space

There’s too much gold in the universe. No one knows where it came from.0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 5, 2020
Something is showering gold across the universe. But no one knows what it is.

By David Aragorn
NASA Has a New Challenge to Bring Frozen Samples of the Moon Back to Earth 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 3, 2020
When astronauts return to the Moon for the first time since the Apollo Era, they will be tasked with conducting some very lucrative science operations.

By David Aragorn
Chandra Spots Possible Extragalactic Planet in Messier 51 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 3, 2020
Astronomers using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory have detected an extragalactic candidate planet circling a binary system in Messier 51 (also known as M51, the Whirlpool Galaxy and NGC 5194), an interacting grand design spiral galaxy located some 26 million light-years away in the constellation of Canes Venatici.

By David Aragorn
A NASA Probe May Have Found Signs of Life on Venus 40 Years Ago 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 3, 2020
Data from an old NASA mission to our sister planet may contain overlooked evidence for the gas phosphine, a potential biosignature

By David Aragorn
Space Force Will Eventually Put Troops in Orbit, Ops Boss Says 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 3, 2020
Military troops in the Space Force will someday deploy to orbit, one of the service’s top operations officials said Sept. 29.

By David Aragorn
Astronauts trace air leak to Russian side of space station after midnight alarm 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 2, 2020
Nasa officials stress that the leak on ISS remains small and poses no danger but will send extra air supply on the next delivery

By David Aragorn
ESA Releases Solar Orbiter’s First Science Data 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 2, 2020
ESA’s Solar Orbiter spacecraft, in collaboration with NASA, launched in February 2020 on its mission to study to Sun and it began collecting science data in June. Now, three of its ten instruments — the Energetic Particle Detector (EPD), the Radio and Plasma Waves (RPW) instrument, and the Magnetometer (MAG) — have released their first science data, revealing the state of our star in a ‘quiet’ phase.

By David Aragorn
Giant black hole discovered at centre of cosmic ‘spider’s web’0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 2, 2020
Astronomers have discovered six galaxies ensnared in the cosmic “spider’s web” of a supermassive black hole soon after the Big Bang, according to research published Thursday that could help explain the development of these enigmatic monsters.

By David Aragorn
Jupiter may be the reason Venus isn’t habitable today 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 2, 2020
Scientists believe that Jupiter may be the reason Venus can’t have nice things.

By David Aragorn
The Milky Way’s most massive star cluster may have eaten a smaller cluster 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 1, 2020
The Milky Way’s core harbors two giants: the galaxy’s largest black hole and a cluster of tens of millions of stars around the black hole that is denser and more massive than any other star cluster in the galaxy.

By David Aragorn