Month: August 2020
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This Is The Most Exciting Crisis in Cosmology
For as long as there has been a Universe, space has been expanding. It winked into existence roughly 13.8 billion years ago, and has been puffing up ever since, like a giant cosmic balloon. Source: www.sciencealert.com/we-can-t-figure-out-how-fast-the-universe-is-expanding-here-s-why/
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The First Gamma-Ray Pulsar Confirmed by the People
The First Gamma-Ray Pulsar Confirmed by the People Gamma ray pulars werep discovered a little while ago, and in onepone family, the spider pulsar, it accretes or gains matter from a nearby companion star in much the same way some spiders eat their mates. In this “Black Widow” type of spider pulsar the…
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Space Mission and Science News | NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Space Mission and Science News | NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory The last time we saw NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover mission was on July 30, 2020, as it disappeared into the black of deep space on a trajectory for Mars. But with NASA’s Eyes on the Solar System, you can follow in real time as…
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How quarantine has inspired new amateur astronomers
How quarantine has inspired new amateur astronomers (some who wouldn’t mind an alien abduction) No surprises that the COVID-19 pandemic has brought out the inner astronomer in many folks. Maybe one of the few silver linings to this wretched thing. Source: www.salon.com/2020/08/16/amateur-astronomy-trend-pandemic-comet-neowise/
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CSIRO Parkes radio telescope added to National Heritage List – CSIRO
The iconic Parkes radio telescope, otherwise known as The Dish, has been officially recognised for its contribution to Australian astronomy and humankind’s understanding of the Universe with its addition to the National Heritage List. Source: www.csiro.au/en/News/News-releases/2020/CSIRO-Parkes-radio-telescope-added-to-National-Heritage-List
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Why Elon Musk’s satellite swarm is an accident waiting to happen
Why Elon Musk’s satellite swarm is an accident waiting to happen Astronomers are worried about the SpaceX satellites ruining astro images but what’s there are the moment is nothing compared to what could happen once crashes between satellites produces a cascading fields of space debris. Crashes in space are not only extremely costly, but…
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Scientists Discover Mysterious Spiral Structures around a “Planet Factory”
CfA Scientists Discover Mysterious Spiral Structures around a “Planet Factory” Scientists at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA) announced today the discovery of a complex set of spiral arms extending to 1000 astronomical units from the young variable star, RU Lup. Source: www.cfa.harvard.edu/news/2020-16
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“Stellar archaeology” reveals remnant of ancient globular cluster that’s “the last of its kind”
“Stellar archaeology” reveals remnant of ancient globular cluster that’s “the last of its kind” A team of astronomers including Carnegie’s Ting Li and Alexander Ji discovered a stellar stream composed of the remnants of an ancient globular cluster that was torn apart by the Milky Way’s gravity 2 billion years ago, when Earth’s…