In this week’s edition, Ryan Reynolds goes time travelling, metaverse satire Upload is back for a second season, we go behind the scenes of a local indie sci-fi film and it's time for the best TV nominations in the Ion Sci-Fi Awards.
It's not the same as actually going of course but NASA are offering to take your name on a flash drive into space aboard Artemis I's uncrewed Orion test flight and fly it around the moon.
You only need to provide your name and set a pin code.
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NASA have reported a major achievement. Their Parker solar probe has flown through the sun's upper atmosphere and sampled particles and magnetic fields.
They've released a short and fascinating 5 minute video about the project and what we've already learned from it.
Submitted by ionscifi on November 24, 2021 - 14:50
It looks like the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) will make its first launch window. NASA have advised via twitter that it will launch at 5:21 pm AEDT with live coverage commencing at 4:30 pm AEDT.
NASA have also released a short video of Adam McKay, director of Don't Look Up, comparing his movie to the mission.
NASA have published a new image from the Hubble Space Telescipe showing a 250 light-year wide bubble inside a nebula.
They have a few ideas about what might have caused it but none which completely add up according to our present understanding of giant space explosions.
NASA may have discovered the first evidence of a planet outside of the the Milky Way.
In the Messier 51 (M51) Whirlpool Galaxy.
It's an exciting discovery but more data is required to confirm the planet candidate's location and the method use here may not be viable again for another 70 years because of its wide orbit.
