Planets with many neighbors may be the best places to look for life0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 20, 2020
Single exoplanets with wild orbits hint at a chaotic past
Single exoplanets with wild orbits hint at a chaotic past
Astronomers have detected two more millisecond-duration radio bursts from SGR 1935+2154, a magnetar located over 14,000 light-years away in the constellation of Vulpecula. The detection supports the hypothesis that — at least some — fast radio bursts are emitted by magnetars at cosmological distances.
When the meteorite NWA 7533 was discovered in 2011, it was recognized to be rare and precious, a piece of Mars knocked off by an asteroid impact. Now planetary scientists have discovered it’s more than rare, it’s unique — the only object we’ve found forged deep inside Mars, providing an unprecedented opportunity to learn about the Martian interior.
With no way to safely repair it, the National Science Foundation calls it.
The result could help explain some of the weird properties of H20
There has been a significant increase in sightings of UFO’s in 2020, both here in Minnesota and across the nation, according to groups who track such events.
Growing plants in Red Planet soil will require adding nutrients and removing toxic chemicals
Stratolaunch has started construction on a prototype hypersonic vehicle designed to launch from the world’s biggest airplane.
Two stars merged, spewing out debris in opposite directions to form two glowing cones
New results from the CMS Collaboration at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider demonstrate for the first time that top quarks are produced in nucleus-nucleus collisions. The results open the path to study in a new and unique way the extreme state of matter that is thought to have existed shortly after the Big Bang.