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  2. NASA releases image of 'cosmic wreath': Star cluster ... - AOL

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    NASA recently spotted the vibrant colors that make up the "cosmic wreath," a swarm of stars and dust on the outskirts of the Small Magellanic Cloud, one of the closest galaxies to the Milky Way ...

  3. Interstellar probe - Wikipedia

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    A critical technology for the mission is a large 1 g/m 2 solar sail. TAU mission (1987) TAU mission (Thousand Astronomical Units) was a proposed nuclear electric rocket craft that used a 1 MW fission reactor and an ion drive with a burn time of about 10 years to reach a speed of 106 km/s (about 20 AU/year) to achieve a distance of 1000 AU in 50 ...

  4. 'How did we get here?' NASA hopes 'artificial star' can teach ...

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    Artificial star will be visible to ground telescopes. The purpose of the so-named Landolt NASA Space Mission is to place a calibrated light source into orbit at a distance of 22,236 miles from the ...

  5. ‘Puzzling’ discovery spotted in new images from NASA mission ...

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    Lucy swung by the space rock, located in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, on November 1 as part of a test of the spacecraft’s equipment before tackling the mission’s primary ...

  6. Double Asteroid Redirection Test - Wikipedia

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    The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) was a NASA space mission aimed at testing a method of planetary defense against near-Earth objects (NEOs). [4] [5] It was designed to assess how much a spacecraft impact deflects an asteroid through its transfer of momentum when hitting the asteroid head-on. [6]

  7. Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite - Wikipedia

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    tess.gsfc.nasa.gov tess.mit.edu: Mission duration: 2 years (planned) 6 years, 10 months, 1 day (in progress) Spacecraft properties; Spacecraft: Explorer XCV: Spacecraft type: Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite: Bus: LEOStar-2/750 [3] Manufacturer: Orbital ATK: Launch mass: 362 kg (798 lb) [4] Dimensions: 3.7 × 1.2 × 1.5 m (12.1 × 3.9 × 4 ...

  8. Voyager program - Wikipedia

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    In 40,000 years Voyager 2 will be within 1.7 ly of Ross 248 (another star which is approaching the Sun), and in 296,000 years it will pass within 4.6 ly of Sirius, which is the brightest star in the night-sky. [2] The spacecraft are not expected to collide with a star for 1 sextillion (10 20) years. [59]

  9. NASA’s only visit to Uranus happened during a rare cosmic ...

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    The new study found that when Voyager 2 was taking its readings intense solar wind created conditions that happen 4% of the time, said Jamie Jasinski, a space plasma physicist at NASA’s Jet ...