by rmil2k | Dec 3, 2023 | News
Alpha Centauri (the yellow star just to the right of center) is the closest bright star to Earth. At 4.35 light-years away, on a scale model where Earth is the size of a bacterium, this star would sit 4.34 miles (nearly 7 km) distant. Credit: Alan Dyer In astronomy,...
by rmil2k | Dec 2, 2023 | News
A team of researchers led by University of Chicago astronomer Rafael Luque analyzed data acquired by both NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and ESA’s CHaracterising ExOPlanet Satellite (Cheops) and found a unique planetary system. Orbiting a star...
by rmil2k | Dec 2, 2023 | News
On 1 December 2023, at 19:19 CET (18:18 GMT), Ireland’s first satellite EIRSAT-1 launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, USA. Built by students at University College Dublin under guidance of ESA’s Education Office, EIRSAT-1 is a 2-unit CubeSat...
by rmil2k | Dec 2, 2023 | News
‘Doctor Who: Wild Blue Yonder’: Key information• Airs at 6:30pm (GMT), 1:30pm (ET) and 10:30am (PT) on Saturday, December 2• UK: Watch for FREE on BBC One and BBC iPlayer• Away from home: Use a VPN such as ExpressVPN to watch your usual service from...
by rmil2k | Dec 1, 2023 | News
An artist’s rendering of the warm exoplanet WASP-80 b whose color may appear bluish to human eyes due to the lack of high-altitude clouds and the presence of atmospheric methane identified by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, similar to the planets Uranus and Neptune...
