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Trump names billionaire private astronaut as next NASA chief (Image Credit: Phys.org) US fintech billionaire Jared Isaacman (EV1) peeks out to space from a hatch structure called “Skywalker,” during the first private spacewalk performed by the crew of the SpaceX Polaris Dawn mission. US President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday nominated Jared Isaacman, […]
Astronomers close to solving mystery of how universe’s giant galaxies formed (Image Credit: Phys.org) Two antennae galaxies colliding. Credit: NASA Astronomers say they are close to solving an intergalactic mystery about the creation of the universe’s biggest galaxies which has puzzled experts for decades. Scientists have discovered the birth sites of gigantic […]
Webb finds new galaxies in Spiderweb protocluster field (Image Credit: Phys.org) Galaxy distribution in the Spiderweb Protocluster Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, H. Dannerbauer Using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, an international team of astronomers have found new galaxies in the Spiderweb protocluster. Their characteristics shed light on the growth of […]
Dynamic tracking technique can reduce noise in gravitational-wave detectors to peer deeper into the cosmos (Image Credit: Phys.org) The proof-of-concept experiment demonstrates the potential of dynamic tracking in larger-scale systems, such as gravitational-wave observatories. Credit: Olivia Crowell, Louisiana State University Researchers have shown that optical spring tracking is a promising way to […]
Experts Worried That Destroying the Space Station Will Damage the Earth’s Environment (Image Credit: futurism-com) NASA is gearing up to slowly lower the orbit of the International Space Station until it burns through the Earth’s atmosphere and drops into the ocean, starting around 2030. The agency says the station’s demise will be […]
Why we can’t just name a quasi-moon ‘Moony McMoonface’ (Image Credit: Space.com) During the summer of 2022, just after the James Webb Space Telescope started sending us a steady stream of deep-space postcards, astronomer Steven Finkelstein and his team found a mysterious red splotch in one of those data deliveries. They’d spotted […]
India delays launch of European Proba-3 satellites to Dec. 5 to create artificial eclipses in space (Image Credit: Space.com) PSLV-C59/PROBA-3 Mission – YouTube Watch On A European mission that will use two satellites to create artificial eclipses in Earth orbit will now launch early Thursday morning (Dec. 5) after a delay, and […]
Solar maximum just knocked 3 satellites out of orbit. Here’s why more may be on the way. (Image Credit: Space.com) In early November, three tiny Australian satellites from Curtin University’s Binar Space Program burned up in Earth’s atmosphere. That was always going to happen. In fact, Binar means “fireball” in the Noongar […]
Asteroid the size of 3 million elephants zooms past Earth (Image Credit: Space.com) Earth got a relatively close shave this morning (Dec. 4), as a sizable space rock zipped by just 1.4 million miles (2.2 million kilometers) away. The asteroid, called 2020 XR, made its closest approach today at approximately 12:26 a.m. […]
James Webb Space Telescope discovers 4th exoplanet in sweet triple ‘super puff’ star system (Image Credit: Space.com) Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have discovered a fourth world in a strange system of ultralight “super puff” planets. The new extrasolar planet or “exoplanet” was discovered around the sun-like star Kepler-51, […]
