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In 1946, a captured Nazi V-2 rocket launched from White Sands carried a 35mm motion picture camera to an altitude of 105 kilometres, and the grainy black-and-white frames it brought back became the first photographs of Earth taken from space " years before the camera's own engineers had a name for the boundary it had crossed.
8+ hour, 44+ min ago (37+ words) {"content":"On October 24, 1946, a 35mm De Vry motion picture camera bolted into the nose of a captured German V-2 rocket clicked through a single frame every second-and-a-half as the missile arced...
Carl Sagan's team considered sending a nude photograph of a man and a pregnant woman on the Voyager Golden Record, but after the controversy over the nude Pioneer plaque, the final record used a silhouette instead
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Radio view of rare supernova tracks dying star's final decade
4+ mon, 3+ week ago (427+ words) The research team used the National Science Foundation's Very Large Array radio telescope in New Mexico to monitor faint radio emission from the supernova for about 18 months after the explosion. By tracking how the radio signal changed over time, they…...
NASA shares SPHEREx sky survey data weekly to enable global cosmic research
11+ mon, 2+ week ago (245+ words) "Because we're looking at everything in the whole sky, almost every area of astronomy can be addressed by SPHEREx data," said Rachel Akeson, who leads the mission's Science Data Center at Caltech's IPAC. SPHEREx builds on the legacy of NASA's…...