Even the universe is drowning in garbage. The American space agency Nasa is currently tracking around 20,000 pieces of waste materials, spent rocket parts, broken satellites and tons of other waste larger than a tennis ball. All these objects are moving in space at a speed of 27,360 km/h. In addition, we list about 500,000 other pieces of garbage between the size of a tennis ball and a marble. Where does this lead?
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Women have played one of the key roles in the history of the space program. Nevertheless, their stories are too often silenced. Recently, the movie Hidden Figures said something, and now the Danish toy manufacturer Lego is also paying tribute to female astronauts, engineers and scientists and their contribution.
The American space agency NASA was founded in 1958, which means that this year marks 60 years of operation. On the occasion of this jubilee, she presented to the public a watch that you probably did not imagine.
Available on Apple TV+, the series "For All Mankind" takes us to an alternate history where the Soviets defeat the Americans in the race to the moon. Created by Ronald D. Moore along with Ben Nedivi and Matt Wolpert, this intriguing series explores what would happen if the space race never ended. This is the best series for SFCI fans.
Earth seems like a big planet, but the truth is that it is just a drop in the ocean when we put it next to the whole universe. This is still a big unknown, although we have managed to compile a map and are already feeling the terrain far from our home. But if we still don't know if there is life on other planets, we do know that the home of humanity is actually a relatively small space compared to other bodies in the universe.
Every year, The Royal Observatory Greenwich launches a competition for the best photograph of space. Considering the prestige and complexity of the project, we can imagine that a lot of exceptional photos arrive in their inbox, and the selection is certainly not an easy task. Here are the best space photos of 2017.
It's hard for us mere mortals to imagine what life is like on a space station. That is why some details about the everyday life of astronauts surprise us all the more.
The evenings are coming, when we can once again lie in the middle of the meadow and watch the stars under the mild sky. In order to be even more excited about what we are observing, it is worth reading and remembering some facts about the universe.
Professionals in the field of architecture are usually involved in planning the construction of new structures on Earth. Since there have been speculations for many years that we might one day live on Mars, some of them have decided to cross the line.
No, these are not the spacesuits from the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, this is a new model of clothing for astronauts from the American space agency Nasa. The new spacesuit is named Boeing Starliner, after the spacecraft that astronauts will use for trips to space in the near future.
A planet only 40 light-years away was discovered by NASA with the Spitzer Space Telescope. These orbit the star TRAPPIST-1. Of the seven planets in this system, as many as three meet the characteristics that life could exist on them, or that all the conditions for the formation of life are met.
When we ever look up at the sky at night, we are usually only aware that we are part of the universe and that we are in the universe. But far more astonishing is the fact that the universe is within us. Therefore, when you look at the sky and feel small - because we humans are small, and the universe is infinitely large - we should really feel big, because our atoms came from the stars. From the stars that, when they disintegrated like a dandelion that we "blow", scattered their core across the galaxy. The core is rich in oxygen, carbon, nitrogen and other ingredients important for life.