by rmil2k | Oct 18, 2023 | News
[ad_1] 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...
by rmil2k | Oct 17, 2023 | News
[ad_1] 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...
by rmil2k | Oct 17, 2023 | News
[ad_1] 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...
by rmil2k | Oct 17, 2023 | News
[ad_1] Meet Hera, our very own asteroid detective. Together with two CubeSats – Milani the rock decoder and Juventas the radar visionary – Hera is off on an adventure to explore Didymos, a double asteroid system that is typical of the thousands that pose an impact...
by rmil2k | Oct 17, 2023 | News
[ad_1] Thousand-mile-per-hour winds are blowing a hail of tiny quartz crystals through the silicate-enhanced, scorching hot atmosphere of a distant gas giant planet called WASP-17b, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has found.”We knew from Hubble [Space...
