Plastic bottles and bags can be vaporised into chemical building blocks and turned into new plastics with all the properties of virgin material – a big step towards a truly circular economy for plastic. newscientist.com/article/244533…

A long-running research endeavor reveals key chemical players that cement memories in place—and still more have yet to be discovered trib.al/jd3ptba

Beam me up? We're not quite sending people or animals as particles yet, but this summer, the NASA Laser Communications Relay Demonstration used laser beams to send pictures of pets from Earth to the International Space Station. Happy Star Trek Day! 🖖 go.nasa.gov/4cUNkmz

Three more like before! The rollout of Apollo 12 from NASA's Kennedy Space Center's Vehicle Assembly Building to Launch Pad 39A took place 55 years ago #OTD in 1969. The rocket made the 3.5-mile trip to the pad in about 6 hours.

Releasing engineered nanoparticles into the Martian atmosphere could warm the planet by over 30 K. ow.ly/gNut50TiAgI

Commander Dave Scott of Apollo 15 validates Galileo's theory on the Moon by dropping a hammer and a feather, proving that objects fall at the same speed, independent of their mass.

The spin of a particle seems to detach and move without a body—a strange experimental observation that’s stirring up debate trib.al/yD0MBZG

The Polaris astronaut mission is headed for an altitude 3 times higher than the Space Station, the furthest that humans have been from Earth in over half a century!

Luna. Księżyc. Tungl. Moon. 🌙 Friends from around the world will join us this Saturday, Sept.14 for the 15th annual International Observe the Moon Night. Look back to our 2021 celebration and hear how folks #ObserveTheMoon around the world.

#PPOD: Last Full Image of #Dimorphos Asteroid moonlet Dimorphos as seen by the #DARTMission spacecraft 11 seconds before impact. DART’s onboard DRACO imager captured this image from a distance of 68 kilometers. This image was the last to contain all of Dimorphos in the field of

Exciting milestone! After years of preparation, the first neutrinos have been observed by the Short-Baseline Near Detector collaboration at Fermilab. 🙌 #neutrino Short Baseline Near Detector #physics 🔗 Read more: news.fnal.gov/2024/09/first-…

“So many young girls do need to see someone who looks like them doing things that they never thought they could do.” Astronaut Jeanette Epps is helping run dozens of ISS Research experiments aboard the International Space Station—like this study on how to prevent fires in microgravity.

Mars! 140 million miles away. Perseverance Rover looks back at the path it has traveled.

Two renewable resources, wind and solar, together have produced more power than coal through July—a first for the U.S. trib.al/vuVT9sM

Polaris Dawn and Dragon at 1,400 km above Earth – the farthest humans have traveled since the Apollo program over 50 years ago

#BreakingNews For the first time, astronomers have captured images of a star other than the Sun in enough detail to track the motion of bubbling gas on its surface. The images of the star✨, R Doradus, were obtained with ALMA📡, in July and August 2023 🔗almaobservatory.org/en/press-relea…

The big, irreversible decision to open the hatch soon. If it doesn’t close properly, the crew would have to do an emergency deorbit with pressurized suits. Serious business.

Emerging from Dragon for spacewalk

SpaceX just achieved the first-ever commercial spacewalk in human history. Ad Astra 💫

Come and see CMHASD at Hall Place & Gardens on Wed 13th November 2024 at 7pm to do some Stargazing (weather permitting). Tickets can be purchased here hallplace.org.uk/event/stargazi……… News Shopper Dartford Living Dartford Messenger Hall Place & Gardens Enjoy Bexleyheath