ScientistPankaj: Polaris Dawn astronaut plays 'Star Wars' song in music video beamed from space (video)

Friday, September 13, 2024

Polaris Dawn astronaut plays 'Star Wars' song in music video beamed from space (video)

Polaris Dawn astronaut performs 'Star Wars' theme in space | Space Quiz! What year did NASA launch the Voyager 1 space probe? | Starliner astronauts speak publicly, 1st time in 2 months

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September 13, 2024

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Polaris Dawn astronaut performs 'Star Wars' theme in space

(Polaris Program)

Early on Friday (Sept. 13), Gillis and the Polaris Program released the video titled "Harmony of Resilience" on X (formerly Twitter). "As we travel around our beautiful planet Earth on this five-day mission, we wanted to share this special musical moment with you. Bringing together global talent, this performance symbolizes unity and hope, highlighting the resilience and potential of children everywhere," Gillis says when introducing the video.

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Space Quiz! What year did NASA launch the Voyager 1 space probe?

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Starliner astronauts speak publicly, 1st time in 2 months

(NASA)

Boeing Starliner's first astronaut crew will speak from orbit today (Sept. 13) for the first time in two months, a week after their spacecraft left for Earth without them.

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Skywatching

'International Observe the Moon Night' is Sept. 14!

(Getty Images/Darwin Fan)

Saturday, Sept. 14 marks NASA's annual Observe the Moon Night, a worldwide event to promote lunar science and astronomy, celebrate cultural connections to the moon, and promote amateur lunar observations.

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Science & Astronomy

Bubbling surface of a distant star captured on video

(ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/W. Vlemmings et al.)

Astronomers have gotten the first-ever detailed views of turbulent activity in a star other than our own sun. A time-lapse video released Wednesday (Sept. 11) shows enormous gas bubbles roiling on a nearby star called R Doradus, a red giant about 300 times bigger than our sun that lies roughly 180 light-years away, in the southern constellation Dorado. Like a boiling soup on a stovetop, the star's scorching material erupts on its surface in bubbles, which astronomers estimate swell to a whopping 75 times our sun's size.

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SpaceX

Starship won't fly until late November, FAA says

(Space.com / Josh Dinner)

Starship - the biggest and most powerful rocket ever built - flew for the fourth time in June, and SpaceX has been gearing up for flight number five ever since. But that test mission is probably still at least 2.5 months away, according to the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).

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Technology

NASA's Voyager 1 probe swaps thrusters in tricky fix

(NASA)

Voyager 1, the most distant human object that is now flying through interstellar space, had thruster issues making it difficult for the spacecraft to stay pointed at Earth when calling home. Unless Voyager 1 could make a switch to a different thruster set, the 47-year-old spacecraft would sail on alone without help from Earth. Making matters worse, Voyager 1 is so old that sudden changes could damage the spacecraft.

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Search for Life

How AI is helping us search for alien technosignatures

(Haitong Yu/Getty Images)

In July, some of the world's leading astronomers and planetary scientists who specialize in the search for technological intelligence elsewhere in the cosmos gathered to discuss their work at the University of Oxford's physics department. They were attending this year's annual Breakthrough Discuss conference - a meeting of the minds to unravel how artificial intelligence, astrobiology and space missions may one day come to redefine our understanding of life and humanity's relationship to the cosmos.

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