Astronomy & Space

At 6:28 a.m. EDT on August 21, 1972, NASA's Copernicus satellite, the heaviest and most complex space telescope of now is the ideal time, illuminated the sky as it rose into space from Launch Complex 36B at what is currently Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. At first known as Orbiting Astronomical Observatory (OAO) C, it became OAO 3 once in a circle in the style of the time. Yet, it was likewise renamed to honor the 500th commemoration of the introduction of Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543). The Polish stargazer formed a model of the planetary group with the Sun as

The sea floor is broadly less investigated than the outer layer of Mars. Also, when our group of researchers as of late planned the seabed and old silt underneath, we found what resembles a space rock influence pit. Intriguingly, the pit, named "Nadir" after the close by well of lava, Nadir Seamount, is as old as the Chicxulub influence, brought about by an immense space rock toward the end of the Cretaceous time frame, around quite a while back, which cleared out the dinosaurs and numerous different species. The finding, published in Science Advances, brings up the issue of whether

The center of NASA's Europa Clipper rocket has become the overwhelming focus in the Spacecraft Assembly Facility at the organization's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. Standing 10 feet (3 meters) high and 5 feet (1.5 meters) wide, the art's primary body will, for the next two years, be the focal point of consideration in the office's super clean High Bay 1 as designers and experts gather the rocket for its send off to Jupiter's moon Europa in October 2024. Researchers accept that the ice-wrapped moon harbors a huge inner sea that might have conditions reasonable for supporting life. During

It's one of the more odd sights of the advanced Space Age. As of late, we have ended up under the somewhat dim skies of southern Spain. Sufficiently sure, in a couple of moments, we saw a chain of blazing "stars" winking all around us with hardly a pause in between. Starlink trains are now a common sight, both the best and worst thing about modern life.While SpaceX's uber satellite vows to turn into a genuine disruptor in the overall web game, it can likewise add to the weight of light contamination in the night sky. Will there soon come

Astronomers have discovered two cases of "mini-Neptune" planets that are losing their puffy atmospheres and transforming into super-Earths. The planets' atmospheres are being stripped away by radiation from their stars, causing hot gas to escape like steam from a pot of boiling water. "Most astronomers suspected that young, small mini-Neptunes had evaporating atmospheres," says Michael Zhang, the lead author of both studies and a Caltech graduate student. "However, no one had ever caught one in the act until now." The findings are detailed in two papers published in The Astronomical Journal: one based on data from the W. M. Keck

High-energy oxygen and sulfur ions have been discovered in Jupiter's inner radiation belts, as well as a previously unknown ion source. Nearly two decades after NASA's Galileo mission to Jupiter ended, scientists led by the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) in Germany have unearthed a new secret from the mission's massive data sets. The research team was able to prove beyond doubt for the first time that the high-energy ions surrounding the gas giant as part of its inner radiation belt are primarily oxygen and sulfur ions. They are thought to have formed as a result of

A possibly better method for making oxygen for space explorers in space by utilizing attraction has been proposed by a global group of researchers, including a University of Warwick scientist. The conclusion is based on new research on appealing stage division in microgravity published in npj Microgravity by researchers from the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom, the University of Colorado Boulder, and the Freie Universität Berlin in Germany. Keeping space explorers breathing on board the International Space Station and other space vehicles is a muddled and expensive process. As people plan future missions to the Moon or Mars,