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Sunday, May 13, 2018

SpaceX launched a new version of Falcon 9


Falcon 9 launched vehicle will put into orbit a satellite for Bangladesh.Company Ilona Mask SpaceX has launched into space a new modification of the rocket Falcon 9 Block 5 which is to bring into orbit the Earth satellite Bangabandhu Satellite-1 commissioned by the Government of Bangladesh. The launch was carried out at 23:14 on Friday, May 11, in Kyiv time.

Thursday, May 10, 2018

An asteroid on the cold outer edge of the solar system


The international team of astronomers discovered in the Kuiper belt an extraordinary object that turned out to be, as it turned out, a carbon-rich asteroid. This asteroid became the first of its kind object identified on the cold outer edge of the solar system. Probably, this mysterious object formed in the Main asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter,

The first time that an "exploding pulsar" was a slow-pulsating transient pulsar


The University of Southampton, Great Britain, discovered that a unique "exploding pulsar" - a neutron star that "pulls" matter from a companion star - may also be the slowest transient pulsar known to science. Transient pulsars are a rare class of neutron stars that perform transitions from x-ray to radio pulsations and back for several years.