Astronomers at the Pan-STARRS Observatory in Hawaii made history in 2017 when they detected ‘Oumuamua, the first interstellar object (ISO) ever observed. Two years later, the interstellar comet 2I/Borisov became the second ISO ever observed. And on July 1st, 2025, the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) in Rio Hurtado detected a third interstellar object in our Solar System, the …
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In a major step forward for one of NASA’s most anticipated space observatories, engineers at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, have successfully installed two sunshields on the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. “This shield is like an extremely strong sunblock for Roman’s sensitive instruments, protecting them from heat and light from the sun that would otherwise overwhelm …
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Key numbers used Voyager 1 speed ≈ 17 km/s (typical quoted value). 1 astronomical unit (AU) = 149,597,870.7 km. 1 year ≈ 365.25 days and 1 day = 86,400 seconds. Convert Voyager speed to AU per year (digit-by-digit) Seconds per year = 86,400 × 365.25 = 31,557,600 s. Distance per year = 17 km/s × 31,557,600 s = 536,479,200 km/year. …
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Communication depends on Voyager’s 3.7-metre high-gain antenna transmitting narrow, low-power X-band radio signals. Those signals are captured by NASA’s Deep Space Network, three arrays of huge dishes in California, Spain and Australia, which amplify and decode the faint transmissions. The probe transmits slowly and in short bursts, storing data onboard and sending it in low-rate streams that the DSN reconstructs …
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’40 years in deep space’: How NASA’s Voyager-1 survives a 50,000°C firewall on outskirts of our solar system WION ‘50,000°C without fire’: NASA’s Voyager-1 reaches solar system’s firewall 20,000 lakh Km from Earth WION Voyager 1 discovers 50,000°C ‘firewall’ 2 billion km from Earth | To read more about the Voyager 1 mission | Inshorts Inshorts NASA’s Voyager 1 discovers a fiery hot …
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Editor’s Note: This release was edited Aug. 9, 2025, to update the International Space Station docking port for the Crew-10 mission. The first crew to splash down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program completed the agency’s 10th commercial crew rotation mission to the International Space Station on Saturday. NASA astronauts Anne …
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A study analyzing data from NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has uncovered evidence of a “helicity barrier” in the Sun’s atmosphere. In 2018, NASA launched the Parker Solar Probe on a trajectory that would eventually have it dive into the Sun’s atmosphere (corona), getting seven times closer to our host star than any other spacecraft so far. In June 2025, the …
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For over two decades, scientists have puzzled over bright, glowing patches of water in the Southern Ocean visible in satellite imagery. These unusual light reflections, concentrated in remote and icy waters near Antarctica, defied explanation — until now. According to research published in Global Biogeochemical Cycles, a combination of silica-rich diatoms and calcium carbonate–bearing coccolithophores are responsible for the dazzling …
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