December 2021

Wednesday 5 JanuaryThe Moon passes 4 ° south of Jupiter at 7 p.m. EST tonight. Now in the constellation Aquarius, our satellite is about 14% illuminated and features of its eastern limb (west of the sky) are visible. The most…

12/31/2021 Act. At 10:16 am CET Joan Lluís Ferrer A multidisciplinary scientific team from the Spanish Institute of Oceanography (IEO), the University of the…

Rest well, old friendPhoto: NASA / Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory / Southwestern Research InstituteYou know the old slogan: In space, nobody can hear you scream. Unfortunately, being stuck on our rapidly heating up!-->!-->…

Some of the most exciting space missions are ready to go in 2022.This year, expect the first images and…

The Hubble Telescope may be considered obsolete after the successful launch of the James Webb Telescope, but the aging telescope still captures beautiful images of our universe.In 2021, Hubble gave us plenty of insights into the inner…

Scientific discoveries on Mars can be so shallow - hunting for water caches, terrestrial sampling, and other technical wonders tend to take place on the surface of the Red Planet (or a little above). But as NASA's Perseverance rover roams…

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The James Webb Space Telescope - humanity's biggest bet to date in its quest to probe the Universe - flew into space on December 25, marking the culmination of decades of work by the world's astronomers whole. But for…

World Environment Day (June 5, 2021) marked the official start of the United Nations Decade for Ecosystem Restoration, a global initiative to revive the natural world. Tim Christophersen, United Nations Decade Coordinator at the United…

Earth and Mars were formed from material largely derived from the inner solar system; only a few percent of the building blocks of these two planets originate from beyond Jupiter's orbit. A group of researchers led by the University of…

The spacecraft will begin its final approach to the asteroid at the end of 2025. As the spacecraft approaches its target, the mission team will turn on its cameras and the visual of the asteroid Psyche will transform. of the blurry spot…

In early 2021, we were eagerly awaiting the arrival of the Perseverance rover at Jezero crater on Mars. The first part of the year was devoted to the Red Planet - with a successful landing of a rover and the very first helicopter flight…

Humans have long been fascinated by the sky. Our first stories are about heroes buried among the stars. Ancient structures such as Stonehenge were built to mark the apparent movements of the sun. Galileo in 1609 pointed a first…

Asteroid Ryugu has some of the darkest and oldest material in our solar system, according to analysis of the cosmic object.Samples of the asteroid were extracted in 2019 by the Japanese probe Hayabusa 2, traveling more than 300 million…

Scientists have finally studied their first complete samples sent back from an asteroid into space, and they confirm what you expected, while providing new information. ScienceAlert reports researchers have published of them papers…

If NASA James Webb Space Telescope successfully launched this week, it will join dozens of active and inactive spacecraft operating beyond Earth's orbit. Spaceship Orbiting The Sun Lucy!-->!-->!-->!-->…

If you've looked up at the sky at the right time and in the right direction over the past 10 days, you may have caught a glimpse of Comet Leonard, which is named after the University researcher. from Arizona, Gregory Leonard.Leonard first…

It was the first material to be returned to Earth from a carbon-rich asteroid. These asteroids can reveal how our cosmic corner of the universe formed. The organic and hydrated minerals locked in these asteroids could also shed light on…

Sunday 26 DecemberMars passes 5 ° due north of Antares at 1:00 p.m. EST. Although they are obscured by daylight by this time, you can catch them early this morning, about 10 ° above the horizon 30 minutes before…

There is something truly captivating about looking at the night sky and reflecting on the nature of the stars above us. While it may sound too lyrical or philosophical, humanity has been studying the stars for millennia now, and questions…

(Inside Science) - Mars is known for its dust storms, which can cause problems with lander equipment and block the sun that powers solar panels. These violent storms, which can last for weeks, have already caused property damage and even…

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has seen a giant leap in the space race by planning a new mission in the asteroid belt of our solar system. It comes just a year after the United Arab Emirates space agency successfully launched its…

by Brian KoberleinNewswise - Astronomers have developed powerful telescopes to explore the Universe. These observation tools have allowed us to understand the solar system and our place in the cosmos. But telescopes have their limits,…

University of California researchers studying meteorites have revealed violent new pieces of the puzzle from the early days of our solar system. A new article on meteorites says scientists…

WASHINGTON, Dec.14 (Reuters) - It was completed years late at a much higher cost than expected, but NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, scheduled to launch next week, could usher in a new era in the field of astronomy by collecting…

The exoplanet GJ 367b orbits its star in an extremely short time. Only 8 hours, then a year has passed on this planet. We don't know anything like it about our solar system: Mercury is the fastest planet here with an orbital period of…

Raised height: Farthing Downs holds many historical secrets NOTES ON NATURE: The City of London rangers tending to Farthing Downs, Coulsdon Common and other treasured green spaces are as hard at work during the dark midwinter months…

Paul Delaney, longtime York University professor of astronomy, is retiring from full-time teaching but says he has no plans to retire from astronomy. Delaney, a frequent contributor to CTV News, has been…

Over the weekend, an asteroid larger than the Eiffel Tower will not have an impact on Earth. I am sorry to disappoint you. Notice it is not the news you'd see if you took to social media this week or read a number of…

Through Robert Hazen, Ph.D., George Mason University We live in an absolute golden age of astronomy, a golden age of planetary exploration. Never before in history has the pace of discovery been so rapid. The red planet, Mars, is by…

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The Fiske Planetarium at the University of Colorado at Boulder, in conjunction with the Sommers-Bausch Observatory, has installed an updated version of the Colorado-scale Model Solar System with an associated mobile phone app that allows…

Planet b Centauri b shouldn't even exist - but the image above is confirmation that it does exist. The image, taken by the Very Large Telescope of the European Southern Observatory in Chile, shows the binary star system b Centauri on the…

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way of life, How was the asteroid belt formed? I've heard that there would have been another planet there, but there doesn't seem to be enough material for a planet. - Jessie (7 years old) That's a great question, Jessie. To answer it,…

How was the asteroid belt formed? I heard there would have been another planet there, but there doesn't seem to be enough material for a planet ...–Jessie (7 years old) That's…

Seth Jacobson is Assistant Professor at Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences and in the Department of Physics and Astronomy in the College of Natural Sciences. As a planetologist, Jacobson studies the…

The solar system has been described as a round shaped space body. But, this depicted appearance might have been wrong from the start, as a new computer simulation model shows it to be a crescent…

We do not say what the universe could throw at us. Just when some of us think we know all about it, a new discovery throws all that smugness out of the park. Scientists have now spotted one of the smallest planets ever…

Additionally, Starship has a key advantage over other super heavy rockets in development, such as NASA's very delayed space launch system and Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket. The top half of the rocket is designed to be refueled in Earth…

December 6, 2021 Editor's Note: This story is one in a series of profiles of notable fall 2021 graduates.McCall Langford was introduced to the design principles of biomimicry at a young age. She…

Through Robert Hazen, Ph.D., George Mason University Our solar system is littered with planets, moons, comets, asteroids and more. It includes all objects gravitationally related to the Sun. Space scientists are collecting…

QuestionHow was the asteroid belt formed? I've heard that there would have been another planet there, but there doesn't seem to be enough material for a planet.ReplyThat's a great question, Jessie. To answer it, we need to board a time…

An illustration of a red dwarf star orbiting an exoplanet. Credit: NASA/ESA/G. Bacon (STScI) An international team of researchers has discovered a new planet, GJ 367 b, whose surface temperature can reach 1,500 degrees centigrade – hot…

Sunday 5 DecemberIt's the turn of comet C / 2021 A1 (Leonard) to shine! Soaring at 2 a.m. local time, your best bet to catch this comet until next week is a few hours before sunrise, as it rises higher in the sky southeast of the…

The sky during the eclipse Both the Sun and the Moon will be in the southern part of the constellation Ophiuchus the Serpent-Carrier. The Sun is in front of its stars from November 29 to December 17. At the time of the greatest eclipse,…

This illustration shows a recently discovered exoplanet called GJ 367b, located about 31 light years from Earth and orbiting its star in just about 8 hours, with a density greater than that of our planet and an internal structure similar…

Overview One of the main asteroid belt's most intriguing targets, Psyche is a giant metal-rich asteroid about three times farther from the Sun than Earth. Its average diameter is about 140 miles (226 kilometers) - about…

Jupiter begins in December in the eastern part of Capricorn, about 16.5 ° east of Saturn. It shines at magnitude -2.3, but rapidly decreases to magnitude 0.1, then changes to Aquarius on December 14. The waxing Moon is below…

Not only is comet Bernardinelli-Bernstein the largest of its kind known, but it's also one of the most active and distant comets, likely spewing plumes of gas farther from the Sun than expected. The object, code name C / 2014 UN271…