An energetic eruptive filament on EK Draconis most probably launched a coronal mass ejection with a mass ten times larger than the largest solar coronal mass ejection. Studying such ejections provides insight into stellar angular momentum loss and the habitability of orbiting planets.
The telescope will point its massive eyes on these cosmic objects.
The James Webb Space Telescope will explore transiting exoplanets, Kuiper Belt objects and the Solar System’s strangest phenomena.
Even as commercial spaceflight company Axiom Space prepares to launch the first fully private crew to the International Space Station early next year, its engineers are also developing in-house spacesuits.
Texas-based Axiom teased the spacesuits in a tweet posted on Nov. 23. While the suits fit into Axiom’s own long-term plans of creating private space stations that can host paid research missions, the company also hopes to provide the suits to NASA as the space agency prepares for crewed Artemis program launches to the moon.
It’s the stuff of science fiction but it’s real.
Although it may sound like science fiction, space-based solar power has started making headway with several projects underway. In February, we brought you news of technology firm Redwire acquiring Deployable Space Systems (DSS), a leading supplier of deployable solar arrays capable of enabling space missions with the intention of using them to deploy space-based solar power.
Meanwhile, last August we brought you further news, of Caltech’s Space Solar Power Project (SSPP) that collected solar power in space to be transmitted wirelessly to Earth offering energy unaffected by weather or time of day. The project promised to make solar power that could be continuously available anywhere on earth.
At least 70 free-floating planets were found in a nearby star-forming region.
Astronomers discover 70 free-floating planets, the largest group of rogue planets ever found. The planets may have formed on their own or been ejected by a star.
And kick off a new cosmic economy.
NASA’s probe knows where it’s going, but it has no idea what it’s going to find.
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A Sample Receiving Facility for returned samples from Mars to Earth should be built right now, for more info see.
The Design and Construction of the Sample Receiving Facility must start now.
The credit card-sized devices will allow school pupil to programme code for the astronauts.
The team solved this mystery with the help of a vacuum chamber, many lasers, and one powerful cosmic reaction.
However, the weather in French Guiana isn’t looking good.
Launch is now no earlier than Dec 25 at 7:20 a.m. EST (12:20 UTC). We’ll monitor things & keep you posted. go.nasa.gov/32kNpS9
