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Reaching into the deep cosmos
007skaty Astronomers photographed the invisible supermassive black hole in the Messier 87 galaxy.
007skaty Black Hole Photography
We turned the whole planet to a camera in the sky, to look a supermassive black hole in the eye!
007skaty Steer your spacecraft using gravity loops to learn how India reached Mars on a budget.
007skaty Carl Sagan curated a 12-inch phonograph record containing greetings in 55 languages, whale songs, and music by Bach and Chuck Berry.
In what year did the Voyager 1 spacecraft officially cross the heliopause to become the first human-made object in interstellar space?
Who chaired the NASA committee that curated the contents of the Voyager Golden Record in 1977?
Who directed the Software Engineering Division that created the on-board flight software for NASA's Apollo space program?
How did Margaret Hamilton's software handle the radar overload during the Apollo 11 lunar landing?
Mars on a budget: India's Mangalyaan Mars mission cost $74 million, which was cheaper than the $165 million budget of the Hollywood sci-fi movie Interstellar.
Which space agency successfully sent the Mangalyaan probe to Mars on its very first attempt in 2014?
What clever orbital maneuver did Indian engineers use to send the Mangalyaan probe to Mars with a low-power rocket?
A traveler who undertakes a long journey, especially by ship or spacecraft. Launched in 1977, the Voyager 1 spacecraft crossed the heliopause into interstellar space in 2012.
How did the Event Horizon Telescope project create a camera powerful enough to image a black hole?
In which galaxy did the Event Horizon Telescope capture the first-ever direct image of a supermassive black hole in 2019?