Space

Star releasing huge bursts of energy may be 1st of its kind ever discovered 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 16, 2022
Ultra-long period magnetar is collapsed core of massive star that’s magnetized, rotates slowly

By David Aragorn
Universe Has 40 Quintillion Black Holes Says Study That Sheds Light on Their Origins 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 15, 2022
Astronomers have come up with a new estimate for the total number of black holes in the universe, and the number is mind-bogglingly large—40 quintillion. That’s 4 followed by 19 zeros.

By David Aragorn
Hope for present-day Martian groundwater dries up in new study 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 31, 2022
Liquid water previously detected under Mars’ ice-covered south pole is probably just a dusty mirage, according to a new study of the red planet led by researchers at The University of Texas at Austin.

By David Aragorn
JAMES WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE REACHES ITS FINAL DESTINATION — 1 MILLION MILES FROM EARTH 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 25, 2022
Source: Inverse.com NASA’S JAMES WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE (JWST) has finally reached its cosmic perch, and is gearing up for its observations of the ancient universe. On Monday, JWST settled into its final orbit at the second Sun-Earth Lagrange point, or L2. This is a gravitationally stable point where the Sun and Earth’s gravity cancel each other out. The

By David Aragorn
Saturn’s Moon Mimas Hosts Global Ocean, New Study Suggests 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 22, 2022
Mimas, the smallest and innermost of Saturn’s eight main moons, may be warm enough to harbor a global, liquid water ocean beneath a 24-31-km (15-19-mile) thick ice shell, according to a new analysis of data from NASA’s Cassini mission.

By David Aragorn
An X-ray glow suggests black holes or neutron stars fuel weird cosmic ‘cows’0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 22, 2022
Evidence comes from the fifth — and brightest yet — of a new class of exploding stars

By David Aragorn
Second alien moon identified is much like the first: big and strange 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 18, 2022
For only the second time, astronomers have detected what appears to be a moon orbiting a planet in another solar system. Just like the first time, this one has traits suggesting that such moons may differ greatly from those populating our solar system.

By David Aragorn
Scientists Have Detected a Faint Hint of The Background Hum of The Universe 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 14, 2022
Ever since scientists made the first detection of gravitational waves from a pair of colliding black holes in 2015, evidence has been growing that the Universe ought to be full of them.

By David Aragorn
NASA’s top scientist retires, has a plan to make Mars habitable 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 14, 2022
NASA’s top scientist has worked his final days, and now he’s moving on to greener … planets?

By David Aragorn
Nasa alert as THREE asteroids to ‘skim’ past Earth tomorrow at up to 9000 mph 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 13, 2022
A WHOPPING three asteroids will zip past Earth tomorrow ahead of the nerve-shredding pass of an Empire State Building-sized rock next week.

By David Aragorn