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Since the 1990s, scientists have cataloged thousands of planets outside our solar system, called exoplanets. Some of them are massive and gaseous, while others are tiny and rocky like our homeworld. But recent analysis…

Artist's impression of the asteroid belt. Credit: NASA. Early astromaterials (i.e., early meteorites, interplanetary dust particles, and micrometeorites) preserve the only surviving samples of the fundamental building blocks of our…

Since landing on Mars in February 2021, the Perseverance rover has been exploring Jezero Crater, a 50 kilometer wide impact feature. The purpose of the mission is to search for evidence that Mars once had or may still…

"Breathtaking" images of a stellar nursery in the Orion Nebula taken by the James Webb Space Telescope…

Diamonds may be the hardest natural substance on Earth, but space diamonds might be harder.In a new study by a team of Australian scientists published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciencesresearchers not only suggest…

Three new tumblers arrived at Walt Disney World Resort this week. One is part of the 50th Anniversary Vault Collection, while the other two are inspired by Enchanted Tiki Room and Pizza Planet. Tiki Room Enchanted Tumbler – $22.99 This…

Very cool exoplanet news, literally: Two super-Earth planets have been found around a red dwarf star, and one of them is the right distance from its star to - maybe - be reasonably temperate. The star is called LP…

Sunday September 11 The Moon passes 1.8° south of Jupiter at 11:00 a.m. EDT. This evening, our satellite has moved towards Cetus and is 6.5° east of the gas giant two hours after sunset. As the bright Moon rises in the east, let's turn…

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The transit of our solar system through the spiral arms of the Milky Way. Major geologic events are displayed on the overlay timeline to highlight the increased frequency of events associated with passing through dense star!-->…

The solar system consists of a star called 'Sun' with 'nine planets' spinning and rotating around it. The planets in our solar system are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. At the advanced level,…

From smart homes and consumer devices to connected workplaces and complex industrial monitoring, the Internet of Things (IoT) has endless potential. By nature, the IoT connects the physical world to the digital world, providing…

The European Space Agency's Mars Express spacecraft has captured impressive images of Holden Basin on Mars, which is part of a key area for the ongoing search for life on the Red Planet. The images and further investigation of the area…

Will the Earth de-orbit from the solar system? This is one of the things that can end the life of the planet. (Photo: NASA Photo/Newsmakers)A view of Earth appears above the lunar horizon as the…

The James Webb Space Telescope has detected carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of a distant planet surrounding a Sun-like star for the first time.Why is it important: The JWST is designed to study and help scientists understand the…

At a moment ofin the history of the earth, the elemental forces lifted the great continental masses in the direction of the equator. This change was so colossal that it was as if Boston was being dragged to zero latitude – a distance of…

monday september 5Comet C/2017 K2 (PanSTARRS) is still the brightest comet in the sky, currently observed around magnitude 9 - slightly fainter than expected, although of course comets are notoriously UNpredictable. Still, you can catch it…

But why are we going back to the Moon anyway? We went there, didn't we? Our understanding of the Moon today is very different from that of the era of Apollo. Once thought to be dry, scientists have found that the Moon has extensive…

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a spectacular image of a distant exoplanet, ushering in a new era of discoveries about distant worlds. Photography: NASA/ESA/CSA, A Carter (UCSC), ERS 1386 team and A. Pagan (STScI)!-->>-->!-->>…

This migration has left fingerprints in all the atmospheres of the planets, as both worlds have recovered planetesimals charged with heavy elements - small solid bodies present in the protoplanetary disks around young stars - which are only…

The planet with the most moons revolves around it. Of course, the greatest number of moons characterizes the planet. There is a famous planet in the solar system itself which has a large number of moons. The Moon is one of the natural…

The colors in these images do not match what the human eye would see when observing Jupiter. After all, our vision does not pick up infrared radiation. But the image processors in these stunning shots - citizen scientist Judy Schmidt and…

We talk a lot about Mars being dry, but that doesn't mean it has no water: it means there's no liquid water to be found. Instead, it's in the form of ice cream. There are millions of cubic kilometers of frozen water…

Using NASA's Webb Telescope, scientists have discovered evidence of carbon dioxide on a planet outside Earth's solar system for the first time. Illustration: NASA, ESA, CSA, Joseph Olmsted (STScI) Thanks to Nasa's James!-->!-->>-->!-->>…

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NASA has detected carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of a distant planet called WASP-39b using the powerful imaging capabilities offered by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).The space agency describes(Opens in a new window) the discovery…

New Delhi: Scientists have now confirmed the presence of dust grains in asteroid Ryugu that are older than our own solar system. The priceless dust samples were collected by the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa-2 which orbited the near-Earth…

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured a stunningly detailed rainbow of near-infrared starlight filtered through the atmosphere of a hot gas giant 700 light-years away. The transmission spectrum of exoplanet WASP-39b,…

This illustration shows what exoplanet WASP-39b might look like, based on current understanding of ... the planet. This illustration is based on indirect transit observations from Webb as well as other space and…

A University of Central Florida researcher is part of an international team that used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to capture definitive evidence of carbon dioxide in a planet's atmosphere gas giant orbiting a sun-like star 700…

Astronomers may have detected a previously unknown "mini-moon" in the solar system: a rocky object orbiting a small asteroid near Jupiter.If the rocky satellite, which is just a little wider than the width of Manhattan, turns out to be a…

Astronomers have discovered a distant planet that they believe may be completely covered in water, making it a prime target for future studies by the James Webb Space Telescope.The planet is called TOI-1452 b and it is located about 100…

New research by Curtin has found evidence that Earth's early continents were hit by comets as our solar system moved in and out of the Milky Way's spiral arms, upending traditional thinking about how our planet formed. The new research,…

It's easy to feel like if you want to look at the night sky you have to live in the desert and either have a telescope covered in so many wires and wires that it looks like someone threw a bowl of spaghetti on it, or a camera powerful…

You'd think black holes would be weird enough for some astronomers. They form in the core of exploding stars. They defy Newtonian logic and need relativity to properly account for their gravity. They distort space and…

This composite infrared image of Jupiter was created using data from the James Webb Space Telescope's NIRCam instrument. The Great Red Spot is located at the bottom right. Credit: NASA, ESA, ASC, Jupiter ERS team; image processing by…

We know that the solar system formed from a collapsing cloud of cold gas and dust, called the protosolar molecular cloud, which was probably part of a much larger nebula. This has been a working assumption for a long time, but over the…

Distance from Earth: 41 light years Mass: 0.69 Land Ray: 0.92 times the Earth Year: 6.1 days A member of one of the most famous star systems, TRAPPIST-1 e is one of seven exoplanets around Trappist-1.…

Samples collected by the asteroid Ryugu have revealed that they are old even before the solar system was created. Know all the details here.…

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The asteroid Ryugu is located about 300 million kilometers from Earth. It completes an orbit around the Sun every 16 months, and many believe an asteroid like this helped fuel the origin of water on Earth. Now, an international team…

We considered other possible processes that could have formed such a crater, such as the collapse of an underwater volcano or a pillar (or diapir) of salt under the seafloor. An explosive release of gas below the surface could also be a…

28Si hot spots. (f) Presolar oxide rich in 17O found in Ryugu Matrix A0058-2. (g)–(h) This O-anomalous presolar grain was found in the least altered zone shown in (b). The entry in (g)…

The summer of 2022 has been busy for us here at NASA. Although we didn't go to the beach, one of our space probes got some serious sunbathing. We've made great progress on a new spacecraft that will fly over an ocean we think is deep…

Astronomy is one of the oldest…

Nation World News , Mom and the little angel are lovers of the solar system and space? If so, you already know the planet Mercury, right? Mercury is one of the most beautiful planets in…

Despite the illustrious astronomical past of the Arab world, the concentration of knowledge of capitalism and colonialism has left the region languishing. Barring a few spurts of innovation, there is still a long way to go to regain its…

Ancient dust grains older than the solar system itself were found in samples from the asteroid Ryugu brought to Earth by the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa2 nearly two years ago. The presence of this pre-solar material in Ryugu is not a…

Credit: public domain CC0 This great solar system has many secrets to reveal. Just…

bobo.id There are fascinating high mountains in almost every corner of the world, one of which is Mount Everest. Mount Everest is the second highest mountain in the world, covered in snow, my friends. But do you know the guys? Turns out…

Space and astronomy agencies have improved their instruments to explore the depths of the universe. An image of a planet like Pluto, taken through the lens of a telescope NASA and ESAIn 1996, the landscape is very different from those we…

Modern astronomy is a bit in turmoil. Astronomers are understanding how stars form, burn and die, and they are improving their understanding of how planets fit together into planetary systems like ours. But astronomers have a problem:…

We know dark matter exists - a mysterious substance that is five times more prevalent in the Universe by mass than what we consider "normal" matter, the stuff you and I and everything we see are made of. . We see its…

One of the best times to explore southeast Utah is at night: the area is famous for stargazing, which is why the Canyon Country Discovery Center in Monticello hosts regular Dark Sky Discovery parties. The next event will take place…

Four Indian researchers were among the seven international students who won the top prizes for their doctoral work at the 31st meeting of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) in Busan, South Korea. The four researchers are specialized…

The distance to M31 To compare my results for the distance to M31 directly to Hubble's, I needed to use Shapley's faulty calibration of the period-luminosity relationship. Curiously, Hubble has adjusted this graph to produce the absolute…

SUKABUMIUPDATE.com All planets in our solar system have satellites, a simple example is the Moon (Chandra) on Earth. There is a beautiful and surreal world within the Moon itself, an inanimate world created by ancient volcanoes and…

Alan Sheidler People's Astronomy Club There has been a lot of hype recently about returning to the moon, exploring nearby asteroids, and colonizing Mars. As an…

Experts at the forefront of efforts to restore the UK's coastal seagrass beds say the remarkable plant's contribution to the most important to-do list in human history should be reassessed. Seagrass - the world's only underwater flowering…

Saturday August 6The waxing Moon is in the clutches of Scorpius in the south tonight, so let's look north instead for darker skies. Bright Vega in Lyra sits high in the north tonight, shining at magnitude 0. This star will one day sit…

The discovery of several exoplanets that seem to shrink seems to solve a "missing link" in planetary evolution. Four mini-Neptunes close to their stars were found fleeing their atmospheres at a rate consistent with eventual total loss.…

Bastar gets an astronomy laboratory, children have the chance to develop their scientific temperament Determined to develop a scientific temperament in children and expose them to space science, the Bastar district administration of…

After the successful launch of NASA's Lucy spacecraft on October 16, 2021, a group of engineers gathered around a long conference table in Titusville, Florida. Lucy was just hours away from her 12-year flight, but an unexpected…

The asteroid Phaethon is the bluest asteroid in the solar system and it has long baffled scientists on Earth. But eventually, the secret is out. Find out…

ACROSS the Northern Hemisphere, a taste of the apocalypse is unfolding in the form of heat waves, out-of-control wildfires, displacement and death. In Europe, the crisis has already claimed around 2,000 lives in…

Jules Giuliano knows it's ironic that gardening - something inherently good for the planet - often uses materials that actually harm the environment. So he set out to change that: in April 2022, Giuliano launched Rosy Soil, a…

Photography: Imagine. Approximate reading time: 1 minute, 47 seconds Source: Victorialand. Global biodiversity has started to decline significantly in recent years due to the destruction of its ecosystems, climate!-->…

But this method only works when the source galaxy is bright enough to illuminate the lens galaxy. And because extremely distant galaxies are extremely faint, astronomers have so far been unable to assess dark matter in galaxies from around…

The solar system is depicted with a collection of mysterious celestial objects. Its extraordinary existence makes the solar system difficult to explain scientifically. Earlier, scientists had discovered ice-spewing volcanoes on Pluto.…

The 2014 sci-fi movie Interstellar foreshadowed our future. The scientifically accurate film, starring researchers from Harvard and MIT, as well as renowned physics professor Kip Thorne, was created to target audiences to portray in an…

SpaceX is working on several upgrades to the company's Starlink satellites to keep them from bothering astronomers. The upgrades attempt to determine how Starlink satellites can reflect sunlight as they orbit Earth. That same light can…

Wednesday August 3The slowly waxing Moon is in Virgo tonight, not far from the magnificent double star Porrima (Gamma Virginias). Thanks to a telescope, this luminous point is divided into two of roughly equal magnitude: 3.65 and 3.56.…

On February 16, 2021 at 5:34 a.m. local time, NASA launched its Lucy mission into space aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V 401 rocket. From Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA. The mission, in development since 2014, is now on its way to…

These are exactly the questions that astronomers Stephen Kane and Zhexing Li of the University of California, Riverside pose in a recent paper now accepted for publication in the Journal of Planetary Science. After all, as the most massive…

Scorpius the Scorpio holds many of the most beautiful deep sky objects in the sky, including the spectacular globular cluster M4. This group of stars stands out for several reasons. First, at 7,200 light-years away, it's the closest…

A theory decried by experts when it was first presented in the 1970s is resurfacing as economists debate whether the world can sustain the current speed of development. Resource and environmental limitations are just two of the main…

August 26, 2022: A planetary parade can be seen stretching across the sky overnight. The slender crescent moon provides a stimulating sight before sunrise. Chart legend – August 26, 2022: Jupiter is in the southwest before sunrise.…

M51, the fabulous Whirlpool Galaxy of Canes Venatici, is the largest (in apparent diameter) and brightest spiral in the night sky. It sports the iconic face of what astronomers call a “grand design spiral galaxy” – a galaxy that displays a…

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