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The Neutron Star Interior Composition ExploreR (NICER) is a NASA telescope on the International Space Station, designed and dedicated to the study of the extraordinary gravitational, electromagnetic, and nuclear physics environments embodied by neutron stars, exploring the exotic states of matter where density and pressure are higher than in atomic nuclei.
The Egyptian pyramids were carefully aligned towards the pole star, [citation needed] and the temple of Amun-Re at Karnak was aligned on the rising of the midwinter Sun. [citation needed] Astronomy played a considerable part in fixing the dates of religious festivals and determining the hours of night, and temple astrologers were especially ...
This week, explore a space rock named for the Egyptian god of chaos, meet an electric blue tarantula, uncover a 2,300-year-old tomb, and more.
c. 560 BCE – Anaximander is arguably the first to conceive a mechanical model of the world, although highly inaccurate: a cylindrical Earth [11] floats freely in space surrounded by three concentric wheels turning at different distances: the closest for the stars and planets, the second for the Moon and the farthest for the Sun, all conceived ...
Apep is a triple star system containing a Wolf–Rayet binary and a hot supergiant, located in the constellation of Norma.Named after the serpent deity from Egyptian mythology, the star system is surrounded by a vast complex of stellar wind and cosmic dust thrown into space by the high rotation speed of the binary's primary star and formed into a "pinwheel" shape by the secondary star's influence.
A study published in 2013 [12] used the Fine Guidance Sensors of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to measure a precise parallax (and therefore distance and luminosity) for the star. This information was used to estimate an age for the star of 14.46 ± 0.8 billion years.
The first orbital space station to host more than one crew was NASA's Skylab, which successfully held three crews from 1973 to 1974. True human settlement in space began with the Soviet space station Mir , which was continuously occupied for close to ten years, from 1989 to 1999.
The most recent visualization of the Pillars of Creation was released by NASA in June 2024. [24] It is a 3D rendering created by images from both the James Webb Space Telescope and the Hubble Space Telescope. NASA described it as "the most comprehensive and detailed multiwavelength movie yet of this star-birthing region." [25]