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AFP ONS News•yesterday, 9:28 p.m.•Amended yesterday, 23:01 Apple will store user data more securely in iCloud. Data will soon be written to the storage service with end-to-end encryption, meaning no one outside of the user will be able to see the data. The new feature will be available in the United States starting this month and in the rest of …

Door Robbert van der Linde 07 dec 2022 om 16:56 Mars will be at its closest possible distance from Earth overnight Wednesday through Thursday. The red planet is therefore clearly visible. Extra special is that it is also a full moon. From Earth, you can see that Mars briefly disappears behind the Moon. To observe it from the Netherlands, you …

Many objects in the night sky are only visible through binoculars or a telescope, but not the Pleiades or the Seven Stars. This cluster of open, twinkling stars is easy to spot with the naked eye this winter. You can find the Seven Sisters in the constellation of Taurus. The star cluster is fairly easy to find if you know …

The selfies and portraits the app takes of you are therefore not real, it is actually a computer drawing of yourself. Tech journalist Erwin Vogelaar from NU.nl explains how the app works. “As a user, you select 10-20 photos of yourself that show you clearly. These are processed in the cloud and then a whole bunch of new photos are …

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New images from the James Webb Telescope have excited astronomers around the world. The astronomer has captured clouds in the atmosphere of Saturn’s largest moon Titan for the first time. The James Webb Telescope targeted Titan on November 5. With its infrared telescope, the telescope detected two large clouds in the atmosphere. Computer models had previously predicted that clouds might …

The unfortunate star was completely shredded, resulting in a record-breaking luminous explosion that emitted more light than 1,000 trillion suns combined! Earlier this year, astronomers discovered an unusually bright source of light in the night sky. Several telescopes, including the Very Large Telescope (VLT), have been pointed at the mysterious source by researchers around the world. And guess what? The …

In one of the images, there even appears to be an eclipse and the moon is seen obscuring much of the earth. The Orion unmanned spacecraft is on its ultimate test mission. And this takes the spacecraft developed by the US space agency not only to the moon, but also far beyond. Having already hovered over the lunar surface some …

29 nov 2022 om 01:07Update: 3 uur geleden The Orion spacecraft broke a decades-old record during its mission around the moon. The spacecraft has traveled 430,000 kilometers since its launch. It’s the farthest a spacecraft designed to carry humans has ever travelled, reported Nasa Monday evening. The previous record was still held by the Apollo 13 mission from 1970. The …

In 2013, Hubble celebrated its 23rd anniversary with this stunning image of one of the most beautiful dark nebulae in the night sky: the Horsehead Nebula. The Dark Horsehead Nebula is made up of cold gas and dust. The nebula is clearly visible because its silhouette blocks light from the brightfield nebula (IC 434). The horse being a noble animal, …