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Memorial to France’s Forgotten Space Cat Finds Home, New Design
Reading Time: 2 minutes The effort to erect a memorial to honor the only cat known to have traveled to space and back is making some progress. Matthew Serge Guy led a 2017 Kickstarter campaign, with...
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NASA Comes Out With 2020’s Moon Phase Calendar and Calculator
Image: NASA Perfect for families who love to look at the night sky (or even the day sky, with the moon), you can print and make your own moon phase calendar on NASA’s website. NASA’s site has a...
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Space Cat Felicette Statue Unveiled at French University
Image courtesy Matthew Serge Guy A statue memorializing the only cat known to have traveled into space and back has been unveiled at a French university. A cat named Felicette was launched on a French...
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Watch the Crew Dragon Launch Live
We’re about to launch people into space in a new capsule. You know you want to watch! Click through to read all of "Watch the Crew Dragon Launch Live" at GeekDad.If you value content from...
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Watch NASA Fly a Helicopter Drone Live (Less the Time Delay) From Mars...
This is the first time NASA has attempted a controlled flight on another planet. It has taken 6 years, and NASA and JPL have had to overcome many factors: “To fit within the available accommodations...
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Adventures in Astronomy: The Popular Science by Celestron Travel Scope 60...
This summer, Camden Media signed a licensing agreement with Celestron to create a Popular Science-branded line of telescopes, microscopes, and other optical equipment. One of the first of these...
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See Astronauts Working in Space in ‘Among the Stars’ on Disney+
Beginning in the late 1950s and extending through the early 1970s, astronauts were big celebrities as they ventured where no person had gone before. Millions would watch the first astronaut orbit the...
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Adventures in Astronomy: The Popular Science by Celestron StarSense Explorer...
Back in September, I took a look at one of Celestron’s more modest astronomical offerings, the Popular Science by Celestron Travel Scope 60 Portable Telescope. As I had mentioned in my review, that...
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Netflix Original ‘Don’t Look Up’ Hits the Big Screen Before Streaming
Over the years, there have been several movies about asteroids or comets on a collision course with our planet. In some cases, humans are able to stop the impact from happening while others portray the...
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Observe Both Near and Far With the Celestron Regal ED 10x42mm Roof Binoculars
I wasn’t really looking for a pair of binoculars to review. But when I was regaled with how amazing the optics were on the Regal ED binoculars, and how they had replaced a different pair that cost over...
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Give Dad Some Space This Father’s Day With the Celestron StarSense Explorer...
Is your dad a fan of stargazing, but he’s been relying on an old pair of second-hand binoculars to watch the night sky? This Father’s Day, maybe he deserves an upgrade. Something that’s easy to use for...
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NASA’s Webb Space Telescope Shows Off
President Biden helped show off the first released image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope on Monday afternoon and for space geeks, it’s an amazing step forward in our view of the universe, a...
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Stack Overflow: To Infinity and Beyond
I grew up near Cape Canaveral, so the space program was always a part of my environment as a kid. The first Space Shuttle launch happened when I was still a little kid, and all up through high school I...
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Explore the Sky as Never Before With the Celestron StarSense Explorer 8″...
The Dobsonian telescope is a design popularized by amateur astronomer John Dobson in 1965. A Dobsonian is an an altazimuth-mounted Newtonian telescope that is large, portable, and low-cost for its...
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Watch the Annular Solar Eclipse Safely With EclipSmart Products From Celestron
On October 14th, the United States will see its first annular solar eclipse since 2012. An annular solar eclipse happens when the Moon passes between the Sun and Earth while at its farthest point from...
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Stargazing Redefined: Introducing the Celestron Origin
Celestron announced today what they’re billing as “the word’s first intelligent home observatory.” Building off of their 60+ years of experience in telescopes and premier optical consumer goods,...
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View the Total Solar Eclipse With the EclipSmart 10X42mm Porro Solar Binoculars
In just a few weeks, on April 8, 2024, the first total solar eclipse since 2017 will occur. It will cross North America, passing over Mexico, the United States, and Canada. This will also be the last...
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Click That Brick! LEGO Asks Kids to Explore Space Their Way
A new global study by the LEGO Group recently revealed that 86 percent of kids are interested in finding new planets, stars, and galaxies, and 77 percent want to travel to space. Additionally, more...
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Kickstarter Quick Picks: Unistellar Envision Smart Binoculars
UNISTELLAR, the company behind the Odyssey smart telescope, just launched a Kickstarter campaign for ENVISION, a set of smart binoculars. So, what makes binoculars “smart”? What Are Kickstarter Quick...
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Adventures in Astronomy: The ODYSSEY PRO Smart Telescope by UNISTELLAR
In 2017, French company UNISTELLAR launched their first Kickstarter campaign for the eVscope, a telescope that used Enhance Vision Technology to get the light gathering power of telescopes ten times...
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