Astronomy & Space

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• Peter Naur has died ▲ 570
• Purple Earth hypothesis ▲ 286
• Dallol (hydrothermal system) ▲ 265
• Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin ▲ 225
• Satellite killed by trajectory patent ▲ 195
• One-electron universe ▲ 192
• J002E3 ▲ 188
• Dyson Tree ▲ 176
• Olbers' Paradox ▲ 162
• Project West Ford ▲ 148
• Apollo 11 50th Anniversary ▲ 135
• Hoag's Object ▲ 130
• Moon Illusion ▲ 129
• Project Orion ▲ 126
• Wow signal ▲ 125
• Silurian Hypothesis ▲ 119
• Tomorrow is the shortest day of the year: 23 hours, 59 minutes, 38.7 secs ▲ 119
• Launch loop ▲ 116
• Carolyn Shoemaker has died ▲ 115
• Space roar ▲ 113
• 90 percent of everything is crap ▲ 112
• Laniakea Supercluster ▲ 110
• Interplanetary Transport Network ▲ 98
• Przybylski's Star ▲ 96
• Tabby's Star ▲ 88
• Space Transportation System ▲ 87
• Wolf 359 ▲ 84
• Electrodynamic Tether ▲ 83
• Antikythera Mechanism ▲ 83
• Airglow ▲ 79
• Bastion Fort ▲ 76
• List of selected stars for navigation ▲ 76
• The Baghdad Battery ▲ 76
• NEEMO ▲ 74
• A supernova star that erupted continuously for about 1,000 days ▲ 73
• Panspermia ▲ 73
• Saturn's hexagon ▲ 71
• Gravity Probe B ▲ 70
• Project Highwater ▲ 66
• Great Debate (astronomy) ▲ 62
• Vega program ▲ 54
• 319 Leona ▲ 52
• StarTram ▲ 52
• Iridium satellite constellation ▲ 52
• Hypothetical Types of Biochemistry ▲ 49
• MARS-500 ▲ 49
• Soyuz 11 ▲ 48
• Diffractive solar sail ▲ 45
• Mass Driver ▲ 44
• Quantum vacuum plasma thruster ▲ 44
• Decimal time ▲ 42
• Klemperer rosette ▲ 42
• Kobayashi Maru ▲ 41
• The 100 Year Starship ▲ 39
• Messier marathon ▲ 38
• Mercury-Redstone 1 - The four inch flight ▲ 38
• Jacobi ellipsoid ▲ 34
• Soviet version of the Space Shuttle ▲ 33
• SNAP-10A was an experimental nuclear reactor launched into space in 1965 ▲ 30
• NERVA ▲ 28
• OSCAR 1 ▲ 28
• Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment ▲ 27
• Mars Colonial Transporter ▲ 27
• Cosmic Latte ▲ 26
• Quasi-Zenith Satellite System ▲ 24
• Space Infrastructure Servicing ▲ 24
• Project Longshot: 100 Year probe mission to Alpha Centauri ▲ 24
• Boring Billion ▲ 23
• Androgynous Peripheral Attach System ▲ 23
• Direct Fusion Drive ▲ 23
• TON 618 ▲ 22
• Robert Burnham Jr. ▲ 22
• Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster ▲ 22
• Terraforming of Mars ▲ 21
• Accidentally the first commercial lunar satellite. ▲ 21