by rmil2k | Sep 18, 2023 | News
[ad_1] The race is on to discover truly habitable Earth-like worlds. While we are starting to observe the atmospheres of large potentially habitable planets such as Hycean worlds with the telescopes we currently have, the most significant breakthroughs will likely...
by rmil2k | Sep 18, 2023 | News
[ad_1] The successful last Ariane 6 launch system combined tests HFT-3, at the German Aerospace Center in Lampoldshausen; and CTLO1-C, at Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana, show the strength of European industrial and institutional collaboration. The “Space Team...
by rmil2k | Sep 18, 2023 | News
[ad_1] Humanity is slowly losing access to the night sky, and astronomers have invented a new term to describe the pain associated with this loss: “noctalgia,” meaning “sky grief.”Along with our propensity for polluting air and water and the...
by rmil2k | Sep 18, 2023 | News
[ad_1] It takes big optics and perfect seeing (or adaptive optics) to catch cloud features on the distant ice giant Neptune. Nonetheless, the best time to see it is as opposition week. Credit: ESO/P. Weilbacher (AIP) Friday, September 15Saturn’s largest and brightest...
by rmil2k | Sep 17, 2023 | News
[ad_1] One of the miracles of modern astronomy is the ability to ‘see’ wavelengths of light that human eyes can’t. Last week, astronomers put that superpower to good use and released five new images showcasing the universe in every wavelength from X-ray to infrared....