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NASA’S Lucy Spacecraft Will Carry a Time Capsule for Future Earthlings
NASA engineers installed a time capsule on the Lucy spacecraft late last week, intended for future astro-archaeologists to retrieve and interpret. The time capsule is a plaque that includes messages from Nobel Laureates and musicians, among others, as well as a depiction of the solar system’s configuration on October 16, 2021, the date the spacecraft…
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NASA Releases Remixed Version Of Iconic ‘Pale Blue Dot’ Photo
A humbling photo of Earth taken by the Voyager 1 probe from a distance of 6 billion kilometres has been reprocessed by NASA to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the image.
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Half Of Our Galaxy Might Have Come From Other Galaxies
Image Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble Space Telescope; Processing: Douglas Gardner Any Carl Sagan fan knows you’re made of star stuff. Protons don’t decay into any other particles (as far as we can tell), so you can reliably assume that most bits of you have been around since a second after the Big Bang. But if…
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What You’d Hear If You Found Voyager’s Golden Record In Deep Space
It’s been 38 years since NASA launched a gold record containing sounds and sights of Earth into space. Yesterday, NASA made it easier to hear those noises for yourself. On Soundcloud.