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Ground penetrating radar observations of the contact between the western delta and the crater floor of Jezero crater, Mars – publication
The delta deposits in Jezero crater contain sedimentary records of potentially habitable conditions on Mars, NASA’s Perseverance rover is exploring the Jezero western delta with a suite of instruments that include the RIMFAX ground penetrating radar, which provides continuous subsurface images that probe up to 20 meters below the rover.
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T Coronae Borealis : Nova Explosion 2024
Star system T Coronae Borealis (T CrB) located 3,000 light-years away from Earth, is predicted to become visible to the unaided eye soon.
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Babelsberger Sternennächte : Die Sonne als Chronometer physikalischer Prozesse (TV webcast)
Die Babelsberger Sternennächte finden online statt, in der Regel gibt es immer am 3. Donnerstag im Monat einen neuen Vortrag einer Wissenschaftlerin oder eines Wissenschaftlers des AIP, der ab 20 Uhr auf dem YouTube-Kanal von Urknall, Weltall und das Leben ausgestrahlt wird.
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J0529-4351 : Brightest and fastest-growing: astronomers identify record-breaking quasar / The accretion of a solar mass per day by a 17-billion solar mass black hole – publication
Using the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have characterised a bright quasar, finding it to be not only the brightest of its kind, but also the most luminous object ever observed.
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Nova-C-missie, IM-1 met lander Odysseus – landing
De eerste Nova-C-missie, IM-1 met lander Odysseus, is op 15 februari 2024 met een Falcon 9 gelanceerd en was op 22 februari 2024
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ISS accupakket stort mogelijk neer op Aarde
Volgens het Duitse Bundesamt für Bevölkerungsschutz und Katastrophenhilfe zal er een afgedankt accupakket van het Internationale Ruimtestation (ISS) zal naar verwachting de atmosfeer binnenkomen en (deels) opbranden, mogelijk kunnen brokstukken in Midden-Europa terechtkomen.
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World Contact Day 2024
World Contact Day was first declared in March 1953 by an organization called the International Flying Saucer Bureau (IFSB), as a day on which all IFSB members would attempt to send a telepathic message into space.
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First Sagittarius A* Event Horizon Telescope Results VII / VIII – publication
After delivering the first images of the event horizon surrounding the Milky Way's supermassive black hole (Sgr A*), the Event Horizon Telescope has taken an even deeper look.
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Meteorenzwerm κ-Serpentiden in april 2024
De meteorenzwerm κ-Serpentiden bereikt op vrijdag 5 april 2024, rond 10 uur, zijn maximum. Zelfs wanneer de radiant in het zenit zou staan, zouden er van deze zwerm naar verwachting gemiddeld slechts zo'n 4 meteoren per uur vallen.
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Totale Zonsverduistering op 8 april / Total Solar Eclipse (TV webcast)
De totale zonsverduistering van maandag 8 april 2024 zal zich in een lange strook op het vasteland voortbewegen over de landen Mexico, Verenigde Staten en Canada.
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The Sky at Night – Space Rock Return (TV BBC Four)
The Sky at Night is a monthly documentary television programme on astronomy produced by the BBC. The show had the
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#HumanSpaceFlightDay / Dag van de Ruimtevaart 2024
The UN General Assembly, in its resolution A/RES/65/271 of 7 April 2011, declared 12 April as the International Day of Human Space Flight “to celebrate each year at the international level the beginning of the space era for mankind, reaffirming the important contribution of space science and technology in achieving sustainable development goals and increasing the well-being of States and peoples, as well as ensuring the realization of their aspiration to maintain outer space for peaceful purposes.”