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Mar 06, 2016

SpaceX Falcon Makes Clean Getaway

After some postponements the Falcon rocket left its Florida pad.
The Falcon has placed a telecommunications satellite in orbit for the Luxembourg operator SES.
This platform will relay video and other services across the Asia-Pacific region.
An attempt was made to fly the lower stage of the Falcon rocket back to Earth after it had sent the satellite on its way.
A drone ship was placed more than 600 km offshore in the Atlantic Ocean to receive the returning booster - but the procedure was unsuccessful.

Mar 04, 2016

Farthest Known Galaxy in Universe

A team of astronomers have spotted the farthest galaxy ever seen in the universe.
This bright infant galaxy is named GN-z1.
GN-z11 is 25 times smaller than the Milky Way and has just one percent of our galaxy`s mass in stars.
However, the newborn GN-z11 is growing fast, forming stars at a rate about 20 times greater than our galaxy does today.

Mar 02, 2016

Tim Kopra Takes Charge of International Space Station

American astronaut Scott Kelly descends down to Earth from the International Space Station.
Kelly officially handed over the baton of the International Space Station to Tim Kopra.
Expedition 47 will officially begin under Kopra’s command when the Soyuz spacecraft carrying Kelly and Russian cosmonauts Mikhail Kornienko and Sergey Volkov undocks from the space station.

Feb 29, 2016

China to Launch Second Space Lab

China will send its second orbiting space lab Tiangong-2 into space in the third quarter of this year.
China also plans to launch the Shenzhou-11 spacecraft, which will carry two astronauts on board, in the fourth quarter of this year to dock with Tiangong-2.
China\'s multi-billion-dollar space programme aims to put a permanent manned space station into service around 2022.
China already launched its first space lab, Tiangong-1, in September 2011.

Feb 28, 2016

Blue Bubble Encircling Wolf-Rayet Star Spotted

Hubble has spotted a bright and shining Wolf-Rayet star, also known as WR 31a, located about 30,000 light years away in the constellation of Carina (The Keel).
The star seems to be enclosed in a distinctive blue bubble, called Wolf-Rayet nebula.
According to NASA, the bubble is an interstellar cloud of dust, hydrogen, helium and other gases.

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