by rmil2k | Oct 6, 2023 | News
[ad_1] heic2309 — Science Release 5 October 2023 A very rare, strange burst of extraordinarily bright light in the universe just got even stranger – thanks to the eagle-eye of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. The phenomenon, called a Luminous Fast Blue Optical...
by rmil2k | Oct 6, 2023 | News
[ad_1] NIRCam (the Near Infrared Camera) on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured this picture of the surface of Jupiter’s moon Europa. Webb identified carbon dioxide on the icy surface of Europa that likely originated in the moon’s subsurface ocean. Credit:...
by rmil2k | Oct 6, 2023 | News
[ad_1] The Parker Solar Probe is the little engine that just keeps going and going by the Sun. On September 27th, it made its 17th close approach and skimmed just 7.26 million kilometers (4.51 million miles) above the sun’s “surface” layer (called the photosphere)....
by rmil2k | Oct 5, 2023 | News
[ad_1] 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...
by rmil2k | Oct 5, 2023 | News
[ad_1] 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...