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The memory of a million years of the moon This terrestrial limitation raises a question: Is solar activity during the Holocene special? To answer this, scientists must look to a completely different planetary body: the Moon. "Lunar rock…

An MIT study suggests that a mysterious gap existed in the solar system's protoplanetary disk around 4.567 billion years ago, and likely shaped the makeup of the solar system's planets. This image shows an artist's interpretation of a…

Researchers have detected phosphine in the Venusian atmosphere…

If someone asks you how many moons Saturn has, the correct answer is "a lot". A slightly more correct answer would be "at least 82". The best answer would probably be now: "150, plus / minus 30, if you're talking more…

The Sun on October 24, showing sunspot AR2887 near the southeastern limb of the Sun. Image: SDO / HMI. A new major sunspot has just turned in the area of ​​the southeast limb of the Sun's photosphere.…

22.10.2021 Francesca Bechtold Even though astronomers can no longer look at them on their own, they are the most important tool for exploring the universe. visit meteorology It is something special for many…

Go back the cosmic clock a few billion years ago and our solar system was very different from what it is today. About 4.5 billion years ago, the young Sun shone like it does now, albeit a little smaller. Instead of being surrounded by…

A new report of the Planet Protection Committee of the National Academies, co-chaired by Amanda Hendrix of the Planetary Science Institute and science policy consultant Joseph Alexander, recommends that the rules…

saturday 23 octoberCepheus the King is a house-shaped star pattern that surrounds Polaris as one of many circumpolar constellations. This means that it is generally high and easy to observe from many places in the northern hemisphere.…

One of the world's leading producers of online word games has joined a global effort to help protect the world's coral reefs, which a new report says are disappearing at an alarming rate. from Sweden MAG Interactive unveiled six…

NASA this week shared sounds of Mars that the Perseverance rover has managed to capture from the surface of the Red Planet, where it has been exploring and working on various science missions since February. This way, it is possible to…

Illustration of the formation of planets around a Sun-like star, with the building blocks of the planets - rocks and iron molecules - in the foreground. Credit: © Tania Cunha (Planetário do Porto – Centro Ciência Viva & Instituto de…

The 1I / Ê»Oumuamua (or simply Oumuamua, if you prefer) is an object from outside the solar system that was identified in 1024 and, almost two years later, it was the turn of comet 2I / Borisov to be discovered wandering…

KUALA LUMPUR: In accordance with the fifth axis of the National Science, Technology and Innovation Policy (DSTIN) 2021-2030, the organization of the “Big Bang Astronomy 2021” program will stimulate the…

Astronomers have for the first time detected something believed to be common in young, developing solar systems. A team led by MIT researchers has discovered evidence of a massive planetary…

Paul M. Sutter is an astrophysicist at SUN Stony Brook and the Flatiron Institute, host of "Ask an astronaut" and "Space radio, "and author of"How to die in space. ”Sutter contributed this article to The expert…

The planets of the solar system are varied in their appearance. Mercury is slate gray while Venus is pearly white, Earth a vibrant blue and Mars a dark red. Even the gas giants are different, Neptune and Uranus opaque blue, while Jupiter…

With renewed interest in asteroids and objects coming from deep space and the risks of a potential collision with Earth, astronomers have arrived for the first time on a planet that could have lost its atmosphere due to 'a collision with a…

The James Webb Space Telescope is seen inside the S5C payload processing facility on October 15 at the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana. Credit: NASA / Chris Gunn Engineers removed the James Webb Space Telescope from its…

About 4.567 billion years ago, our solar system housed a gap in the protoplanetary disk, near where the main asteroid belt is today, and likely shaped the makeup of the planets, according to one study conducted by scientists at MIT.…

The sun and the objects that orbit it make up the solar system. Among these objects, the planets are well known and have been the subject of research for a very long time. Scientific research has given rise to many theories and…

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The artist's concept shows a white dwarf with a gas giant planet and orbiting debris. It's a glimpse into the future of the solar system. Picture via WM Keck Observatory/Adam Makarenko. Scientists now have proof that some of the planets…

Asteroids can really be anything. Most of them are space rocks, but those rocks could be anything from ancient pieces of planetary crust to protoplanets that never did. Psyche even stands out among some of the strangest…

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Home to some of the world's most innovative green spaces, trendiest bars, stunning museums, and next-level hawking cuisine, today's Singapore is anything but boring. A futuristic skyline looms above a famous, clean and increasingly greener…

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Mercury is the smallest planet in the solar system. It's a rock and metal ball just under 5,000 kilometers in diameter (about 40% larger than our Moon), and the planet closest to the Sun. This means it's hot, of course, with a…

In a new revelation, astronomers have now claimed that our solar system was divided into inner and outer regions long before it was formed 4.5 billion years ago. A Daily Mail report suggested the study was conducted by researchers…

South West Research InstituteArtist illustration of the Lucy concept.On Saturday, NASA launched its Lucy mission to study Jupiter's Trojans - clusters of asteroids that precede and follow the gas giant orbiting the Sun.A sensor…

New York, October 17 At the start of the solar system, a "protoplanetary disk" of dust and gas circled around the sun and eventually merged into the planets we know today, according to a…

Far on the border of the outer solar system between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter is the asteroid belt, where hundreds of thousands of small objects orbit the sun. Most of these objects are small rocky asteroids, but some are known…

In a new attempt to find the origin of our solar system, the US space agency on Saturday launched the Lucy mission, the agency's first to the Trojan asteroids of Jupiter.Launched atop the United Launch Alliance Atlas…

An MIT study suggests that a mysterious gap existed in the solar system's protoplanetary disk around 4.567 billion years ago, and likely shaped the makeup of the solar system's planets. This image shows an artist's interpretation of a…

saturday 16 octoberVenus passes 1.5 ° north of the red giant Antares in Scorpius this morning at 10 a.m. EDT. Like Jupiter and the Moon yesterday, however, the two are not visible at this time, so go out after sunset to spot…

How will the solar system die? This is an extremely important question that researchers have speculated a lot about, using our knowledge of physics to create complex theoretical models. We know that the Sun will eventually become a…

Nasa Tomorrow, October 16, NASA will launch the Lucy mission into space - it will set sail for the Trojan asteroids, with the aim of discovering the first stories of our solar system. Thought to hold the unused remnants of the…

Breadcrumb Links Local News Peter G. Brown, professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Western Ontario, claims the meteorite made its way to Earth on October 3, after leaving its orbit in the asteroid belt…

Make a 3D map Scientists have been studying 2D projections of Taurus and Perseus in the sky for a century. But how do they make the jump to 3D? Dust makes up only a small percentage of the mass of a star-forming cloud. However, it turns…

You are made of star stuff. Carl Sagan said this in his series Cosmos, and it is literally true. We know the early universe contained only hydrogen and helium (and a hint of lithium), and all of the heavier elements - carbon,…

The Lucy spacecraft, shown here in an artist's impression, will fly past six Trojan asteroids near Jupiter.Credit: NASA A NASA spacecraft is about to begin its journey to a realm in the outer…

SASKATOON - The skies put on a dazzling spectacle on Monday night with the Northern Lights illuminating most of central and northern Saskatchewan. Amateur astronomer Ron Waldron said conditions were perfect for the…

Astronomers have created highly detailed images of 42 of the largest objects in the solar system's asteroid belt, including Ceres which is twice the diameter of the Grand Canyon.The team used the European Southern Observatory (ESO) Very…

Artist's impression of the New Horizons spacecraft encountering a Kuiper Belt object. Credit: Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwestern Research Institute (JHUAPL/SwRI) In the near future, astronomers will benefit…

If there's one thing our solar system doesn't lack, it's rocks.Small rocks, big rocks, dry rocks, icy rocks. Rocks that look like other rocks. It's the rock system, really - we live here too. For all their prevalence, however, these…

By Satyen Mohapatra About a week ago, the BepiColombo spacecraft took a closer look at Mercury, the least explored planet in our solar system. Black and white photos of the mottled surface of Mercury are sent back to Earth. It was a…

Perseverance landed more than a mile (approximately 2 kilometers) from the cliffs at the front of the delta. We are both part of the team in charge of Mastcam-Z instrument, a set of cameras with zoom lenses that would allow us to see a…

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There are topics that elicit strong opinions from people. East Die hard a Christmas movie? (Yes.) Is there a place for pineapple on pizza? (Also yes.) Is Pluto a planet? I say it is. But this is not a universally…

According to data from the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), more than 500 recorded species have been permanently abandoned over the past decade, causing a massive decline in global biodiversity.Mammals and…

saturday 9 octoberMercury reaches a conjunction below 12:00 p.m. EDT. This essentially places it directly between the Sun and the Earth, making the tiny planet invisible. But don't worry, she'll escape our star's glare only to reappear…

Steven Hobbs/Stocktrek ImagesGetty Images A smaller planet like Earth or Mars could have been pushed to the edge of our solar system (or into deep space), according to a new paper.Scientists think…

(Inside Science) - Centaurs are among the strangest objects in the solar system. The first, nicknamed Chiron, was spotted orbiting more than a billion kilometers from the Sun in 1977 and was originally considered an asteroid. But a few…

Paul M. Sutter is an astrophysicist at SUN Stony Brook and the Flatiron Institute, host of "Ask an astronaut" and "Space radio, "and author of"How to die in space. " Sutter contributed this article to The expert voices of Space.com:…

(MENAFN- Jordan Times) DUBAI - The United Arab Emirates will launch a spacecraft to explore a major asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, officials said on Tuesday, after a United Arab Emirates…

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Artist's representation of an asteroid belt. (Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech) The United Arab Emirates Space Agency (UAE) is embarking on a new space mission in collaboration with CU Boulder's Atmospheric and Space Physics Laboratory…

Using data from NASA's Asteroid Terrestrial-Impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) survey, astronomers have detected a comet in the main asteroid belt, an unusual location for comets. Named asteroid (248370) 2005 QN137, the body of the solar…

Our solar system will host another comet as scientists have identified another massive space rock rushing toward the sun. Researchers studying the comet have estimated its potential arrival in 2031, or in ten years. Discovered in…

Over the past month, amateur visual and photographic astronomy has been difficult. During the day, you may have noticed that, even on the clearest days, the sky was often not the blue you would expect, but blue mixed with brown -…

The United Arab Emirates Space Agency (UAE) will send a probe into the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, with the goal of eventually landing on an asteroid in the early 2030s, in a mission that is sure to be a blow. major thumb…

The Queqiao satellite orbits the L2 Lagrange point located behind the Earth and the Moon to relay communications from Chinese lunar landers to Earth. How is it able to orbit around this point if the gravitational forces are balanced…

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The weekend (October 1), European and Japanese space agency BepiColombo's joint spacecraft overtook Mercury for the first time, just skimming 199 kilometers above the surface of the planet! It's a close shave, but it was on…

The biggest comet ever detected, Bernardinelli-Bernstein, is heading towards our solar system.The comet is located 29 astronomical units (AU) - 29 times the distance between Earth and the Sun - and is therefore expected to arrive in about…

Tools of the tradeTo help understand the origins of the asteroid, the mission scientific inquiry will rely on a magnetometer, a gamma and neutron spectrometer and a multispectral imager. Scientists know that the asteroid does not generate…

For more than 4 billion years, life on Earth has survived and thrived.This aerial view of Grand Prismatic Spring in Yellowstone National Park is one of the most iconic land-based hydrothermal features in the world. The colors are due to…

A massive comet - so large that scientists had previously mistaken it for a dwarf planet - is hurtling through space toward our solar system and is expected to arrive in about 10 years, according to new research.…

In a distant star system - just 1,300 light-years from Earth - UNLV researchers and colleagues have identified the first known planet orbiting three stars. Unlike our solar system, which consists of a lone star, half of all star systems,…

SaturnThe movement of against the background stars stops as its retrograde path ends on October 10 and resumes its movement east. The movement of the planet is barely perceptible to the naked eye. Saturn shines at magnitude 0.4 in early…

Tuesday, October 5The moons of Jupiter are playing hide and seek tonight. Shortly after sunset, point your telescope at the brilliant gas giant, which now lies nearly 2 ° northwest of magnitude 2.9 Deneb Algedi in Capricorn.…

In a new video posted to its official YouTube channel, NASA explained how important Trojan asteroids are to understanding the formation of our solar system. The new video was released as part of the "We asked a NASA scientist"series that…

Barely three weeks after taking office, the University of Hawaii's newest director of astronomy, Doug Simons, is juggling a multitude of issues. Two telescopes atop Mauna Kea are slated to be demolished. The university is…

Of course, that's not the end of the story.In an email, Dr. Loeb complained, among other things, that if Oumuamua was composed of nitrogen, it should also contain carbon (which was not detected by the Spitzer Space Telescope), because the…

On Saturday, women and their allies will march through cities across the country, including the Tampa Bay area. The Women's Marches will draw attention to women's rights, including the right to access safe and legal abortions. WMNF…

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The Lucy mission has passed all of its pre-launch tests and is expected to leave the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station around 5:30 a.m.ET on October 16. The Trojan asteroids, which borrow their name from Greek mythology, orbit the sun in…

No Pluto, you're still off the list Our solar system is still full of surprises and in a recent article published in the Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, it seems that we have returned to the number of 9 planets, but this…

The four giant planets in the solar system have rings. Those of Saturn are the most obvious, of course, but Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune have them too. But they are not alone. Two minor planets also have rings made up of…