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Sep 17, 2020
A 13-Micron High “Mountain” on a Neutron Star 4,500 Light-Years Away
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: space
Is it possible to discover an asymmetry of a few thousandths of a millimeter on a neutron star 42 million billion km from Earth?
What’s it like to live in space? To get some insight on playing an astronaut going to Mars, Hilary Swank visited NASA’s Johnson Space Center, and spoke with astronaut Jessica Meir, who lived aboard the International Space Station for over 200 days. Bonus: Mission Control cartwheel.
Sep 16, 2020
‘Venus is a Russian planet,’ Russian space agency director says
Posted by Malak Trabelsi Loeb in categories: biological, space
In a statement, Roscosmos noted that the first missions to explore Venus were carried out by the Soviet Union.
“The enormous gap between the Soviet Union and its competitors in the investigation of Venus contributed to the fact that the United States called Venus a Soviet planet,” Roscosmos said.
The Russians claim to have extensive material that suggests that some objects on the Venusian surface have changed places or could be alive, although these are hypotheses that have yet to be confirmed.
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Sep 16, 2020
Researchers Find Extraterrestrial Amino Acids in Antarctic Meteorite
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: space
A team of astrobiologists from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center and the Carnegie Institution for Science has found a wide diversity of amino acids in Asuka 12236, a carbonaceous chondrite meteorite recovered from the Nansen Ice Field in Antarctica by Belgium and Japan researchers in 2012.
Sep 16, 2020
NASA page lets you see what Hubble telescope captured on your birthday
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: space
The mysterious world of space has still not been deciphered by the gaze of human beings on Earth. As a matter of fact, NASA in its consistent efforts, developed the Hubble telescope in the 1990s to observe eye-catching happenings in the universe and since then for every second, it’s doing that quite persistently.
Recently, the US-based space agency announced that it can showcase which new galaxy it captured, what unusual did it notice about our stars, solar system and planets and what patterns of ionized-gases it observed, on any specific day. So users can use the new tool to check what Hubble captured on your birthday, but for any specific year.
Check out the tool here.
Sep 16, 2020
The Sun enters a new cycle and will reach a peak in 2025
Posted by Malak Trabelsi Loeb in category: space
The Sun has emerged from a solar minimum and a new cycle dubbed Solar Cycle 25 has begun. It will approach maximum solar activity in 5 years time, say NASA and NOAA scientists.
Sep 15, 2020
The Air Force has already built and flown a prototype of its first new fighter jet in two decades
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: military, space
Wow cool.
The Defense Department may not have finished working out all the kinks in the ultra-expensive and perpetually buggy F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, but the Air Force is plowing ahead with plans for a next-generation fighter jet.
Defense News reports that the service has secretly designed, built, and flown a prototype of a future fighter jet under its Next Generation Air Dominance program.
Sep 15, 2020
Colliding Neutron Stars Generate Just Small Amounts of Gold, Creating an Astronomical Mystery
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: chemistry, evolution, space
Colliding neutron stars were touted as the main source of some of the heaviest elements in the Periodic Table. Now, not so much …
Neutron star collisions do not create the quantity of chemical elements previously assumed, a new analysis of galaxy evolution finds.
The research also reveals that current models can’t explain the amount of gold in the cosmos — creating an astronomical mystery.