What space objects, discovered in 1801, are typically found between Mars and Jupiter?
Black holes are mysterious space objects with gravitational pulls so powerful they suck in everything around them including light.
In recent years, several space objects have taken astronomers by surprise, serving as a reminder that our cosmic neighbourhood remains a busy place.
Military commander Major General Igor Makushev said the military will develop a series of measures aimed at protecting Russia from falling meteorites and other dangerous space objects.
In 2002, China and Russia proposed a treaty banning the deployment of weapons in space or attacks against space-based objects.
Feng Shui looks at how the placement of things and objects within the space affect the energy flow in your environment, and how these objects interact with and influence your personal energy flow.
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It blasted a disused weather satellite into tiny fragments that threaten the safety of other man-made objects in space.
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Producers of atoms still can't beam the physical objects through space, but they can use bitspeed--digital coordination of all kinds--to bring reaction time down dramatically.
His plan included architectural interventions on every floor, subtle manipulations of material and details consistent with the artist's career-long fascination with how we experience objects in space.
The USNS Observation Island, a ship that uses telemetry to monitor objects in space, will collect information on the satellite both before and after the missile launch.
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The combination of giving developers full control over dimensionality and the quality of movement of objects within that space will open up galaxies of new possibilities.
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But we are the only species to have defined a geological period by our activity something usually performed by major glaciations, mass extinction and the colossal impact of objects from outer space, like the one that defines the upper boundary of the Cretaceous.
By offering a brand new visual perspective that enables students to interact with 3D objects in virtual space, Vimensio is facilitating teachers to take a novel approach and challenge students in an engaging way that can inspire and motivate classrooms to conceptualize and learn in ways never before possible.
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The most beautiful, subdued and quiet section is the Lyda Hill Gems and Minerals Hall, a low-lit space with blackened vitrines in which objects are brilliantly lighted, as in an art museum: case after case of minerals you have heard of (gold, quartz and tourmaline), and others, even more dazzling, that you probably have not (rhodochrosite).
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The paint (and later, water) reveals the 3D space behind the white, helping identify objects, walls and pathways.
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The manoeuvre ensured Vega limits its contribution to the growing population of redundant objects that now litter the space environment.
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It maps its own environment and uses an array of sophisticated sensors to autonomously move about a busy space without interfering with people or other objects.
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You can buy beautiful blenders, retro washing machines and vacuums that look like objects d'art from the space museum, but AC design has been frozen since the Summer of Sam.
Yeomans and colleagues are using telescopes on the ground and in space to nail down the precise orbit of objects that might threaten Earth and predict whether the planet could be hit.
And there are plenty of variations on the theme: A version of the Levitron called "Floating Ideas" gives you a base over which you can float a variety of objects, including models of the space shuttle, a VW Beetle and a picture frame.
Roskosmos, Russia's space agency, said it was impossible to track objects falling as fast as the meteor.
Einstein's general theory of relativity states that objects with mass cause a curvature in space-time, which we perceive as gravity.
Given existing space situational awareness capabilities, over 20, 000 objects are now tracked.
Opportunities to photograph Mercury from space are also limited because light sensitive equipment, such as the Hubble Space Telescope, are not allowed to look at objects close to the Sun, such as Mercury or Venus.
"Today's event is a strong reminder of why we need continuous efforts to survey and identify near-Earth objects, " said Thomas Reiter, European Space Agency's Director of Human Spaceflight and Operations.
Travel, or moving objects from one set of coordinates in our physical space, is difficult and expensive.
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Similarly, people who excel at packing odd shaped objects in way that maximizes the use of storage space are able to do this because they have developed complex spatial reasoning skills.
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About 70 everyday objects which were sent 18 miles (30km) into space from a Somerset school have gone missing.
Once the work is completed, the heritage trust hopes to create a new 971 square metre exhibition space, allowing the museum to display some of the large industrial objects in its reserve collections for the first time.
Filling a neoclassical courtyard, the addition that opened last fall tripled the space devoted to Islamic art and more than doubled the number of objects on view to almost 3, 000, or about a sixth of the museum's works from the Islamic world.
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