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Gemini VI Astronauts Thomas P. Stafford and Walter M. Schirra Jr.

By iftttauthorways4eu on Tue Mar 19 2024

Gemini VI astronauts Thomas P. Stafford (left), pilot, and Walter M. Schirra Jr., command pilot, are shown during suiting up exercises at Cape Kennedy, Florida. via NASA https://ift.tt/pd4MkaX

By iftttauthorways4eu on Tue Mar 19 2024

What’s that at the end of the road? The Sun. Many towns have roads that run east-west, and on two days each year, the Sun rises and sets right down the middle. Today, in some parts of the world (tomorrow in others), is one of those days: an equinox. Not only is this a day […]

By iftttauthorways4eu on Tue Mar 19 2024

A bright comet will be visible during next month’s total solar eclipse. This very unusual coincidence occurs because Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks’s return to the inner Solar System places it by chance only 25 degrees away from the Sun during Earth’s April 8 total solar eclipse. Currently the comet is just on the edge of visibility to […]

ELT and the Milky Way

By iftttauthorways4eu on Sat Mar 16 2024

The southern winter Milky Way sprawls across this night skyscape. Looking due south, the webcam view was recorded near local midnight on March 11 in dry, dark skies over the central Chilean Atacama desert. Seen below the graceful arc of diffuse starlight are satellite galaxies of the mighty Milky Way, also known as the Large […]

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