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[embedded content] Twice a year, around the time of the autumnal and veal equinoxes, is the Solar Dynamics Observatory's eclipse season. From its vantage point in geosynchronous orbit around the Earth, the SDO's view of the sun is blocked once a day by the Earth. And on the rare occasion, both the Earth and the moon pass between the SDO and the sun -- a rare double eclipse. One of these took place on September 1, when first the Earth, then the moon, were captured blocking out the sun as the SDO filmed the whole thing in hi-res. It's not quite as dramatic as a solar eclipse take from the Earth, but it's still interesting if you know what you'r...

[embedded content] Hurricanes are scary enough at ground level. View them from space and they look almost unreal, like special effects created in a movie studio. NASA released a time-lapse video on Tuesday showing the Inteational Space Station orbiting over three separate hurricanes. They look both massive and frightening from the station's orbital vantage point.In order, the video shows twin hurricanes Lester and Madeline in the Pacific Ocean and then Gaston in the Atlantic Ocean. Both Lester and Madeline pose a potential threat to the Hawaiian Islands. Gaston is kicking across the Atlantic with wind speeds reaching 100 mph (about 160 kph). Les...

Enlarge ImageA SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off at Cape Canaveral, Florida, on July 18, 2016. Bruce Weaver/AFP/Getty Images Satellite operator SES and rocket maker SpaceX on Tuesday aounced plans to launch the SES-10 satellite into orbit on a used Falcon 9 rocket. The SES-10 will replace SES's AMC-3 and AMC-4 satellites to provided expanded telecommunications coverage to Latin America. Luxembourg-based SES said it will be the first company to ever launch a geostationary satellite on a used rocket. The launch is slated for sometime in the fourth quarter. "Re-launching a rocket that has already delivered spacec...

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Virgin Galactic's VSS Unity, which is currently undergoing testing. Virgin Galactic Virgin Atlantic's rocket planes may soon be taking to the skies once more, as the would-be space tourism company is awarded an operator license for its SpaceShipTwo craft.The license, granted by the US Federal Aviation Administration's Office of Commercial Space Transportation, will pave the way for commercial flights, Virgin Galactic said in a statement. The company has also started taxi tests of new SpaceShipTwo craft VSS Unity, ahead of flight tests.The granting of this license is a step towards getting Virgin Atlantic's s...

Enlarge ImageThe SpaceX Dragon craft launched at 12:45 a.m. EDT on July 18, carrying nearly 2,268 kilograms (5,000 pounds) of cargo. It's due to arrive at 7 a.m. EDT on July 20. NASA NASA has sent a DNA sequencer to the Inteational Space Station and is on track to perform the first DNA sequencing to take place in space.The SpaceX Dragon craft carrying the cargo launched on July 18, and is due to arrive on July 20, and will allow astronauts above the space station to sequence DNA right there on the space station. Usually, crewmembers have to send samples back to Earth for sequencing, which can take months. Bei...

View post on imgur.comEditor's note: An image of a display at the Barcelona Wax Museum has been circulating on social media this week -- and, well, you can see why. Look people, it is precisely five minutes from the end of my shift, and those tapas aren't going to eat themselves. You think curating the exhibits at the Barcelona Wax Museum is easy, I'd like to see you try it. There are only so many rooms with an outer-space backdrop, OK? Yeah, maybe that one droid, or alien, or whatever you call the thing with the heartlight, wasn't exactly a big part of this Star Trek or Star Wars or Star Bucks movie (except for this "Phantom Menace" thing) but the fairy-tale exhibit was full, I already told...

RoadshowNewsCar IndustryGO your own way: LA Auto Show adds floor space for personal mobilityHooray! More things for our not-at-all-larger team to cover in the same span of time! David McNew/Getty Images Mobility takes many forms. Sometimes, all you need is something capable of taking you a few miles, and a car's quite the expensive tool for that job alone. The Los Angeles Auto Show recognizes this, and as part of its effort to expand beyond just cars, it's creating floor space for all forms of personal mobility.Starting with this year's show in November, which kicks off with AutoMobility LA (formerly known as...

Enlarge ImageThe big guy and three of its largest moons as seen from Juno. NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS About a week after NASA's Juno spacecraft entered orbit around Jupiter on July 4, the first images taken from the spacecraft's perch around the largest planet in the solar system have made their way back to Earth. On Sunday, six days after starting its orbit, Juno's visible light camera was tued on and the JunoCam captured the above scene, proving it survived its first pass through the planet's intense radiation. (We already heard the audio evidence that it made it into Jupiter's magnetosphere.) The view show...

NASA's solar-powered Juno spacecraft arrives at Jupiter on July 4, 2016. NASA This Fourth of July, while the rest of America is busy eating hotdogs and lighting fireworks (hopefully at the same time), the dedicated scientists and engineers of NASA are once again putting in the long hours, this time to bring us never before seen pictures of Jupiter. But once NASA gets us there, it's up to us to take pictures of the action. After almost five years hurtling solo through space, the solar-powered Juno spacecraft is today set to enter Jupiter's orbit, before spending 20 months circling the gas giant. In this time...

NASA's solar-powered Juno spacecraft arrives at Jupiter on July 4, 2016. NASA This Fourth of July, while the rest of America is busy eating hotdogs and lighting fireworks (hopefully at the same time), the dedicated scientists and engineers of NASA are once again putting in the long hours, this time to bring us never before seen pictures of Jupiter.But once NASA gets us there, it's up to us to take pictures of the action. After almost five years hurtling solo through space, the solar-powered Juno spacecraft is today set to enter Jupiter's orbit, before spending 20 months circling the gas giant. In this time, J...

Netflix has ordered a new "Lost In Space" series, based on the 1960s original. 20th Century Fox/Archive Photos/Getty Images Will Robinson will soon find himself in danger again, thanks to Netflix.The inteet streaming giant aounced Wednesday it has ordered 10 one-hour episodes of an updated "Lost In Space," based on the popular 1960s classic sci-fi series. The show, which will premiere in 2018, is likely to be a bit edgier than the Irwin Allen original, which aired for three seasons from 1965 to 1968 on CBS (CBS is the parent company of CNET publisher CBSinteractive). Like the original, the reboot will follow ...

Nonprofit Black Girls CODE teaches young girls of color tech skills. Black Girls Code For young girls of color, the distance between first getting interested in computers and eventually landing a job in tech is long and marked with exit ramps.Nonprofit Black Girls CODE and search giant Google are hoping to shorten the distance between that initial spark and an actual job by putting coding students in the same building as Google's New York office. On Wednesday, Black Girls CODE and Google will launch the new space inside Google's building in Manhattan. Google bought the building in Manhattan in 2010. The space...

Enlarge ImageWeher von Braun standing next to five Rocketdyne F-1 engines og the Satu V first stage. NASA Marshall Space Flight Center The Satu V rocket was a remarkable achievement of human engineering. The man-rated rocket carried every Apollo mission into space, and won the Space Race for America.It was also based on Nazi technology.Weher von Braun was an aerospace engineer and member of the Nazi Party during World War II. As the chief engineer of the Third Reich, he created a long-range ballistic missile called the V-2 rocket.June 20 is a key date in his story, popping up twice. The first time was June 2...

Evelyn Miralles, a 24-year veteran at the VRLab, has been training astronauts through simulations since the 1990s at NASA Johnson Space Center. Courtesy of NASA Johnson Space Center If she had climbed Califoia's Half Dome in a virtual reality simulation first, Evelyn Miralles is pretty sure she wouldn't have balked when it was time to actually hike the high rock formation in Yosemite National Park.Visualizing experiences through VR headsets is what Miralles, principal engineer and lead VR iovator for the Virtual Reality Laboratory and astronaut training facility at NASA, has been doing for over 20 years. She ...

To become an astronaut, you already need to be pretty highly skilled. But in order to tell the story of spectacular IMAX documentary "A Beautiful Planet", the crew of the Inteational Space Station needed to add a new skill: filmmaking. Narrated by Jeifer Lawrence, "A Beautiful Planet" is a revealing glimpse into the day-to-day life aboard the ISS. Not only that, as per the film's title, the view expands to majestic vistas of the Earth below, clearly showing the impact we as a species have upon the planet we call home. It's a stuing and humbling vision, captured from the unique perspective of the astronauts who shot most of the film. [embedded content] ...