space

New research explores how super flares affect planets’ habitability 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 15, 2020
Largest ever sample of super flares

By David Aragorn
NASA selects first human-tended suborbital research payload 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 15, 2020
NASA has selected its first human-tended commercial suborbital research payload, clearing the way for the biggest advocate of such research to fly on a future Virgin Galactic mission.

By David Aragorn
One-Billion-Year-Old Sand Dunes Spotted on Mars 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 14, 2020
Planetary researchers have mapped and characterized ancient sand dune fields in the canyons of Valles Marineris on Mars. Their discovery offers new insights on past climatic conditions on the Red Planet.

By David Aragorn
ESO telescopes record the final moments of a star being consumed by a black hole 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 14, 2020
Telescopes at the European Southern Observatory and other organizations worldwide have spied a rare blast of light originating from a star as it was being ripped apart by a supermassive black hole.

By David Aragorn
European Space Agency finalises plans to ‘explore the moon properly’0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 14, 2020
Ambitious series of joint missions aims to construct a crewed space station that will orbit the moon

By David Aragorn
Astronomers Detect Vaporized Metals in Atmosphere of Hot Jupiter 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 10, 2020
Astronomers using the HARPS (High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher) spectrograph at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile have detected gaseous magnesium (Mg), sodium (Na), calcium (Ca), chromium (Cr), iron (Fe), nickel (Ni) and vanadium (V) in the atmosphere of WASP-121b, a hot-Jupiter exoplanet approximately 881 light-years away in the constellation of Puppis.

By David Aragorn
Planets more hospitable to life than Earth may already have been discovered 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 10, 2020
At least two dozen planets outside the solar system might be better for life than Earth.

By David Aragorn
Asteroid Bennu may have been home to ancient water flows 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 9, 2020
A stream of new studies reveals clues about Bennu’s past, just days before NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission attempts to collect rocks from the asteroid.

By David Aragorn
Astronomers Directly Image Gas-Giant Exoplanet Beta Pictoris c 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 9, 2020
Astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer have captured the first direct images of the recently-discovered giant planet Beta Pictoris c.

By David Aragorn
Planets Don’t Wait for Their Star to Form First 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 9, 2020
It looks like we may have to update our theories on how stars and planets form in new solar systems.

By David Aragorn