Tuesday, March 18, 2025

NASA Starliner astronauts return to Earth today! How to watch live.

NASA Starliner astronauts return to Earth today! | Timeline: How 10 days led to 9 months in space | Starliner and Crew-9 live landing mission updates
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The Launchpad
NASA Starliner astronauts return to Earth today!
(NASA)
It is landing day at last, Space Fans!

Nine months after launching on a 10-day trip to the International Space Station, NASA's Boeing Starliner astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore will return to Earth with two Crew-9 astronauts to end what became an ordeal in space. See what time they'll return and how to watch live here!
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Timeline: How 10 days led to 9 months in space
(NASA)
It's been a long time since NASA's Starliner astronauts launched into space. Long enough for Suni Williams to take command of the ISS, take two spacewalks with Butch Wilmore and perform many science experiments. Here's a look at how their 10-day test flight transformed into a months long odyssey ahead of landing.
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Skywatching
Night sky tonight: Can you find the Great Bear?
(Starry Night)
You know how to find the Big Dipper/Plough in the northern sky, but what about its parent constellation, Ursa Major?

The Big Dipper/Plough is seven stars that make the unmistakable shape of a handle and a cup, but it's merely the tail and hindquarters of Ursa Major — the "Great Bear." Trace out the stars of this vast, famous, yet usually ignored constellation, and you'll be one of very few who can.
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Spaceflight
Farewell, Blue Ghost! Private moon lander goes dark
(Firefly Aerospace)
NASA's Starliner astronauts and Crew-9 aren't the only ones ending their mission. On Sunday, Firefly Aerospace announced that its private Blue Ghost moon lander's days were done on the lunar surface. The spacecraft set a new record for the longest commercial moon landing mission after two weeks studying Mare Crisium on the moon. Plus, look at that photo!
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Science & Astronomy
Webb Telescope sees four giant alien planets around star
(NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, W. Balmer (JHU), L. Pueyo (STScI), M. Perrin (STScI))
Let's turn to science, now, where the James Webb Space Telescope has made a new exoplanet discovery that astronomers have been hunting for for years. The space observatory took spotted clear looks at four inner planets around an alien star, including the first discovery of carbon dioxide on another planet.
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Technology
World's largest digital camera to help new observatory
(RubinObs/NOIRLab/SLAC/NSF/DOE/AURA/B. Quint)
The car-sized Large Synoptic Survey Telescope Camera that was recently installed on the Vera C. Rubin Observatory is the largest digital camera ever built and will be used to capture detailed images of the southern hemisphere sky over a decade.

"The installation of the LSST Camera on the telescope is a triumph of science and engineering," said Harriet Kung, Acting Director of the Department of Energy's Office of Science. "We look forward to seeing the unprecedented images this camera will produce." Here's what it will do.
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Entertainment
'Apollo 1' director surprised by documentary details
(NASA)
A new documentary that tells the story of Apollo 1 astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee, who died after a fire erupted in their spacecraft on the launch pad, has surprised even its director, despite the event originally occuring in 1967. You won't want to miss this one.
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On This Day in Space
Astronaut takes a mind-bending trip over Earth
(NASA/Don Pettit and Babak Tafreshi via X)
While NASA's Starliner astroanauts are returning to Earth, it's worth remembering there are still people living and working up there in space. And sometimes, they take photos.

This image, taken by NASA astronaut Don Pettit on the ISS, shows a stunning Earth covered in light streaks, while even the stars overhead leave brilliant trails. See how he did it here.
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Soviet rocket explosion kills 48 people
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On March 18, 1980, a Soviet rocket exploded on the launchpad and killed 48 people. The Vostok-2M rocket was about to launch a new spy satellite called Tselina-D. Military technicians were working to fuel the rocket on the launchpad at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome, a top-secret spaceport a few hundred miles north of Moscow. It wasn't until three years after the explosion happened that the Soviets admitted that this secret spaceport existed. See how it happened in our "On This Day in Space" video series!
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Дорогие коллеги,

мы запускаем совместный онлайн семинар с институтом теоретической физики
Китайской Академии Наук. Планируется, что семинар будет проходить по
четвергам с 10:00 до 12:00 по московскому времени примерно один раз в
месяц. В рамках семинара будет заслушиваться по два доклада (по одному с
российской и китайской стороны).

Первый семинар состоится 20 марта.

Inverse Cascade of Energy and Coherent Vortices in Two-Dimensional
Turbulence (Prof. Igor Kolokolov)
http://itp.cas.cn/kxyj/xshd/xsbg/202503/t20250314_7558544.html

Observation and Modeling Study of Optical Turbulence Characteristics in
the Upper Atmosphere (Prof. Tao Luo)
http://itp.cas.cn/kxyj/xshd/xsbg/202503/t20250314_7558546.html

Ссылка на подключение к ЗУМ ниже

The zoom meeting:

Topic: Joint Online Colloquium
Time: Mar 20, 2025 03:00 PM Beijing, Shanghai
Meeting ID: 840 1973 8524
Passcode: 170096
Invite Link:
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Уважаемые коллеги!

На заседании Ученого совета ИТФ в пятницу 21.03 в 11:30 будет заслушан 1 доклад:
1). И.С. Бурмистров
Пространственно-временная динамика амплитудной моды Шмида-Хиггса в грязных сверхпроводниках

Исследована пространственно-временная динамику коллективной амплитудной моды Шмида-Хиггса (SH) в неупорядоченных s-волновых сверхпроводниках. Проанализирована аналитическая структура восприимчивости SH при нулевой температуре как функции комплексной частоты и найдено, что в грязном пределе когда длина когерентности значительно превышает среднюю длину свободного пробега: (i) отклик SH при фиксированных волновых векторах демонстрирует осцилляции с частотой 2Δ, затухающие со временем как 1/t^2, где Δ - величина сверхпроводящая щель; (ii) пространственно-временные субдиффузионные колебания с динамическим показателем z=4; и (iii) пространственные колебания на фиксированной частоте затухают экспоненциально, с периодом, который уменьшается по мере приближения частоты к 2Δ сверху. Когда длина когерентности сравнима со средней длиной свободного пробега, появляются дополнительные экспоненциально затухающие колебания на фиксированных волновых векторах с частотой выше 2Δ. Кроме того, показано, что амплитудная коллективная мода индуцирует дополнительный пик в токе генерации третьей гармоники при конечных волновых векторах. Частота этого пика смещена от обычного резонанса на Δ, тем самым обеспечивая однозначную характеристику динамики амплитуды параметра порядка.

ID и пароль онлайн-трансляций в Zoom те же, что и для предыдущих трансляций семинаров и докладов на Ученом совете:
https://zoom.us/j/96899364518?pwd=MzBsR2lYT0lYL2x2b1oyNU9LeWlWUT09
Meeting ID: 968 9936 4518
Пароль: 250319

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Monday, March 17, 2025

Starliner astronauts finally leave ISS tonight. Watch it live

Watch Starliner astronauts finally leave ISS tonight | How did Earth get such a strange moon? | Rocket Lab launch tonight: How to watch live
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The Launchpad
Watch Starliner astronauts finally leave ISS tonight
(NASA)
Hey, Space Fans! We're starting this week off with something we've all been waiting for a long time: The "stranded" Boeing Starliner astroanuts are finally beginning their trip home.

Tonight, NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore, alongside NASA's Nick Hague and Russia's Aleksandr Gorbunov, will depart the ISS and prepare for their trip home. Williams and Wilmore are 9 months into a planned 10-day mission due to Boeing Starliner capsule issues.
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How did Earth get such a strange moon?
(MARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images)
There's a lot going on with the moon. For starters, it exists, which is weird in its own way when compared to Mercury and Venus. Mars does have two moons, but they're really just captured asteroids. Earth is the only rocky planet in the solar system with a significant moon, and there may be a reason for that.
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Rocket Lab launch tonight: How to watch live
(Rocket Lab)
In other spaceflight news, the private company Rocket Lab plans to launch five Kinéis satellites on its "High Five" mission to finish a 25-satellite constellation for the satellite operator. You'll be able to watch it live tonight at 9:31 p.m. EDT (0231 March 18 GMT) via Rocket Lab. Here's how.
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Space Deal of the Day
Best save sun viewing binoculars 58% off
(Celestron)
We rate Celestron's EclipSmart 10x25 Solar Binoculars as one of our best solar binoculars for safe sungazing at their usual price of $34.95. Right now, they are even better value as you can pick them up with a $20.29 saving in this binoculars deal — a terrific buy for viewing the partial solar eclipse on March 29.
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Skywatching
Night sky for tonight: Don't miss the Pleiades stars!
(NurPhoto/Getty Images)
It's one of the most spectacular naked eye sights in the winter night sky, but the Pleiades — also called the Seven Sisters and M45 — will soon sink into the western horizon shortly after sunset. The stars of the Pleiades feature in the lore of many cultures, often symbolizing good fortune, navigation and protection. The ancient Greeks linked its appearance to agricultural prosperity; in Japan (where it's called Subaru), it's related to guidance and harmony, and in Navajo culture, it's a symbol of unity and order in the universe.
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Spaceflight
The 1st private mission to Venus comes together
(NASA)
You know, we mentioned Rocket Lab's planned launch for tonight, but the company is setting its future targets much higher than low Earth orbit: The planet Venus.

Rocket Lab hopes to launch the first private mission to Venus and has teamed up with MIT and NASA to do it. In fact, they've just installed the heat shield on their probe. Check it out!
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Science & Astronomy
Does Mars have an ocean's worth of water underground?
(Pixabay)
Where's the water on Mars? It's a huge question that could affect how humans explore the Red Planet. Now, scientists say there may be water IN Mars, just not on the surface.

"Many studies suggest the presence of water on ancient Mars billions of years ago,"one scientist says. "But our model indicates the presence of liquid water on present-day Mars." Here's how it could work.
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Entertainment
Mindbending new 'Black Mirror' Season 7 trailer
(Netflix)
Netflix's "Black Mirror" is a provocative, imaginative, and often extremely disturbing sci-fi horror TV anthology that represents some of the best material on the streaming titan, and now a bold new Season 7 trailer has been unleashed with a callback to one of the finest episodes of Season 4 (and perhaps the entire series): "USS Callister."
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On This Day in Space
U.S. launches second satellite, Vanguard 1
(NASA)
Let's star the week with something historic that happened today in space.

On Saint Patrick's Day in 1958, the U.S. Navy launched Vanguard 1, the first solar-powered satellite and the oldest artificial satellite currently orbiting the Earth. The main purpose of this mission was to test a new three-stage rocket. Vanguard 1 was the fourth satellite ever launched into space (following Sputniks 1 and 2 and Explorer 1). It looks a lot like a miniature version of Sputnik.
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Space photo of the day!
(F. Millour/ESO)
We'll close today with this stunning photo as comet C/2024 G3 lights up the sunset sky over Chile's Very Large Telescope.What you're seeing here is the Great Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS), a comet discovered in 2024 that lit up the night sky late in that year and early 2025, and was the brightest comet in 18 years when it was visible to stargazers throughout January 2025.

You'll find more about the image (and comet) in our link below and have a great Monday, Space Fans!
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