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The Solar System Exists Inside a Giant, Mysterious Void, And We Finally Know Why 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 13, 2022
The Solar System floats in the middle of a peculiarly empty region of space.

By David Aragorn
Chandra Detects Mini-Supermassive Black Hole in Star-Forming Dwarf Galaxy 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 13, 2022
A supermassive black hole with 200,000 solar masses is located in the middle of the dwarf galaxy Markarian 462 (Mrk 462), according to new research led by Dartmouth College astrophysicists.

By David Aragorn
NASA craft ‘touches’ sun for 1st time, dives into atmosphere 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 13, 2022
A NASA spacecraft has officially “touched” the sun, plunging through the unexplored solar atmosphere known as the corona

By David Aragorn
Yes, there is really ‘diamond rain’ on Uranus and Neptune 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 12, 2022
The ice giants Uranus and Neptune don’t get nearly enough press; all the attention goes to their larger siblings, mighty Jupiter and magnificent Saturn.

By David Aragorn
Highly Eccentric Sub-Neptune Found Orbiting Nearby Red Dwarf 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 12, 2022
Using data from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and several ground-based facilities, astronomers have discovered a long-period sub-Neptune exoplanet orbiting TOI-2257. Intriguingly, the planet’s orbit is highly elliptical, suggestive of a possible perturbing outer gas-giant planet in the TOI-2257 system.

By David Aragorn
A big failed Russian rocket just came crashing back to Earth out of control 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 11, 2022
The test of a new upper-stage booster didn’t go as planned.

By David Aragorn
We May Finally Know The Cause of ‘The Cow’, a Freakishly Exciting Space Explosion 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 11, 2022
The cause of a mysterious cosmic kaboom – so bright it led to the classification of a new type of space explosion – may have now been revealed.

By David Aragorn
The rules of space haven’t been updated in 50 years, and the UN says it’s time 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 11, 2022
On November 15, 2021, Russia destroyed one of its own old satellites using a missile launched from the surface of Earth, creating a massive debris cloud that threatens many space assets, including astronauts onboard the International Space Station.

By David Aragorn
Pittsburgh New Year’s Day meteor explosion equivalent to 27 tonnes of TNT, says Nasa 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 7, 2022
If not for clouds, the half-tonne fireball would have been easily visible in the day, maybe about 100 times the brightness of a full moon

By David Aragorn
Strange star behaviour reveals a black hole lurking just outside our galaxy 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 7, 2022
Astronomers used the odd behaviour of a star to locate a black hole ‘hiding’ in the Large Magellanic Cloud.

By David Aragorn