HighGeekly Search: Astronomy
Virgin Galactic Sends a Rocket Plane Into Space for a Second Time
After sending pilots to the edge of space in December, the company moved another step closer to commercial space travel with another safe flight on Friday.
20 hours ago - NY Times - 8 articles
An exoplanet with an 11-hour orbit
The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite was launched on April 18 of last year with the primary objective of discovering transiting planets smaller than Neptune around stars...
1 day ago - Phys.org
Solving the jet/cocoon riddle of a gravitational wave event
An international research team including astronomers from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, Germany, has combined radio telescopes from five continents to...
1 day ago - Phys.org
How Israel's Moon Lander Got to the Launchpad
With $100 million and a lot of volunteer labor, SpaceIL's Beresheet spacecraft could be the first privately built vessel to reach the lunar surface.
1 day ago - NY Times - 5 articles
LMC S154 is a symbiotic recurrent nova, study suggests
Astronomers have conducted observations of a symbiotic star in the Large Magellanic Cloud , known as LMC S154, which provide new insights about the nature of this object...
2 days ago - Phys.org
Habitable zone planet finder enables discovery of planets around cool stars
A new astronomical spectrograph built by a Penn State-led team of scientists provides the highest precision measurements to date of infrared signals from nearby stars, allowing...
2 days ago - Phys.org
This gorgeous Moon shot took 50,000 individual photos to create
We've seen some pretty stunning images of the Moon over the years thanks to high-powered imaging tools from NASA and other space agencies, but you don't need a massive...
2 days ago - TheBoyGeniusReport
Mysterious Glowing ‘Dragon' Aurora Spotted Over Iceland
A bright green dragon emerging from a spectacular Aurora Borealis display was captured in a photograph taken in Iceland. NASA shared the image as their Astronomy Picture of the...
2 days ago - Geek
In colliding galaxies, a pipsqueak shines bright
In the nearby Whirlpool galaxy and its companion galaxy, M51b, two supermassive black holes heat up and devour surrounding material. These two monsters should be the most...
2 days ago - Phys.org
Cosmic dust forms in supernovae blasts
Scientists claim to have solved a longstanding mystery as to how cosmic dust, the building blocks of stars and planets, forms across the Universe.
3 days ago - Phys.org
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Oppo's upcoming flagship to feature Snapdragon 855 and 5G connectivity
Along with the 10x optical zoom, the 5G was the other main topic of Oppo's event. No new phones were unveiled, but the company still had some exciting news about its future...
Leaked banner reveals the Huawei Mate X, the company's foldable smartphone
This week we saw Samsung launch its foldable smartphone in the form of the Samsung Galaxy Fold. It turns out Samsung will not be alone in launching a foldable device because it...
NASA's New Horizons sends back the clearest view yet of a flattened space peanut
New photos sent back by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft reveal mysterious light patches and dark divots on the strange, frozen space rock known as 2014 MU69. These photos are...
Best Samsung Galaxy S10+ pre-order deals February 2019: 50GB for £53/m on EE
Samsung has launched at trio of new phones, and we're now covering all the top offers on the largest of them all - the Samsung Galaxy S10+. The S10+ is around to pre-order now...
Réalité augmentée: Microsoft lance des applications pour Android et iOS
Microsoft croit en sa technologie de réalité augmentée HoloLens. Dans cette perspective, la firme américaine va développer son concept, et développer des applications dédiées...
France vs Scotland live stream: how to watch Six Nations 2019 rugby online...
France are back after a battering from England last game, this time to take on Scotland in the 2019 Six Nations. It's a tricky one to predict, so make sure you tune in...
A first test shot of Nokia 9 PureView highlights the potential of its camera
There are now only a few hours left until the official presentation of one of the most anticipated and talked about smartphones of the last...
Le robot lunaire Beresheet est en route pour la Lune
Beresheet, le robot conçu par une fondation israélienne est en train de rejoindre son futur terrain de jeu : la Lune. Un programme qui mérite l'attention, car il s'agit d'une...
Barracuda Web Application Firewall: Overview and Analysis
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Vivo V11, V11 Pro to get Funtouch OS 9 based on Android Pie in March 2019
Some Android OEMs have a pretty notorious track record when it comes to OS updates and Vivo would be one of the top ones in...