New Australian infrared telescope to spot cosmic hidden treasures

 

New infrared telescope to spot cosmic hidden treasures

A new infrared telescope, to be designed and built by astronomers at The Australian National University (ANU), will monitor the entire southern sky in search of new cosmic events as they take place. DREAMS – the Dynamic REd All-Sky Monitoring Survey – will be located at the historic Siding Spring Observatory in northern New South Wales.

Source: www.anu.edu.au/news/all-news/new-infrared-telescope-to-spot-cosmic-hidden-treasures

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  New infrared telescope to spot cosmic hidden treasures A new infrared telescope, to be designed and built by astronomers at The Australian National University (ANU), will monitor the entire southern sky in search of new cosmic events as they take place. DREAMS – the Dynamic REd All-Sky Monitoring Survey Continue Reading

Half the matter in the universe was missing – we found it hiding in the cosmos

 

Half the matter in the universe was missing – we found it hiding in the cosmos

Cosmologists had only been able to find half the matter that should exist in the universe. With the discovery of a new astronomical phenomenon and new telescopes, researchers just found the rest.

Source: theconversation.com/half-the-matter-in-the-universe-was-missing-we-found-it-hiding-in-the-cosmos-138569

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  Half the matter in the universe was missing – we found it hiding in the cosmos Cosmologists had only been able to find half the matter that should exist in the universe. With the discovery of a new astronomical phenomenon and new telescopes, researchers just found the rest. Source: Continue Reading

The Dinosaur-Killer Asteroid May Have Hit Earth at ‘Deadliest Possible’ Angle

 

The Dinosaur-Killer Asteroid May Have Hit Earth at ‘Deadliest Possible’ Angle

This much we knew: some 66 million years ago an asteroid roughly twice the diameter of Paris crashed into Earth, wiping out all land-dwelling dinosaurs and 75 percent of life on the planet.

Source: www.sciencealert.com/the-asteroid-that-killed-the-dinosaurs-could-have-hit-earth-at-deadliest-possible-angle

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  The Dinosaur-Killer Asteroid May Have Hit Earth at ‘Deadliest Possible’ Angle This much we knew: some 66 million years ago an asteroid roughly twice the diameter of Paris crashed into Earth, wiping out all land-dwelling dinosaurs and 75 percent of life on the planet. Source: www.sciencealert.com/the-asteroid-that-killed-the-dinosaurs-could-have-hit-earth-at-deadliest-possible-angle

The cosmic life of ‘Celestial Handbook’ author Robert Burnham Jr.

Sky Writer: The cosmic life of ‘Celestial Handbook’ author Robert Burnham Jr. | The Underground Bunker

Story behind the author of some of the all time classic observing handbooks

Source: tonyortega.org/sky-writer-the-cosmic-life-of-celestial-handbook-author-robert-burnham-jr/

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Sky Writer: The cosmic life of ‘Celestial Handbook’ author Robert Burnham Jr. | The Underground Bunker Story behind the author of some of the all time classic observing handbooks Source: tonyortega.org/sky-writer-the-cosmic-life-of-celestial-handbook-author-robert-burnham-jr/

Sun ‘less active’ than similar stars

The Sun is less magnetically active and shows less variability in its brightness than similar stars in the galaxy, scientists say.

To come to this conclusion, published in the journal Science, they analysed 369 candidate stars selected because they resemble the Sun in decisive properties.

“These stars appear nearly identical to the Sun except for their higher variability. Therefore, we speculate that the Sun could potentially also go through epochs of such high variability,” they write.

 

Source: cosmosmagazine.com/space/sun-is-less-active-than-similar-stars?utf

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The Sun is less magnetically active and shows less variability in its brightness than similar stars in the galaxy, scientists say. To come to this conclusion, published in the journal Science, they analysed 369 candidate stars selected because they resemble the Sun in decisive properties. “These stars appear nearly identical to the Sun except Continue Reading

Promising signs for Perseverance rover in its quest for past Martian life

 

Promising signs for Perseverance rover in its quest for past Martian life

New research indicates river delta deposits within Mars’ Jezero crater – the destination of NASA’s Perseverance rover on the Red Planet – formed over time scales that promoted habitability and enhanced preservation of evidence.

Source: earth.stanford.edu/news/promising-signs-perseverance-rover-its-quest-past-martian-life

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  Promising signs for Perseverance rover in its quest for past Martian life New research indicates river delta deposits within Mars’ Jezero crater – the destination of NASA’s Perseverance rover on the Red Planet – formed over time scales that promoted habitability and enhanced preservation of evidence. Source: earth.stanford.edu/news/promising-signs-perseverance-rover-its-quest-past-martian-life

A long-lost type of dark matter may resolve the biggest disagreement in physics

 

“We Exist Within a Colossal Sphere” –The Void that Harbors the Milky Way (Weekend Feature) | The Daily Galaxy

    Our Milky Way Galaxy exists in void –one of the vast holes of the “Swiss-cheese” structure of the cosmos– with a radius measuring roughly 2 billion light years in diameter –the largest void known to science, shaped like a sphere with a shell of increasing thickness made up of galaxies, stars and other …

Source: www.google.com/amp/s/dailygalaxy.com/2020/04/we-exist-within-a-colossal-sphere-the-void-that-harbors-the-milky-way-weekend-feature/amp/

A long-lost type of dark matter may resolve the biggest disagreement in physics | Live Science

 

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  “We Exist Within a Colossal Sphere” –The Void that Harbors the Milky Way (Weekend Feature) | The Daily Galaxy     Our Milky Way Galaxy exists in void –one of the vast holes of the “Swiss-cheese” structure of the cosmos– with a radius measuring roughly 2 billion light years Continue Reading

Double-Peak and Destroy: Accretion in a Tidal Disruption Event Reveals Itself

Double-Peak and Destroy: Accretion in a Tidal Disruption Event Reveals Itself

Astrobites reports on the first confident detection of an accretion disk that formed after a supermassive black hole tore apart a hapless star.

Source: aasnova.org/2020/04/28/double-peak-and-destroy-accretion-in-a-tidal-disruption-event-reveals-itself

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Double-Peak and Destroy: Accretion in a Tidal Disruption Event Reveals Itself Astrobites reports on the first confident detection of an accretion disk that formed after a supermassive black hole tore apart a hapless star. Source: aasnova.org/2020/04/28/double-peak-and-destroy-accretion-in-a-tidal-disruption-event-reveals-itself

Swift Mission Observed Water from Interstellar Comet Borisov – Astrobiology

For the first time, NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory tracked water loss from an interstellar comet as it approached and rounded the Sun. The object, 2I/Borisov, traveled through the solar system in late 2019.

“Borisov doesn’t fit neatly into any class of solar system comets, but it also doesn’t stand out exceptionally from them,” said Zexi Xing, a graduate student at the University of Hong Kong and Auburn University in Alabama who led the research. “There are known comets that share at least one of its properties.”

 

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Source: astrobiology.com/2020/04/swift-mission-observed-water-from-interstellar-comet-borisov.html

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For the first time, NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory tracked water loss from an interstellar comet as it approached and rounded the Sun. The object, 2I/Borisov, traveled through the solar system in late 2019. “Borisov doesn’t fit neatly into any class of solar system comets, but it also doesn’t stand Continue Reading

Nineteen mysterious invaders from another Solar System spotted hanging around the outside edge of ours

 

Nineteen mysterious invaders from another Solar System spotted hanging around the outside edge of ours

Plus astroboffins confirm ‘masked’ asteroid heading Earthwards

Source: www.theregister.co.uk/2020/04/24/oddball_asteroids_orbiting/

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  Nineteen mysterious invaders from another Solar System spotted hanging around the outside edge of ours Plus astroboffins confirm ‘masked’ asteroid heading Earthwards Source: www.theregister.co.uk/2020/04/24/oddball_asteroids_orbiting/

New research shows interstellar visitor 21/Borisov is not your average comet

 

New research shows interstellar visitor 21/Borisov is not your average comet

Two new separate studies published in Nature today have revealed that our second interstellar visitor, 21/Borisov, packs in three times as much CO than any other comet found wandering in the inner Solar System – a feature that gives astronomers a clue as to where it formed

Source: room.eu.com/news/new-research-shows-interstellar-visitor-21borisov-is-not-your-average-comet

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  New research shows interstellar visitor 21/Borisov is not your average comet Two new separate studies published in Nature today have revealed that our second interstellar visitor, 21/Borisov, packs in three times as much CO than any other comet found wandering in the inner Solar System – a feature that Continue Reading