Tag: Gravity
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Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin will give NASA a spin in lunar gravity on suborbital flight
A drone’s eye view shows Blue Origin’s New Shepard spaceship lifting off for a test flight. (Blue Origin Photo) With backing from NASA, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture will upgrade its New Shepard suborbital spaceship to provide lunar levels of gravity for future experiments. “Humanity has been dreaming about artificial gravity since…
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May the gravitational force be with you: Hubble spies oodles of galaxies far away
A Hubble Space Telescope view shows the Abell 370 galaxy cluster. (NASA / ESA / HST Frontier Fields) Choose your movie meme: “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2,” or “Star Wars” for May the Fourth. Either way, the Hubble Space Telescope’s newly released picture of the Abell 370 galaxy cluster is just the ticket. This…
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Hanford’s scientists finally spill gravitational-wave secrets – but they still can’t tell all
The beamlines for the LIGO detector site at Hanford stretch out across the desert terrain of southeastern Washington. Each arm of the L-shaped detector is 2.5 miles long. (Credit: LIGO) HANFORD, Wash. – Physicists here had to keep mum for nearly five months about the gravitational-wave breakthrough they helped make, but they made up for their…
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Super Thursday: LIGO schedules the big reveal about its gravitational wave quest
This 3-D visualization shows the gravitational waves produced by two orbiting black holes. (Credit: NASA) It looks as if scientists have chosen Thursday as the day to announce a potentially Nobel Prize-winning discovery: the first detection of gravitational waves, a century after they were predicted by Albert Einstein. After months of rumors, simultaneous events have…