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All good things must come to an end but all bad things can continue forever. I would like to sell Steemit account Busser because I have not time for blogging and do not like to keep things I don't need

News from the Solar System.  Juno spacecraft, orbiting Jupiter,  captured this image on Sept 1 2017 during its eigth flyby of the gas giant. Juno's orbit has form of elongated ellipse and never

OSIRIS-REx spacecraft was launched in September 2016 by Atlas-5 rocket. It will travel  to a half-kilometer sized asteroid Bennu (101955) and bring samples back to Earth for study in 2023. Image:

Since the beginnig of August west of Greenland, an island with 80% of the surface occupied by ice shield,  is covered by gray smoke from peatland fires. Image: ESA Peat fires are difficult to stop,

Tau Ceti is a star in the constellation Cetus located 12 light years (3.7 parsecs) away.  With mass 78% of our Sun and spectral type G8.5 it is one of two Sun-like stars in 15 light years range. Tau

Bright system of clouds first seen on Neptune in June  is a storm system nearly the size of Earth. It was discovered by Ned Molter, a UC Berkeley astronomy graduate student. His idea was to prove

Lunatix, a team of space engineers, developed jumping nano-rover that would be used in augmented reality scenarios on the Moon. The main idea is to explore the Moon with the help of the huge game

It was thought previously that exoplanets orbiting stars similar to our Sun would go through water-rich phases when young star starts warming, becomes Sun-like, and melts the ice on planets located in

Project Global Forest Watch (GFW) monitors changes in Earth's forest cover analysing satellite images with resolution 30 meters per pixel. Previous data set, released in 2013, revealed that area of forest

Breakthrough Starshot, a program funded by Yuri Milner and Stephen Hawking to develop and launch interstellar missions, flew its first prototypes of the future space probes - the smallest ever launched.

The world consisting entirely of sky - is it possible? This is a setting for sci-fi novel The Integral Trees, written by Larry Niven in 1981. The concept is well worked out and is quite viable. There

Sunday's walk in the woods. In the end of July grass snakes (non poisonous) gather in crowds. I don't know whether it is mating or just "social networking". Better to ask Steemit Snake-Master - @herpetologyguy

NASA awarded Lockheed Martin (LM) a Phase II contract for the deep space habitat study. Under this contract LM is developing a full scale prototype  as part of the space agency’s plans to build a

JUICE (JUpiter ICy moons Explorer) - next flagship ESA mission to explore Jovian system. Its final design is approved by ESA, and the construction is being overseen by Airbus Defence and Space. After launch

M-type asteroids are a relatively rare type of asteroid in the main asteroid belt, located between Mars and Jupiter. Some of them are made of nickel-iron. While they are mostly reddish un color it is very

Every 26 months Mars passes directly behind the Sun if to look from Earth.  This arrangement, and the period during which it occurs, is called Mars solar conjunction. Radio transmissions between the

First autonomous drone specially designed for zero-gravity is developed by Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). Its name is Internal Ball Camera - in short Int-Ball. Quite "Star Wars"  looking

Using actual New Horizons data  on Pluto and its largest moon Charon, mission scientists have created flyover movies that offer spectacular new perspectives of the many unusual features that were

In April and May radio astronomers from Arecibo Observatory conducted a scientific campaign to observe red dwarf with planets. They are exploring radiation and magnetic environment around selected stars

Discovery of  star system TRAPPIST-1 with 7 Earth-sized planets, 3 of which are located in habitable zone, caused a burst of opimism about search of life beyond Earth. However, because of its compact