygni, is one of the brightest stars in…
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ArianeWorks is in charge of imagining the Ariane launchers of the future – News of April 23, 2019 – Europe seems already well engaged on the after Ariane 6. At the end of February, we learned the creation of ArianeWorks, a small structure which should allow to accelerate certain developments, a little like a start-up…
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