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NASA — Follow, follow the Sun / And which way the wind…
NASA

NASA — Follow, follow the Sun / And which way the wind…

On June 10, people in parts of the northern hemisphere will have the chance to witness a solar eclipse.Watch the full visualization of the eclipse.The June 10 eclipse is an annular solar eclipse, meaning that the Sun will never be completely covered by the Moon. The Moon’s orbit around the Earth is not a perfect circle, so throughout each month, the Moon’s distance from Earth varies. During an annular eclipse, the Moon is far enough away from Earth that the Moon appears smaller than the Sun in the sky. Since the Moon does not block the entire view of the Sun, it will look like a dark disk on top of a larger, bright disk. This creates what looks like a ring of fire around the Moon.People in the narrow path of annularity — which, for this eclipse, cuts through Canada, Greenland, and northern...
SpOC commander, CMSSF visit Space Delta 4 > United States Space Force > Article Display
Space Force

SpOC commander, CMSSF visit Space Delta 4 > United States Space Force > Article Display

BUCKLEY SPACE FORCE BASE, Colo. (AFNS) --  Lt. Gen. David N. Miller, Jr., commander of Space Operations Command, Chief Master Sgt. of the Space Force John Bentivegna and Chief Master Sgt. Caleb Lloyd, SpOC senior enlisted leader, visited Buckley Space Force Base July 3, to engage with Space Delta 4 personnel and gain a comprehensive understanding of their mission operations. The visit began with an office call at DEL 4 headquarters, where Miller received an overview of DEL 4’s operational landscape. He also toured the 3rd Satellite Communications Squadron antenna site, learning about their crucial role in ...
Patrick Space Force Base wins annual installation award > United States Space Force > Article Display
Space Force

Patrick Space Force Base wins annual installation award > United States Space Force > Article Display

ARLINGTON, Va. (AFNS) --  Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III announced Patrick Space Force Base as the Space Force recipient of the Commander in Chief’s Annual Award for Installation Excellence July 1.The award recognizes the outstanding and innovative efforts of the teams of people who operate and maintain U.S. military installations, selecting one base from each military service, plus the Defense Logistics Agency each year.This year’s Space Force Installation Excellence selection board consisted of a cross functional team from the Headquarters United States Space Force staff.The board recognized the Guardians and mission partners of Patrick SFB for providing outstanding mission support through innovation and programs dedicated to mission readin...
Incredibly complex mazes discovered in structure of bizarre crystals
Science

Incredibly complex mazes discovered in structure of bizarre crystals

Can you find you way out from the red centre of the maze? Scroll down for the solutionUniversity of Bristol An algorithm designed to find the most efficient path from atom to atom in a bizarre kind of crystal turns out to produce incredibly intricate mazes. As well as making mazes, the technique could help speed up certain industrial chemical reactions. The crystals in question are called quasicrystals because, while their atoms are arranged in repeating forms like an ordinary crystal, they display more complex and unpredictable forms of symmetry. Such crystals have been synthesised in the laboratory and were even created by the first detonation of a nuclear weapon in 1945, but only one natural source has ever been found: a meteorite discovered in Russia in 1985. ...
Webb captures a staggering quasar-galaxy merger in the remote universe
Astronomy

Webb captures a staggering quasar-galaxy merger in the remote universe

Map of the line emission of hydrogen (in red and blue) and oxygen (in green) in the PJ308-21 system, shown after masking the light from the central quasar ("QSO"). The different colors of the quasar's host galaxy and companion galaxies in this map reveal the physical properties of the gas within them. Credit: Decarli/INAF/A&A 2024 An international research group led by the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF) and comprising 34 research institutes and universities worldwide utilized the Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) on board the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to witness the dramatic interaction between a quasar inside the PJ308–21 system and two massive satellite galax...