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NASA and private company SpaceX plan to send humans to Mars within the next 15 years -- but need to figure out how to protect astronauts from the dangerous cosmic radiation of deep space. Now neuroscientists have identified a potential treatment for the brain damage caused by cosmic rays -- a drug that prevents memory impairment in mice exposed to simulated space radiation.
via Science Daily
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There are advances being made almost daily in the disciplines required to make space and its contents accessible. This blog brings together a lot of that info, as it is reported, tracking the small steps into space that will make it just another place we carry out normal human economic, leisure and living activities.
Monday, 21 May 2018
Alien Asteroids Are Here. Get Used to Them.
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An asteroid that cohabits an orbit with Jupiter came from outside the solar system.
via New York Times
An asteroid that cohabits an orbit with Jupiter came from outside the solar system.
via New York Times
Hidden secrets
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Space Science Image of the Week: Herschel reveals massive stars hidden in a dark bubble, triggering the birth of a new stellar generation
via ESA Space Science
http://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2018/05/Hidden_secrets_of_a_massive_star-formation_region
Space Science Image of the Week: Herschel reveals massive stars hidden in a dark bubble, triggering the birth of a new stellar generation
via ESA Space Science
http://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2018/05/Hidden_secrets_of_a_massive_star-formation_region
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