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Space museum reaches for the stars with new Nintendo game

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Sonia Mendes
Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation
Oct 17, 2019
Staff at the Canada Aviation and Space Museum helped launch StarBlox Inc., a new game for Nintendo Switch. Read more about the museum’s approach to making the game — and hear an audio clip from CBC’s All in a Day.
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The Coldest Place in the Universe

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Jesse Rogerson, PhD
Canada Aviation and Space Museum
Jul 25, 2017
The Boomerang Nebula is the coldest location in the known universe: it measures at roughly 2 degrees colder than empty space! This nebula is the result of the death of a red giant star, and the extreme temperature is caused by the rapid expansion of the nebula. According to thermodynamics, if you expand a gas you, cool a gas (just try using one of those compressed air cans for cleaning electronics). However, according to astronomers, a single star's death could not account for a strong enough
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What to do about Space Junk

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Jesse Rogerson, PhD
Canada Aviation and Space Museum
Apr 21, 2017
Human's have been launching satellites into space since 1957, and now the current number of objects in orbit larger than 10 cm is about 23,000. The growing number poses a real threat to the future of space exploration. Humanity will need to solve this problem moving forward, and ideas are currently being discussed.

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