Space

‘Oumuamua might be a shard of a broken planet 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 13, 2020
Simulations led to this new origin story for the first known visitor to our solar system

By David Aragorn
A Spacecraft On Its Way To Mercury Just Captured Some Amazing Images Of Earth 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 11, 2020
In the early hours of this morning, the BepiColombo spacecraft swung past Earth on its way to the inner Solar System – and in the process captured some rather glorious views of our planet.

By David Aragorn
Fine threads of million-degree plasma revealed in sharpest-ever images of sun 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 11, 2020
The sharpest-ever photos of the sun, captured by NASA’s High-Resolution Coronal Imager, Hi-C, have revealed the fine magnetic threads of super heated plasma that make up the sun’s outer layer.

By David Aragorn
A spacecraft is about to swing by Earth to get a gravity assist on its way to Mercury 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 10, 2020
BepiColombo needs our planet’s help

By David Aragorn
Scientists capture image of black hole emitting high-energy jets 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 10, 2020
Detailed image taken by Event Horizon Telescope of black hole 5bn light years away

By David Aragorn
Behold! See the Hubble telescope’s iconic ‘Pillars of Creation’ view in infrared 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 9, 2020
Scientists have revisited one of the most iconic images taken with the Hubble Space Telescope, revealing incredible details in infrared light.

By David Aragorn
Gliese 338Bb: Super-Earth Found in Nearby Binary System 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 9, 2020
Astronomers using the CARMENES spectrograph at Calar Alto Observatory in Spain have discovered a super-Earth exoplanet orbiting an M-dwarf star in the binary system Gliese 338. The newfound planet orbits on the inner edge of the habitable zone and is much more massive than Earth.

By David Aragorn
Universe may not be expanding the same way in all directions, new Nasa and ESA study suggests, challenging fundamental idea of cosmology 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 9, 2020
‘This would contradict one of the most basic underlying assumptions we use in cosmology today’

By David Aragorn
New Paper Suggests Life Could Be Common Across The Universe, Just Not Near Us 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 9, 2020
The building blocks of life can, and did, spontaneously assemble under the right conditions. That’s called spontaneous generation, or abiogenesis.

By David Aragorn
No star, no problem: Radioactivity could make otherwise frozen planets habitable 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 8, 2020
Not too close, but not too far. That’s long been the rule describing how distant a planet should be from its star in order to sustain life. But a new study challenges that adage: A planet can maintain water and other liquids on its surface if it’s heated, not by starlight, but by radioactive decay, researchers calculate. That opens up the possibility for many planets—even free-floating worlds untethered to stars—to host life, they speculate.

By David Aragorn