Robert Pearlman
editor of @collectSPACE, on the trail of space shuttle artifacts, missing moon rocks and where space exploration intersects with pop culture
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space.com | Robert Pearlman
Arp 184 or NGC 1961, a skewed or "peculiar" spiral galaxy, is still stunning in this image from the Hubble Space Telescope. What is it? One of the 338 formations cataloged by astronomer Halton Arp in 1966 in his "Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies," Arp 184 or NGC 1961 is a skewed, but still spectacular looking, spiral galaxy as imaged by NASA/ESA's Hubble Space Telescope. Arp 184 was included in the catalog due to its single broad, star-speckled spiral arm that appears to stretch toward Earth.
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yahoo.com | Robert Pearlman
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A time lapse photo captures a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 29 Starlink satellites lifting off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Sunday, May 4, 2025. | Credit: SpaceXLiving up to its Star Wars' namesake, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket took flight again, delivering 29 Starlink satellites to low Earth orbit (LEO) on Sunday, May 4th, 2025 — Star Wars Day.
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space.com | Robert Pearlman
Living up to its Star Wars' namesake, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket took flight again, delivering 29 Starlink satellites to low Earth orbit (LEO) on Sunday, May 4th, 2025 — Star Wars Day. The launch occurred at 4:54 a.m. EDT (0854 GMT) from Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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yahoo.com | Robert Pearlman
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The cosmic community of Abell 1489 comes into focus in this image of the galaxy cluster taken by the Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph on Gemini North, one half of the International Gemini Observatory.
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space.com | Robert Pearlman
Galaxy cluster Abell 1489, as imaged by the International Gemini Observatory, contains more than 200 of the gravitationally-bound systems of stars, stellar remnants, interstellar gas and dust. What is it? Galaxy clusters, like the one pictured here, Abell 1489, are immense neighborhoods of galaxies that are gravitationally bound together. Astronomers classify galaxy clusters in several different ways.
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Ed Smylie, with his team, found the "way to make 'this' fit into the hole for 'this,' using nothing but 'that.'"
NASA engineer Ed Smylie, who led carbon dioxide fix on Apollo 13, dies at 95: https://t.co/a1k6KifVL6 https://t.co/KRRN11Oar7
Two Texas senators have introduced legislation that would strip the Smithsonian of the retired space shuttle Discovery and send it to Houston for display...
Texas Senators: Move space shuttle Discovery from Smithsonian to Houston: https://t.co/VdfMgLAbsC https://t.co/SxmLo46bmr
A colorful pair of patchwork Lunar Quilts, brought together by astronaut Karen Nyberg and now on display at the @kencen, depict astronauts, rockets, capsules and bootprints, as well as — perhaps surprisingly — a few cats...
Lunar Quilts capture crafters, astronaut's take on return to the moon: https://t.co/q3K2Ju1Vkt https://t.co/xuSCPtPVZx