Category: Astronomy
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The History and Future of Telescopes on the Moon
The History and Future of Telescopes on the Moon For generations, astronomers have dreamed of building telescopes on the lunar farside. Source: www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/the-history-and-future-of-telescopes-on-the-moon
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Oumuamua Might Be a Giant Interstellar Hydrogen Iceberg
âOumuamua Might Be a Giant Interstellar Hydrogen Iceberg It isn’t an alien spaceship, but new research suggests the first known interstellar object to grace our solar system could be something even stranger. Source: www.wired.com/story/oumuamua-might-be-a-giant-interstellar-hydrogen-iceberg
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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…
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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 cosmic life of ‘Celestial Handbook’ author Robert Burnham Jr.
Sky Writer: The cosmic life of ‘Celestial Handbook’ author Robert Burnham Jr. | The Underground Bunker Every serious amateur astronomer has a set of the three volume “Celestial Handbook”, possibly a bit rough and dog eared from years of constant thumbing through. This is the story behind the author of some of the all…
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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.…
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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…
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Searching Pulsars for Planets
Searching Pulsars for Planets A new study explores whether there are any exoplanets orbiting the well-observed NANOGrav pulsars. Source: aasnova.org/2020/04/27/searching-pulsars-for-planets/
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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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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…
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Data from Parker Solar Probe’s Third Orbit Now Available to the Public
Data from Parker Solar Probe’s Third Orbit Now Available to the Public NASA’s Parker Solar Probe team released a second collection of science data to the public on April 14, 2020. The release includes science data from all four of Parker Solar Probe’s instrument suites, spanning the mission’s third orbit around the Sun,…
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James Webb Space Telescope Post-Launch Deployment Timeline
1ST HOUR: Starting at liftoff, the Ariane rocket will provide thrust for a little over 8 minutes. Webb will separate from the Ariane V launch vehicle a half hour after launch and we will deploy the solar array immediately afterward. We will also release several systems that were locked for launch. 1ST DAY: Two hours…
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C/2019 Y4 ( ATLAS )
C/2019 Y4 ( ATLAS ) A new name eye comet for 2020? Source: www.aerith.net/comet/catalog/2019Y4/2019Y4.html
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The resonances between Indigenous art and images captured by microscopes
The resonances between Indigenous art and images captured by microscopes A new exhibition pairs paintings by Indigenous Australian artists with microscopic images captured by scientists. The parallels are intriguing. Source: www.sbs.com.au/nitv/nitv-news/article/2018/10/19/resonances-between-indigenous-art-and-images-captured-microscopes