Pink supermoon is just hours away - how to see it
The pink supermoon will be visible in the early hours of Tuesday April 27 and later in the day too
13:59, 26 APR 2021
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The first pink supermoon of 2021 is now just hours away and people in Coventry and Warwickshire should hopefully be able to get a good look at it.
Lyrid meteor shower: When best to see incredible sight with 18 shooting stars expected every hour
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An incredible show will take place in the skies above us on Thursday in the form of the Lyrid meteor shower.
Washington University to develop lunar resource utilization technology for NASA
Newswise Power and in-situ resources are two things humans will need as they explore deep space. How future astronauts use these commodities depends on the technology at hand. That’s why NASA is looking to U.S. universities including Washington University in St. Louis for lunar-focused research to bring about advancements in in-situ resource utilization and sustainable power solutions.
NASA announced March 8 that it has selected scientists at Washington University to build a rover-mounted drill sensor to quantify the 3D distribution of water at the moon’s south pole. A laser probe located at the bottom of the drill, capable of analyzing regolith, would quantify the amount of water and other chemicals present beneath the surface.
The Spiral of the Southern Pinwheel
A camera designed to reveal the deepest secrets of our Universe captures the Southern Pinwheel galaxy in glorious detail
CosmoView Episode 21: The Spiral of the Southern Pinwheel
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Acknowledgment: M. Soraisam (University of Illinois)
Image processing: Travis Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage), Mahdi Zamani & Davide de Martin
Nicknamed the Southern Pinwheel, Messier 83 (or NGC 5236) is a stunning face-on spiral galaxy located about 15 million light-years away in the southern constellation of Hydra. Its spiral arms are lined with dark lanes of dust and peppered with reddish, star-forming clouds of hydrogen gas. One of the deepest images ever taken of the Southern Pinwheel (combining more than 11 hours of exposure time), this view was captured by the Dark Energy Camera (DECam), which was built by the US Department of Energy (DOE) and is mounted on the Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-Americ