by rmil2k | Feb 28, 2024 | News
Intuitive Machines’ Odysseus moon lander overcame a number of hurdles during its epic touchdown last week, including one or more broken legs.The 14-foot-tall (4.3 meters) Odysseus settled onto the gray dirt near the moon’s south pole on Thursday (Feb. 22),...
by rmil2k | Feb 28, 2024 | News
A faint trio | Astronomy Magazine false product a-faint-trio A faint trio A faint trio | Astronomy Magazine Bill Batchelor, taken from Coquitlam, B.C., Canada The unusual shape of the supernova remnant Sharpless 2–224 (right) in Auriga is thought to be caused by...
by rmil2k | Feb 28, 2024 | News
Universe Today has explored the importance of studying impact craters, planetary surfaces, exoplanets, astrobiology, and solar physics, and what this myriad of scientific disciplines can teach scientists and the public regarding the search for life beyond Earth. Here,...
by rmil2k | Feb 28, 2024 | News
Following a hugely successful mission and almost 30 years in orbit, ESA’s ERS-2 reentered Earth’s atmosphere at approximately 18:17 CET (17:17 UTC) on 21 February 2024.Predicting the exact time and location of ERS-2’s natural reentry was made more difficult by the...
by rmil2k | Feb 27, 2024 | News
A stadium-sized asteroid tumbled harmlessly past Earth this month as a powerful NASA radar system watched.Asteroid 2008 OS7 passed by Earth on Feb. 2, 2024 at a safe distance of 1.8 million miles (2.9 million kilometers), about 7.5 times farther than the Earth-moon...
