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Discovery Alert: The Planet that Shouldn’t Be There
A large, gaseous exoplanet orbits a red giant star that should have destroyed it. It’s 530 light-years from Earth.... Read more »
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Watch a dust devil swirl across Mars in this video from NASA's Perseverance rover
NASA's Perseverance rover captured video of a dust devil moving along the western rim of Mars' Jezero Crater on Aug. 30, 2023.... Read more » - ●NASA has selected four small explorer missions to conduct concept studies.... Read more »
- ●September 2023 Each month, NASA’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office releases a monthly update featuring the most recent figures on NASA’s planetary defense efforts, near-Earth object close approaches, and other timely facts about... Read more »
- ●After surviving its closest approach to the sun, Comet Nishimura was buffeted by a possible coronal mass ejection that briefly blew its... Read more »
- ●The only planet that continues 'out of the loop' in October is Mars, which will remain out of sight, too near the... Read more »
- ●Media accreditation is open through Oct. 18, 2023, for SpaceX’s 29th commercial resupply mission for NASA to the International Space Station.... Read more »
- ●NASA has selected SpaceX of Hawthorne, California, and its Falcon 9 rocket to provide the launch service for the agency’s TRACERS (Tandem... Read more »
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It's Official, Antimatter Falls Down in Gravity, Not UpSince the discovery of antimatter decades ago, particle physicists have wondered if these particles were repulsed by gravity. Einstein predicted that despite... Read more »
- ●Two decades of Hubble Space Telescope data reveal the stunning threads of a dead star's leftovers.... Read more »
- ●A New Planet-Hunting Instrument Has Been Installed on the Very Large TelescopeA new study shows how existing observatories like the ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) can be upgraded to perform cutting-edge astronomy The... Read more »
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NASA’s Psyche now set to launch October 12
With just under two weeks until its planned launch, NASA’s Psyche mission has been rescheduled. As per a NASA blog post, the... Read more » - ●In celebration of National Hispanic Heritage Month, the NASA Office of Small Business Programs (OSBP) is highlighting the contributions made by Hispanic-owned... Read more »
- ●New photos from Stoke Space show the successful test flight, Hopper2, bringing the company one step closer toward developing fully reusable rockets.... Read more »
- ●NASA has announced an updated plan to continue New Horizons’ mission of exploration of the outer solar system. Beginning in fiscal year... Read more »
- ●An annular eclipse occurs when the Sun, the Moon, and Earth line up, just like a total eclipse. In the case, however,... Read more »
- ●Dr. Dalia Kirschbaum and Dr. John Bolten, both of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, received American Geophysical Union (AGU)... Read more »
- ●For the first time, astronomers have directly imaged the faint glow of the diffuse cosmic web that stretches throughout the known the... Read more »
- ●Dark Matter Could Be Annihilating Inside White DwarfsAstronomers still don't know what dark matter is, but one of its characteristics is that it has a small "cross section," which... Read more »
- ●NASA is funding eight new studies aimed at better understanding how the human body reacts to spaceflight. These studies will be done... Read more »
- ●Lose Yourself in the JWST’s Exquisite Image of Barnard’s GalaxyThere may come a day when we grow weary of JWST images. But it’s not today. Today, we can lose ourselves in... Read more »
- ●Crew members aboard the International Space Station conducted a variety of scientific investigations during the week ending Sept. 29, 2023, including FLARE.... Read more »
- ●A new class of proteins found in methane deposits on Earth's seafloor could help inform the search for alien life.... Read more »
- ●Want to Safely Watch the Sun With a Large Group? Get a Disco BallThe upcoming solar eclipses and the current high sunspot activity means it’s a great time to observe the Sun. Eclipses also mean... Read more »
- ●The James Webb Space Telescope has snapped a stunning image of a perfectly formed Einstein ring, which is also the most distant... Read more »
- ●Friday, September 29The end of the month brings us the September Full Moon, also known as the Harvest Moon. Full Moon officially... Read more »
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Week in images: 25-29 September 2023
Week in images: 25-29 September 2023 Discover our week through the lens... Read more »
- ●A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch 22 Starlink satellites from Florida's Space Coast this evening (Sept. 29), and you can watch... Read more »
- ●From eye safety to backcountry travel, here's how to stay out of harm's way when eclipse-chasing and observing the 'ring of fire'... Read more »
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This Week's Sky at a Glance, September 29 – October 8The Moon pairs with Jupiter, then the Pleiades, as it departs the evening sky. That leaves a dark-sky Milky Way crossing the... Read more » - ●This Week's Sky at a Glance, September 29 – October 8The Moon pairs with Jupiter, then the Pleiades, as it departs the evening sky. That leaves a dark-sky Milky Way crossing the... Read more »
- ●This Week's Sky at a Glance, September 29 – October 8The Moon pairs with Jupiter, then the Pleiades, as it departs the evening sky. That leaves a dark-sky Milky Way crossing the... Read more »
- ●This Week's Sky at a Glance, September 29 – October 8The Moon pairs with Jupiter, then the Pleiades, as it departs the evening sky. That leaves a dark-sky Milky Way crossing the... Read more »
- ●Image: Part of the Southern Patagonian Ice Field with its white glaciers and aquamarine lakes is featured in this Copernicus Sentinel-2 image... Read more »
- Colliding Moons Might Have Created Saturn’s RingsIf we could wind the clock back billions of years, we’d see our Solar System the way it used to be. Planetesimals... Read more »
- Is it Life, or is it Volcanoes?Astronomers are working hard to understand biosignatures and how they indicate life’s presence on an exoplanet. But each planet we encounter is... Read more »
- How Did Two Hot and Super-dense Neptunes Form?Astronomers have discovered two Neptune-size planets that are denser than rock and in searingly close orbits to their star. How did these... Read more »
- If Earth is Average, We Should Find Extraterrestrial Life Within 60 Light-YearsA new study estimates that there could be 11,000 habitable planets within 100 parsecs of our Sun, the nearest being 20 parsecs... Read more »
September full moon 2023 is a super Harvest MoonThe September full moon - the Harvest Moon supermoon - happens overnight on September 28-29, 2023. This full moon lies between Jupiter... Read more »
- What makes the Harvest Moon special?The Northern Hemisphere's Harvest Moon falls overnight September 28-29, 2023, or almost 6 days after the September equinox. It's also a supermoon!... Read more »
- Sycamore Gap tree in the UK, remembered in imagesSycamore Gap tree in Northumberland National Park was felled overnight last night (September 27-28, 2023). Here are a few of the many... Read more »
- When September’s Full Harvest Moon rises above the horizon Friday evening, it will be the final big, bright Super Moon of the... Read more »
- The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has detected the earliest and most direct signature for carbon-rich dust grains from the early universe.... Read more »
- This year marks 100 years since the births of two pioneers in the search for life on Mars. Joan Oró and Gilbert... Read more »
- Last of 4 full supermoons for 2023 is tonightWe had 4 full supermoons in a row in 2023. The last one for this year is tonight. Supermoons look brighter than ordinary full... Read more »
- Sun activity is moderate, with an M flare by newcomer AR3450Sun activity for September 28 goes moderate with an M1.3 flare by newcomer sunspot AR3450. Large prominence in the solar north pole.... Read more »
- Guy Ottewell’s Astronomical Calendar 2024 is hereThe popular and information Astronomical Calendar for 2024 by Guy Ottewell is available. It comes in either electronic or printed form. Learn... Read more »
- The Biofilms study continues its cosmic quest to combat bacterial contamination. With three experiments aboard the International Space Station, it's on a... Read more »
- NASA Opens the Lid on OSIRIS-REx's Sample CapsuleNASA teams have started the intricate process of removing the samples of asteroid Bennu from their canister. The post NASA Opens the... Read more »
- How Do Lava Worlds Become Earth-Like, Living Planets?Earth was once entirely molten. Planetary scientists call this phase in a planet’s evolution a magma ocean, and Earth may have had... Read more »
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