NIEUWSTE STERREN AAN DE HEMEL

April by night

'Every so often, I like to stick my head out the window. To look at the stars, and smile for a satellite picture.' De meesten onder ons kijken zo af en ...[meer...]

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Nobody can agree where space starts, and the 20 kilometres in dispute now matter to astronaut wings, space tourism and hypersonic weapons 15.10.2026
In 1967 the Americans had a spare rocket at Woomera, and Australia built a 45-kilogram satellite to fly on it in eleven months 14.10.2026
MIT built a ring of copper wire around Earth in 1963, and more than 20 clumps of it are still in orbit 08.10.2026
A Dutch schoolteacher clicking through galaxy images on a volunteer website in 2007 flagged a green smudge she couldn’t identify and asked what it was. It turned out to be a cloud of gas lit by a quasar that had already switched off, and astronomers named the object after her. 24.09.2026
To reach Jupiter, Juice took a detour past Venus, then returned to Earth on 28 September for a successful gravity boost while using our Moon to rehearse the navigation it will need around Jupiter’s icy moons. 23.09.2026
In 2001, Taco Bell anchored a 40-foot floating target off Australia and promised every American a free taco if the falling Mir space station hit it — and the company took out an insurance policy against a direct strike before the 130-ton station came down 23.09.2026
German sailors threw thousands of bottles overboard between 1864 and 1933 to chart ocean currents, and in 2018 a woman walking an Australian beach picked one up, 132 years after a captain logged it going over the rail — and the note’s details matched the ship’s journal exactly 23.09.2026
Melbourne gave each of its 70,000 street trees an ID number and an email address in 2013 so residents could report dropped limbs, and instead the trees received thousands of love letters from around the world, which city staff sometimes answer in the voice of the tree 23.09.2026

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