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From Alcor to Zappafrank: How the stars and other celestial objects got their names If you step out the door on a clear, dark night at this time of year, you’ll find the great constellation called Ursa Major high in the sky below Polaris, the pole star. You might even be able to pick out a small star there, in the middle of the handle of the Big Dipper. It’s called Alcor, a binary star paired with the nearby, brighter Mizar, Arabic for “cloak.” In Arabic, the former star is called al-Kh...

How stars, planets, constellations and other celestial objects get their names CNN 1 hr ago © CNN/Getty Images/Shutterstock If you step out the door on a clear, dark night at this time of year, youll find the great constellation called Ursa Major high in the sky below Polaris, the pole star. You might even be able to pick out a small star there, in the middle of the handle of the Big Dipper. Its called Alcor, a binary star paired with the nearby, brighter Mizar, Arabic for "cloak." In Arab...

After nearly five years in space, NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer – OSIRIS-REx – spacecraft is on its way back to Earth with an abundance of rocks and dust from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu. On May 10 at 3:23 p.m., the spacecraft fired its main engines full throttle for seven minutes – its most significant maneuver since it arrived at Bennu in 2018. This burn thrust the spacecraft away from the asteroid at 600...

OSIRIS-REx Heads For Earth Concept Image: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft has started its return journey after almost five years in space. The trip is expected to take 2.5 years with OSIRIS-REx currently due to reach Earth on Sept. 24, 2023. As previously reported by AVweb, the spacecraft touched down briefly on asteroid Bennu last October, successfully collecting more tha...

Homecoming: NASAs OSIRIS-REx spacecraft heads back for Earth with asteroid sample The spacecraft is due to reach Earth on September 24, 2023, after orbiting the Sun twice. Washington: After nearly five years in space, NASAs Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft is on its way back to Earth with an abundance of rocks and dust from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu, the US space agency said. The spacecraft is due to reach Earth...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Is Racing Back to Earth With a Scoop of Asteroid Illustration: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center OSIRIS-REx, a NASA spacecraft tasked with collecting rocks and dust from a nearby asteroid named Bennu, is coming back home after almost five years away. The spacecraft, officially named Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer, officially fired its engines to begin its Earthward journey on May 10. Its return trip will take...

It also helped understand more about its rubble-pile-like consistency and surface terrain. NASA, in a note on its website, says that the asteroids terrain turned out to be much rockier and more rugged than initially expected from the observations of the ground-based telescope. The spacecraft, which embarked on its return journey on May 10, 2021, is expected to jettison the sealed capsule containing the sample and send it onto a trajectory to touch down in the Utah desert on September 24, 2023. ...

Nasa's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has now started its return journey back to Earth, complete with cargo of samples and data collected by sensors produced by aer

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NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Is Headed Home With a Huge Asteroid Sample By Ryan Whitwam on May 12, 2021 at 7:30 am This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is heading home. After a successful visit to the asteroid Bennu that lasted more than two years, the mission broke orbit today and set course for Earth. Most robotic missions are a one-way affair, but OSIRIS-REx wasn’t going to an asteroid just to look aroun...