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thatsmaths.com
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| | | | | There are five sweet spots where a spacecraft can keep pace with Earth as both orbit the Sun. They are called the Lagrange points, after the brilliant French mathematician Joseph-Louis Lagrange who found special solutions to what is called the "three-body problem". To locate the second Lagrange point, L2, draw a line 150 million km... | |
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www.ikkaro.net
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| | | | | Discover what the ELT Telescope is, the largest astronomical project under construction. Explore its features and objectives in the search for life and distant galaxies. | |
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asd.gsfc.nasa.gov
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| | | | | I get a lot of questions asking why the James Webb Space Telescope is infrared, and how its images can hope to compare to the (primarily) optical Hubble Space Telescope. Why would NASA build something that isn't going to capture beautiful images exactly like Hubble does? The short answer to this is that JWST will absolutely capture beautiful images of the universe, even if it won't see exactly what Hubble does. (Spoiler: it will see a lot of things even better.) There are legit scientific reasons for JWS... | |
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science.nasa.gov
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| | | Billions of miles beyond Pluto, you can find one of the best-preserved fossils of the beginnings of our solar system-Arrokoth. | ||
