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Dec 6, 2020
âIt was a beautiful fireballâ: Japan space capsule carrying astroid samples lands in Australia
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: materials, space
Itâs only the second time pristine astroid material has been brought back to Earth.
A Japanese space capsule carrying asteroid samples landed in a remote area of Australia as planned Saturday, Japanâs space agency, JAXA, said.
Why it matters via Axiosâ Miriam Kramer: Itâs only the second time pristine asteroid material has been brought back to Earth. Sample return missions like this one are incredibly valuable to scientists.
Dec 5, 2020
JAXAâs Hayabusa2 asteroid sample return capsule lands in Australia
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: materials, space
Hayabusa2âs sample return capsule has landed in Woomera, Australia, today, 5 December â or 6 December local time at Woomera. The exact landing location is now being determined, but a tweet from the missionâs official account says an estimated location of landing has been identified and teams are en route to recover it.
The craft returned not just asteroid surface material, but subsurface material (at first) as well, and will be met by Japanese scientists after completing its six-year mission to the asteroid 162173 Ryugu.
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Dec 5, 2020
The Hayabusa 2 spacecraft is about to deliver asteroid rocks to Earth
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: space
The Japanese Hayabusa 2 spacecraft will drop off samples of dust and rocks from the asteroid Ryugu on 6 December before heading off to visit another asteroid.
Dec 5, 2020
Pluto probe finds mysterious night light in the universe
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: space
NASAâs New Horizons spacecraft has detected light with no obvious source coming from beyond our galaxy.
Dec 5, 2020
Spacecraft that flew outside the solar system find âunique physicsâ
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: physics, space
The Voyager probes have detected an entirely new kind of electron burst outside the solar system.
It is the first time this âunique physicsâ have been detected by a spacecraft, and could allow for new breakthroughs in our understanding of the âinterstellar mediumâ, or the space between the stars.
The two Voyager spacecraft were launched by NASA more than 40 years ago, with the aim of flying to the far reaches of our solar system. They have now gone even further than that, reaching interstellar space, and exploring the gaps between the stars, giving us the first glimpses of what it might be like in that mysterious zone.
Dec 5, 2020
Scientists Have Pinpointed the Number That Explains the Universe
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: space
With new research, scientists have the most accurate measurement ever of one of the fundamental constants of the universe.
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Dec 5, 2020
Astronomers Capture Deepest Views Ever of Magellanic Clouds
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: space
New images, taken with the 520-megapixel Dark Energy Camera (DECam) on the VĂctor M. Blanco 4-m Telescope at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, represent a portion of the second data release from the Survey of the MAgellanic Stellar History (SMASH), the deepest, most extensive survey of the Magellanic Clouds (high-resolution images: the Large Magellanic Cloud and the Small Magellanic Cloud).
Dec 4, 2020
Researchers created a âGoogle Mapâ of the universe, with a million newly discovered galaxies
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: space
Astronomers have mapped about a million previously undiscovered galaxies beyond the Milky Way, in the most detailed survey of the southern sky ever carried out using radio waves.
The Rapid ASKAP Continuum Survey (or RACS) has placed the CSIROâs Australian SKA Pathfinder radio telescope (ASKAP) firmly on the international astronomy map.
While past surveys have taken years to complete, ASKAPâs RACS survey was conducted in less than two weeks â smashing previous records for speed. Data gathered have produced images five times more sensitive and twice as detailed as previous ones.
Dec 4, 2020
Japan spacecraft approaches Earth to drop asteroid samples
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: space
TOKYO (AP) â Japanese space agency officials said Friday the Hayabusa2 spacecraft is on its intended trajectory as it approaches Earth to deliver a capsule containing samples from a distant asteroid that could provide clues to the origin of the solar system and life on Earth.
The spacecraft left the asteroid Ryugu, about 300 million kilometers (180 million miles) away, a year ago. The capsule is to be released 220,000 kilometers (136,700 miles) away in space and land in a remote, sparsely populated area of Woomera, Australia, on Sunday.
Hayabusa2 is flying smoothly according to plan, Yuichi Tsuda, project manager at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, said at a briefing ahead of the critical separation of the capsule from the spacecraft on Saturday.