BepiColombo’s second Mercury flyby on June 23 takes the probe one step closer to orbiting the closest planet to the Sun.

Using the Victor M. Blanco Telescope, Donatiello captured minute glimpses of the galaxy in Chile, particularly at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory.

At the time, David Martinez-Delgado, another astronomer from Spain’s Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia, was conducting separate research regarding the lingering galaxies around Andromeda.

Upon learning the existence of the fossil galaxy, the scientists propose an argument that this could be a speck of an ancient galaxy. Its stars are said to be a former part of it.

We’re about to have an entirely new perspective on the universe.

The James Webb Space Telescope will release its first high-resolution color images on July 12. One of those images “is the deepest image of our universe that has ever been taken,” said NASA Administrator Bill Nelson during a news conference on Wednesday.

“If you think about that, this is farther than humanity has ever moved before,” Nelson said. “And we’re only beginning to understand what Webb can and will do. It’s going to explore objects in the solar system and atmospheres of exoplanets orbiting other stars, giving us clues as to whether potentially their atmospheres are similar to our own.”

An international team of researchers led by the ETH Zurich and the National Centre of Competence in Research PlanetS has more accurately recreated the early history of several asteroids than ever before. Their findings suggest that the early solar system was more chaotic than previously assumed.

Before the Earth and other planets formed, the young sun was surrounded by cosmic gas and dust. Slowly, rock shards of varying sizes formed from the dust over the millennia. Many of these became building blocks for subsequent planets. Others did not become planets and continue to circle the sun today, such as asteroids in the asteroid belt.

Iron samples from the cores of asteroids that had fallen on Earth as meteorites were analyzed by researchers from ETH Zurich and the National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) PlanetS in conjunction with an international team. In doing so, they revealed a portion of their early past during the formation of planets. Their results were recently published in the journal Nature Astronomy.

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