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5 days ago · 1995 FOX Space: Above and Beyond Commercial #90snostalgia #allthings90s #ilovethe90s #1990s #90skid #90sstuff #allthings1990s #90s #90skids #90sthings #90swa...
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4 days ago · Scientists find where matter 'waterfalls' into black holes. "Think of it like a river turning into a waterfall — hitherto, we have been looking at the river. This is our first sight of the ...
4 days ago · Scientists who study Mars are worried that the mission will be downsized. Scientists who don’t study Mars—and a few who do—are frustrated, because MSR consumes so much of NASA’s budget ...
4 days ago · Located a mere 200 miles above Earth, the ISS is in a constant state of free fall, which explains the astronauts' ability to float. Valerie Neal, a curator of space history, puts it succinctly ...
5 days ago · Low Earth orbit is home to the International Space Station (ISS), the Hubble Space Telescope, many military observation satellites, and more than 5,000 of Elon Musk's Starlink internet satellites.
4 days ago · Earth hosts seven known quasi-moons, an unknown number of mini-moons, and maybe, sometimes, two ghost moons. Though none of these pseudo-moons are as big or influential as Earth’s one true natural satellite — the Moon — they are still valuable for science and exploration. Quasi- and mini-moons offer promising targets for future space ...
2 days ago · The usual English proper name for Earth's natural satellite is simply Moon, with a capital M. The noun moon is derived from Old English mōna, which (like all its Germanic cognates) stems from Proto-Germanic *mēnōn, which in turn comes from Proto-Indo-European *mēnsis "month" (from earlier *mēnōt, genitive *mēneses) which may be related to the verb "measure" (of time).
