Surya Grahan 2018: A solar eclipse takes place when the moon traverses between the earth and the sun, blocking it from view, partially or fully.
The July 27 blood moon is likely to last beyond 100 minutes and is expected to cast a larger shadow over the Earth than previously recorded moons.
The crew module reached an altitude of nearly 2.7 km under the power of its seven specifically designed quick acting solid motors to take away the crew module to a safe distance without exceeding the safe g-levels.
NASA recently awarded Lockheed Martin a $247.5 million contract to build the highly anticipated aircraft.
The eclipse will last for 1 hour and 43 minutes, giving viewers a wonderful opportunity to experience the happening, according to Debiprosad Duari, Director, Research & Academic, M.P. Birla Planetarium, Kolkata.
A first confirmed image of a planet forming in the dust swirling around a young star has been captured.
The spacecraft lifted off on a Falcon 9 rocket on June 29 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
The missile system, with a strike range of 5,000 km and capable of carrying nuclear warhead, are being inducted into the elite Strategic Forces Command (SFC), official sources said.
The failure follows a previous setback in July last year, when engineers lost contact with a rocket about a minute after it launched. Interstellar Technologies said it would continue its rocket development programme after analysing the latest failure.
This rich and dense smattering of stars is a massive globular cluster, a gravitationally bound collection of stars that orbits the Milky Way.
An interesting fact is that the July 27 blood moon could occur around the time when Mars will be the closest to the Earth in the last 15 years.
The marvellous phenomenon is slated for the night of July 27 and July 28.
The spacecraft is expected to reach the International Space Station on July 2.
Many astronomers have claimed that they have not seen something like this in their career before.
Aiming to reduce aircraft noise for communities that live near airports, NASA has successfully tested new noise reduction technologies on a series of Acoustic Research Measurement (ARM) flight, and managed to cut airframe noise during landing by more than 70 per cent.
NASA said that its Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter had captured a photo on January 24, 2018 which showed the accumulation of crescent-shaped sand dunes.
The satellite is one of the world's first attempts to tackle the build-up of dangerous space debris orbiting the Earth.
Globular clusters are ancient compact clusters of hundreds of thousands of stars clumped tightly together via gravity which were formed 11-13 billion years ago, just a few cosmic moments after the Big Bang.
Blood Moon 2018: Giving out a delightful treat for those who manage to get a glimpse of the night sky, the total lunar eclipse will also feature a "blood moon" phenomena, which is a result of sunlight being scattered throughout the Earth’s atmosphere.
The Martian dust storm has grown in size and is now officially a "planet-encircling" (or "global") dust event, according to Bruce Cantor of Malin Space Science Systems, San Diego.
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