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India's Chandrayaan-2 Mission Will Take 7 Weeks to Reach the Moon — Here's Why By Meghan Bartels 19 hours ago Spaceflight CLOSEVolume 0% India's Chandrayaan-2 mission is now on its way to the moon, but it has a slow journey ahead: The rover and lander won't touch down until early September

Everything You Need to Know About Hypothetical Sun Megastructure, the Dyson Sphere If feasible, the Dyson Sphere has the potential to harness the power of the sun and send it back to earth to power all of civilization. Remember when scientists discovered Tabby’s Star? Also known as KIC 8462852,

A satellite doesn't necessarily have to be a tin can spinning through space. The word "satellite" is more general than that: it means a smaller, space-based object moving in a loop (an orbit) around a larger object. The Moon is a natural satellite of Earth, for example, because gravity locks it i

50 years ago, hashtag#Apollo11 launched from Cape Canaveral and landed successfully on the moon four days later. This week, we celebrate that legacy with renewed vigor to stay on the moon sustainably and permanently. hashtag#Apollo50th

⭕ 99 percent of our solar system's mass is the sun. ⭕ It rains diamonds on Jupiter and Saturn. ⭕ The Apollo astronauts' footprints on the moon will probably stay there for at least 100 million years. ⭕ More energy from the sun hits Earth every hour than the planet uses in a year. ⭕ If two pieces of

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14 Indian Scientists Who Changed The World. And Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Them! by Shreya PareekMay 23, 2014, 1:47 pm Science is an important part of our everyday life, even more so than we notice. From our fancy gadgets to the the technologies we can’t live without, from our humble li

What Are Black Holes? Simulated view of a black hole in front of the Large Magellanic Cloud. (Image: © Alain R. | Wikimedia Commons) Black holes are some of the strangest and most fascinating objects in outer space. They're extremely dense, with such strong gravitational attraction that even l

The $1.1 billion Juno mission launched toward Jupiter in August 2011 and arrived in orbit around the planet in July 2016. Since then, it's examined the planet during its long, looping orbits to learn about its interior, cloud patterns and weather, magnetic field, radiaton and more. The aurora is ca

At 2:43 pm today, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) successfully launched a GSLV Mk III rocket carrying the Chandrayaan 2 stack of instruments. This is a historic mission that will attempt to land a lander and rover on the Moon’s surface on September 7. If everything goes well, India wi

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Learners at Presentation Convent School had hands on experience of Being an Astronaut program. Learners about Telescopes, Satellites, Rockets.. Making own Rockets and launching them was fun.

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