by rmil2k | Dec 3, 2023 | News
[ad_1] In 2005, astronomer Mike Brown and his colleagues Chad Trujillo and David Rabinowitz announced the discovery of a previously unknown planetoid in the Kuiper Belt beyond Neptune’s orbit. The team named this object Eris after the Greek personification of strife...
by rmil2k | Dec 3, 2023 | News
[ad_1] Agency 01/12/2023 870 views 30 likes Six years of hard work and dedication paid off in spectacular fashion today, as the Educational Irish Research Satellite, EIRSAT-1, successfully blasted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California. Hitching a ride on a...
by rmil2k | Dec 3, 2023 | News
[ad_1] SpaceX added 23 more satellites to its Starlink internet constellation on Saturday night (Dec. 2).A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the communications satellites lifted off from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 11:00 p.m. EST (0400 GMT on...
by rmil2k | Dec 3, 2023 | News
[ad_1] 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...
by rmil2k | Dec 2, 2023 | News
[ad_1] 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...
