It was announced yesterday that the first every image of a black hole was taken. This is an achievement for the scientific and specifically astrophysical community.
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Nearly Naked Black Hole
VideoCredit: NRAO/AUI/NSF, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center and the Advanced Visualization Laboratoy at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center/CI Lab
eVscope – the most innovative amateur telescope so far
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OSIRIS-REx on a mission to asteroid Bennu and back by 2023
Origins Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification Security Regolith Explorer, or OSIRIS-REx mission, the first mission to sample an asteroid, was launched from Cape Canaveral on September 8. The launching rocket, an Atlas V 411, reached supersonic speed (video @ 01:10).
Earth has a non-threatening small orbiting asteroid
VideoIt was recently discovered that a small asteroid has been in a stable orbit around Earth for at least a decade. The nature of its orbit “prevents the asteroid from approaching much closer than about 38 times the distance of the moon.”.
Source: JPL via Slashdot news
Ibrahim El Merehbi 