by rmil2k | Oct 5, 2023 | News
Science & Exploration 05/10/2023 4217 views 36 likes In brief Euclid has found its ‘lost’ guide stars as a software patch has solved its navigation woes and the next six years of observation schedules have been redesigned to avoid stray sunlight: it’s the end of...
by rmil2k | Oct 5, 2023 | News
Nearly 1,000 light-years from where you’re sitting lies a spinning, highly magnetized neutron star that is so dense, a tablespoon of it equals something like the weight of Mount Everest. It’s an intense sight, to say the least, which is why astronomers...
by rmil2k | Oct 5, 2023 | News
This artist’s impression of Gliese 581 planetary system, which is 20.5 light years away from Earth and hosts four planets, all larger than Earth. Credit: ESO/L. Calçada I remember well the thunderous moment in 1992 when astronomers discovered the first planet outside...
by rmil2k | Oct 5, 2023 | News
Most of the spacecraft we send out into the Solar System are never meant to return. Time, space, and entropy overtake them, or else they’re purposely sent crashing to their doom at the end of their missions. But not OSIRIS-REx. Its mission was only a success when it...
by rmil2k | Oct 4, 2023 | News
Applications 04/10/2023 1651 views 31 likes Measurements from the Copernicus Sentinel-5P satellite show that this year’s ozone hole over Antarctica is one of the biggest on record. The hole, which is what scientists call an ‘ozone depleting area,’ reached a size of 26...
