Interstellar_distances

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How NASA Reestablished Communication with Voyager 1, the Farthest Spacecraft Ever

The Cleveland American 06 May 2024

Interstellar probe 1,000 AU – Scientists confirmed that 1 AU is the distance from the Sun to Earth – in the interstellar medium.

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The age of the solar sail is arriving sooner than expected

The Hill 05 May 2024

... sail would be constructed of and the shape of the sail that would ensure it would survive long enough to accelerate the probe so that it might cross interstellar distances within a human lifespan.

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Astronomers inspect population of young stellar objects in open cluster NGC 346

Phys Dot Org 03 May 2024

They are usually detected within dense molecular clusters, which are abundant in molecular gas and interstellar particles. At a distance of some 202,000 light years away from Earth, NGC 346 is a young ...

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Space laser transmission strikes Earth from 140 million miles away: NASA

New York Post 29 Apr 2024

NASA wanted to show the potential for laser communications to be conducted across interstellar distances, allowing for high bandwidth and a much speedier connection — from 10 to 100 times faster ...

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This Week in Space 108: Starliner: Better Late Than Never?

Twit TV 26 Apr 2024

We've been waiting... and waiting... zero ... Headlines. Voyager's Return. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory confirms reestablishment of contact with Voyager 1 after five months of silence, overcoming communication challenges over vast interstellar distances.

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Recoding Voyager 1—NASA’s interstellar explorer is finally making sense again

Ars Technica 23 Apr 2024

Engineers have partially restored a 1970s-era computer on NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft after five months of long-distance troubleshooting, building confidence that humanity's first interstellar probe can eventually resume normal operations ... Comments .

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Opinion: Jack Sparrow Was Never the Main Character

Houston Press 15 Apr 2024

Good ... Many people can’t imagine a Pirates film without Captain Jack ... He doesn’t learn or grow much ... There is an interstellar distance between Loki’s amusing if one-dimensional actions in Thor and becoming the benevolent God of Stories in Loki Season 2 ... .

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Cepheid variable star with record period of pulsation discovered in Milky Way

Pravda 09 Apr 2024

Given that their pulsation periods are closely related to their luminosity, astronomers use these stars to measure interstellar and intergalactic distances ... ....

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Astronomers discover the longest-period classical Cepheid in our galaxy

Phys Dot Org 08 Apr 2024

Given that their periods of variation are closely related to their luminosity, astronomers use them to measure interstellar and intergalactic distances ... The distance to OGLE-GD-CEP-1884 was measured to be about 14,500 light years.

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Exodus’ Time Dilation is “All About Hard Choices and Long-Term Consequences,” Narrative Director Says

GamingBolt 07 Apr 2024

Most recently, the studio shed light on what will serve as the central hook for the game- time dilation, and how every time players travel long interstellar distances, when they come back home, years ...

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Radio Astronomy: Why study it? What can it teach us about finding life beyond Earth?

Universe Today 01 Apr 2024

Unlike other forms of light that could carry the evidence of life beyond our solar system, radio waves can propagate unobscured by interstellar gas and dust, making them easily detectable across vast distances.”.

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Netflix series '3 Body Problem' poses some big sci-fi questions

Pittsburgh Tribune Review 25 Mar 2024

Fermi’s question. So where is everybody? ... One reason could be the difficulty of communicating on an interstellar scale, even if that distance is small in universal terms, like the handful of light years to our next closest star, Alpha Centauri.

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The 10 Best Original PlayStation Cut Scenes

Houston Press 18 Mar 2024

Warning. Some Spoilers for Old Games. I've been playing Final Fantasy VII Rebirth lately, and it's wonderful ... There is an interstellar distance between the 16-bit world of, say, Chrono Trigger and a PlayStation-era Final Fantasy ... 10 ... 9 ... 6 ... 5 ... 4 ... .

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Are Andromeda and the Milky Way Already Exchanging Stars?

Universe Today 13 Mar 2024

The reality is different though, stars do move but due to the vast distances in interstellar space, that motion is largely not noticeable. There are exceptions such as Barnard’s star in the constellation Ophiuchus ... ESA/ATG medialab; Milky Way ... Source ... .

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Variable star V708 Car has an unusual chemical composition, study finds

Phys Dot Org 27 Feb 2024

Given that their periods of variation are closely related to their luminosity, astronomers use them to measure interstellar and intergalactic distances ... However, although V708 Car has been known for two decades, it remains a poorly studied variable ... V.