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Autumn astronomyBy: James Smith Autumn is my favourite time for observing the night skies. The evenings are cooler, but not yet too cold. The skies get darker earlier, so we don’t have to stay up so late, and we have the best objects to see in autumn. Some of our favourite Southern Hemisphere constellations are in full display. The Southern Cross is easily seen, as well as Orion (including the ‘Pot’) and Canis Major. Taurus, Cancer and Gemini are also visible in autumn. The first two rea...

(l-r) Pesquet, McArthur, Kimbrough, and Hoshide, wearing SpaceX spacesuits during a dress rehearsal. — Nasa/AFP SpaceX is preparing to carry four astronauts to a crowded International Space Station on Thursday, in the second routine mission since the United States resumed crewed space flight, and the first with a European. Liftoff is planned for 6.11am Eastern Time (1011 GMT) on April 22, from Nasa’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The mission, called Crew-2, involves US astronauts Shane K...

SpaceX will launch four astronauts from three different agencies to a crowded International Space Station on Thursday, according to NASA. This is the second routine mission since crewed space flight resumed from US soil, and the first NASA launch with three different agencies in nearly 20 years. Liftoff for the Crew-2 mission is planned for 11:11 BST on April 22, from NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida, with two NASA, one ESA and one JAXA astronauts. The mission involves Shane Kimbrough and...

AFP Liftoff is planned for 6:11 am Eastern Time on April 22, from NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The mission is called Crew-2. This handout photo released by NASA and taken on April 18, 2021 shows (from L) ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Thomas Pesquet, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Akihiko Hoshide, and NASA astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur as they...

Story highlights The mission, called Crew-2, involves US astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur, along with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)s Akihiko Hoshide, and the European Space Agency (ESA)s Thomas Pesquet.  SpaceX is preparing to carry four astronauts to a crowded International Space Station on Thursday, in the second routine mission since the United States resumed a crewed space flight and the first with a European. Liftoff is planned for 6:11 am Eastern Time (1011 G...

ESA and FAO unite to tackle food security and more With ESA positioned as a world-class provider of Earth observation data and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) leading international efforts to defeat hunger, the two organisations have teamed up to exploit their particular fields of expertise to better address major global issues such as food security, and to take further advantage of the digital transformation in agriculture. Formalising this new cooperation, ESA’s A...

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updated: Apr 20 2021, 11:47 ist SpaceX is preparing to carry four astronauts to a crowded International Space Station on Thursday, in the second routine mission since the United States resumed crewed space flight, and the first with a European. Liftoff is planned for 6:11 am Eastern Time (1441 IST) on April 22, from NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The mission, called Crew-2, involves US astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur, along with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA...

  “Not only does God play dice but… he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen,” said Stephen Hawking about the paradoxical physics of black Holes. Welcome to the bizarre quantum world of “strange metals” –a new state of matter. Share Remarkable Properties with Black Holes “The fact that we call them strange metals should tell you how well we understand them. Strange metals share remarkable properties with black holes, opening exciting new directions for theoretical physi...

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