by rmil2k | Oct 18, 2023 | News
A recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters used data obtained by the James Webb Space Telescope’s (JWST) Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) to identify the presence of quartz nanocrystals in the upper atmosphere of WASP-17 b, an exoplanet whose mass and...
by rmil2k | Oct 18, 2023 | News
Applications 17/10/2023 1431 views 44 likes ESA’s navigation testbed vehicle participated in a campaign organised by Norwegian governmental authorities to assess the impact of jamming and spoofing on satnav systems and test innovative technologies for detection and...
by rmil2k | Oct 18, 2023 | News
An enormous volcanic comet the size of a small city has violently exploded for the second time in four months as it hurtles toward the sun. And just like the previous eruption, the cloud of ice and gas emitted what looked like a gigantic pair of horns.The comet, named...
by rmil2k | Oct 17, 2023 | News
Gas giants like Jupiter could be more common than previously thought. Credit: NASA, ESA, A. Simon (Goddard Space Flight Center) and M.H. Wong (University of California, Berkeley). When planetary scientists look to other stars for planets beyond Earth, they don’t often...
by rmil2k | Oct 17, 2023 | News
When stars are born, they do it inside a molecular cloud. Astronomers long assumed that the “crèche” supplied all the nutrients that protostars needed to form. However, it turns out they get help from outside the nest. A new study by scientists at the Max Planck...
