News: Astronomy Photo of the Day

Berthoud Recorder has an article mentioning: "... artist?s illustration, NASA?s NanoSail-D finally unfurled a very thin, 10 square meter reflective sail on January 20th, becoming the first solar sail spacecraft in low Earth orbit. Often considered the stuff of science fiction , sailing through space was suggested 400 years ago by astronomer ..."

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