Amateur Astronomy Club
While extragalactic “rogue” planets – not orbiting any star – have been reported before, the new exoplanet is the first to be detected orbiting stars in another galaxy. And not just any galaxy … but M51, the beautiful Whirlpool, 23 million light-years away. In recent decades, astronomers have found over 4,000 exoplanets, or worlds orbiting other …
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SpaceX (Space Exploration Technologies, Inc.) had a spectacular launch and landing of it’s next generation rocket called Starship last evening around 6:47 PM CST at their Boca Chica Texas manufacturing and test facility. The rocket launched to an altitude of approximately 500 feet before landing again on a different landing pad nearby. The rocket was …
Aldrich member Melanie Meadors was recently awarded a grant from the Massachusetts Space Grant Consortium,which was established by NASA under the National Space Grant College and Fellowship Program created by Congress in 1987. The purpose of these grants is to further education in space science and space engineering opportunities. Melanie is currently a geography/GIS major …
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In January Aldrich Astronomical Society, Inc. filed an application with the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) to win one of the limited number of 30th anniversary Hubble Space Telescope banners with a special image taken by Hubble that had never been seen in public. On February 5, 2020, Aldrich Astronomical Society, Inc. received an e-mail …
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