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When is an asteroid not an asteroid? When it's Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster, it turns out.
The wannabe asteroid, announced on Jan. 2 as 2018 CN41, is actually a Tesla Roadster launched into space years ago by SpaceX ...
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Lagrange Points And Why You Want To Get Stuck At Them
As they orbit each other and one tries to calculate ... led to the discovery of what today are known as Lagrangian (or Lagrange) points. Having a few spots in an N-body configuration where you ...
Mysterious New Asteroid Turns Out To Be Tesla Roadster in Space
The newly discovered asteroid, named 2018 CN41, turned out to be a Tesla launched into space by SpaceX in 2018.
Got a telescope? Bid farewell to ESA's retiring Milky Way mapper
In the meantime, there remains a chance to glimpse Gaia through a small telescope before its final retirement. Uwe Lammers, ...
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Aditya-L1: What is Lagrange Point and why is it important for ISRO's solar mission?
Five such special points mark the choreographic masterpieces in space – places where a small mass can gracefully orbit in sync with two larger masses. The Lagrange Points are celestial ...
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ISRO's Aditya-L1 solar probe completes first orbit around Sun-Earth L1 point
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) announced on Tuesday that Aditya-L1 has completed its first halo orbit around the Sun-Earth Lagrangian point 1 (L1). The spacecraft, inserted into ...
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NASA’s James Webb telescope ready to arrive at its final destination, L2
Here, Webb will orbit the sun while staying in line with Earth. NASA’s latest space marvel, the James Webb telescope, is now ready to enter its final destination L2 or the second Lagrange point ...