space

Jupiter Saturn conjunction: How to see the ‘Christmas star’ of 2020 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 17, 2020
Get ready for 21 December 2020, when the “great conjunction” of Jupiter and Saturn brings them closest in the night sky since 1623

By David Aragorn
Canada signs deal to send first astronaut on U.S. mission around the moon 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 17, 2020
Canada will for the first time send an astronaut to circle the moon on a U.S. mission planned for 2023, Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains said on Wednesday, announcing a formal deal with Washington.

By David Aragorn
Hayabusa-2: Pieces of an asteroid found inside space capsule 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 17, 2020
Scientists have been greeted by the sight of jet black chunks of rock and soil from an asteroid after opening a capsule that returned from deep space a week ago.

By David Aragorn
Astronomers detect possible radio emission from exoplanet 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 16, 2020
By monitoring the cosmos with a radio telescope array, an international team of scientists has detected radio bursts emanating from the constellation Boötes — that could be the first radio emission collected from a planet beyond our solar system.

By David Aragorn
TESS Discovers Two Small and Warm Exoplanets 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 16, 2020
Astronomers using data from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) have discovered two exoplanets transiting inactive red dwarf stars TOI-122 and TOI-237.

By David Aragorn
The Milky Way’s central black hole may have turned nearby red giant stars blue 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 15, 2020
A powerful blast from the supermassive black hole may explain a lack of large, red stars there

By David Aragorn
Bizarre alien world may be analog of our solar system’s putative Planet Nine 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 15, 2020
HD 106906 b is interesting for many reasons.

By David Aragorn
Asteroid dust recovered from Japan’s daring Hayabusa2 mission 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 15, 2020
Scientists hope the dark grains from asteroid Ryugu will improve their understanding of the Solar Systems’ formation.

By David Aragorn
China’s Chang’e 5 moon lander is no more after successfully snagging lunar rocks 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 15, 2020
China’s Chang’e 5 lander touched down on the moon and collected the first lunar samples in nearly 50 years, but now the lights have gone out.

By David Aragorn
New 2-D Ruddlesden-Popper (RP) layered perovskite-based solar cells 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- December 12, 2020
In recent years, researchers worldwide have been trying to develop solar cells and other technologies that can produce electrical energy from renewable sources, as these could reduce the emission of greenhouse gases and thus help to preserve life on our planet. Solar cells can be built using a variety of materials, including silicon, copper or other semiconductors.

By David Aragorn