NASA craft ‘touches’ sun for 1st time, dives into atmosphere0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 13, 2022
A NASA spacecraft has officially “touched” the sun, plunging through the unexplored solar atmosphere known as the corona
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Yes, there is really ‘diamond rain’ on Uranus and Neptune0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 12, 2022
The ice giants Uranus and Neptune don’t get nearly enough press; all the attention goes to their larger siblings, mighty Jupiter and magnificent Saturn.
Highly Eccentric Sub-Neptune Found Orbiting Nearby Red Dwarf0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 12, 2022
Using data from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and several ground-based facilities, astronomers have discovered a long-period sub-Neptune exoplanet orbiting TOI-2257. Intriguingly, the planet’s orbit is highly elliptical, suggestive of a possible perturbing outer gas-giant planet in the TOI-2257 system.
A big failed Russian rocket just came crashing back to Earth out of control0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 11, 2022
The test of a new upper-stage booster didn’t go as planned.
We May Finally Know The Cause of ‘The Cow’, a Freakishly Exciting Space Explosion0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 11, 2022
The cause of a mysterious cosmic kaboom – so bright it led to the classification of a new type of space explosion – may have now been revealed.
The rules of space haven’t been updated in 50 years, and the UN says it’s time0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 11, 2022
On November 15, 2021, Russia destroyed one of its own old satellites using a missile launched from the surface of Earth, creating a massive debris cloud that threatens many space assets, including astronauts onboard the International Space Station.
Pittsburgh New Year’s Day meteor explosion equivalent to 27 tonnes of TNT, says Nasa0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 7, 2022
If not for clouds, the half-tonne fireball would have been easily visible in the day, maybe about 100 times the brightness of a full moon
Strange star behaviour reveals a black hole lurking just outside our galaxy0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 7, 2022
Astronomers used the odd behaviour of a star to locate a black hole ‘hiding’ in the Large Magellanic Cloud.
Lucy in the sky: Spacecraft will visit record 8 asteroids0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 17, 2021
Advances in tech and design are behind this flurry of asteroid missions, as well as the growing interest in asteroids and the danger they pose to Earth.
No, the Cube-Shaped Object on the Far Side of the Moon Isn’t Aliens0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 8, 2021
But it could have been formed in mysterious circumstances.
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