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Japan's space agency officially ends decade-plus mission that carried Hatsune Miku into space one year after losing probe somewhere above Venus
news JAXA's Akatsuki Venus orbiter has officially been shut down well over a decade after launch.
NASA is hosting the first Twitch stream from space and I'm already picturing the chat with equal parts fear and excitement
news The government agency is set to stream from the International Space Station.
This ultra-cool Apollo computer-inspired smartwatch looks rather beautiful but at the same time weirdly incongruous with the fashion-man model shots
news Slap a slice of American engineering history onto your wrist.
It's been a hell of a year, and we're going to end it by pinging a spacecraft travelling at 430,000 mph off the Sun in a presumed affront to the laws of the universe
News We're going down in a blaze of glory. Or at least, this spacecraft might be.
Not just a fashion statement: Prada enters the space race, co-designing suit for Artemis III moon mission
News Though their involvement is only skin deep.
One step closer to a sci-fi reality—NASA announces funding for a quantum dot solar sail and a levitating train on the Moon
news If my daily railway experiences are anything to go by, it'll be late. But lunar late!
NASA's latest speed test logs its laser-based comms system at 25 Mbps—a connection speed usually good for online gaming—over 140 million miles through our solar system
News Just don't look at the ping.
NASA manages to fix Voyager's garbled data problem, even though it's more than 15 billion miles away
news With hardware older than an Atari 2600, it's amazing Voyager 1 is still even running, let alone sending gobbledegook.
![Here’s a variation on creating a time-sequence composite of the August 21, 2017 total solar eclipse In this case, time runs from left to right, from the last filtered partial phases I shot, through unfiltered shots of the rapidly changing last glimmer of sunlight disappearing behind the advancing Moon at “Second Contact,” forming “Baily’s Beads, to totality at centre] The sequence continues at right with the Sun emerging from behind the Moon in a rapid sequence at “Third Contact,” followed by two post-totality filtered partials to bookend the total eclipse images The C3 limb had a beautiful array of pink prominences The Contact 2 and 3 images were taken in rapid-fire continuous mode and so are only fractions of a second apart in real time Most are 1/4000th second exposures The totality image is a blend of 7 exposures, from 1/1600 second to 1/15 second to preserve detail in the corona from inner to middle corona These were aligned, and merged into a smart object and blended with a Mean combine stack mode It is not an HDR image I added a couple of layers of High Pass filtering to sharpen structure in the corona The partials are 1/2500-second exposures through a Thousand Oaks metal-on-glass solar filter for the yellow colour All were taken through an Astro-Physics 106mm apochromatic refractor with a 085x field flattener/reducer for an effective focal length of 500mm at f/5 The flattener added some flares off the diamond rings The telescope was on an AP Mach One equatorial mount, aligned and tracking the sky, a rare circumstance for me for any total solar eclipse The placement of the frames here only roughly matches the actual position and motion of the Sun across the sky during the time around totality Partials and C2 and C3 images layered into Photoshop and blended into the background totality image with a Lighten blend mode, and masked to reveal just the wanted bits of each arc The site was north of Driggs, Idaho in t(Photo by: Alan Dyer/VW Pics/UIG via Getty Images)](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/5nFEn97De7j4XBr35ZTiwJ-840-80.jpg.webp)
