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A new program aimed at increasing career opportunities in aerospace, aviation and more will be coming to Adams County’s Colorado Air and Spaceport, thanks to an agreement with the University of Denver.
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The space just outside Earth’s atmosphere is getting a little crowded. And that could result in interruptions to the thousands of satellites that help power our weather forecasting and communications. A unique conference at CU Boulder this week asks tough questions about how to regulate outer space.
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Ed Dwight, America's first Black astronaut candidate, has finally made it to space 60 years later, flying with Jeff Bezos' rocket company. The 90-year-old Dwight blasted off from West Texas with five other passengers on Sunday.
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Saturday is May the 4th – also known to fans as Star Wars Day. To celebrate, we sit down to talk with Connie Willis, one of science fiction's most notable writers, who happens to live here in Northern Colorado. She shares her thoughts on our weird obsession with UFOs... and on why it's so important to contemplate the future.
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The eclipse will take place around 10:30 a.m. Mountain Time, and mainly go over Nevada, Utah and New Mexico. It will also touch the Southwest corners of Colorado and Idaho.
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An instrument developed by researchers at CU Boulder will be launching next fall to study Jupiter’s moon, Europa.
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For the first time, scientists at the University of Colorado Boulder have taken pictures of the sun's middle corona, one layer of the solar atmosphere responsible for spitting out material known as solar flares. The images could improve space weather forecasting and how we prepare for it on Earth.
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Astronaut Megan McArthur grew up visiting national parks like Yosemite, Grand Canyon and Zion. Now she’s photographing them from 250 miles above the surface of Earth.
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For the next week, Colorado’s night skies will be full of shooting stars. Despite the name, they aren’t actually stars — they’re space debris, and they’re part of the annual Perseid meteor shower.
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NASA is planning two missions to Venus in order to study how the planet became Earth’s “evil twin.” Colorado scientists are involved in each stage of the projects, which will launch at the end of the decade.