Five questions about NASA’s plans to visit an alien world in 20690
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- December 30, 2017
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Artificial Intelligence, NASA Data Used to Discover Eighth Planet Circling Distant Star0
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- December 30, 2017
Our solar system now is tied for most number of planets around a single star, with the recent discovery of an eighth planet circling Kepler-90, a Sun-like star 2,545 light-years from Earth. The planet was discovered in data from NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope.
‘Near-Earth’ asteroid set to pass us by today at 21,000mph0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 29, 2017
Object first identified on Christmas Day will travel between our planet and the moon
Giant bubbles on red giant star’s surface0
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- December 28, 2017
Astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope have for the first time directly observed granulation patterns on the surface of a star outside the Solar System — the ageing red giant π1 Gruis. This remarkable new image from the PIONIER instrument reveals the convective cells that make up the surface of this huge star, which has 350 times the diameter of the Sun. Each cell covers more than a quarter of the star’s diameter and measures about 120 million kilometres across. These new results are being published this week in the journal Nature.
Potentially hazardous, near-Earth asteroid, larger than thought0
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- December 28, 2017
Classified as “potentially hazardous”, the near-Earth asteroid 3200 Phaethon has a diameter of about six kilometres — roughly one kilometre larger than previous estimates, new radar images obtained by the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico suggest.
Oumuamua: First alien object to visit our solar system is wrapped in strange organic coat, scientists reveal0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 22, 2017
‘It was the opposite of what I was expecting we might see’
NASA’s next mission will either grab part of a comet, or bop around one of Saturn’s moons0
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- December 22, 2017
Which one will win? We’ll find out in 2019.
A skull-shaped asteroid will approach Earth again in 20180
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 21, 2017
On Oct. 10, 2015, astronomers in Hawaii made a spooky discovery: a giant asteroid between 625 and 700 meters zipping through space, that at certain angles looks uncannily like a human skull.
Water on Mars absorbed like a sponge, new research suggests0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 21, 2017
When searching for life, scientists first look for an element key to sustaining it: fresh water.
Mars And Earth May Not Have Been Early Neighbors0
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- December 21, 2017
A study published in the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters posits that Mars formed in what today is the Asteroid Belt, roughly one and a half times as far from the Sun as its current position, before migrating to its present location.
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