Author: Earl White
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Remember the Supernova in 1987 in the LMC? Well, there’s news….
Another article I’ve written for BINTEL – 23rd Feb 2023: What we see in the night sky seem timeless and eternal – things change on the timescale of millions or billions or years. Even the rare, fleeting or transient events like supernova will often take hundreds of years for the remnants to be seen. But….. Back…
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Martian lake confirmation brings hope sediment samples may reveal past life
26th Jan – 2024 – New research published Friday offers hope that the sediment samples picked up by the Mars rover Perseverance could reveal traces of life — if it ever existed on the Red Planet. The rover already has confirmed an ancient lake on Mars. The new research published in Science Advances shows the Jezero Crater, where Perseverance…
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The first 3D map of magnetic fields in our galaxy explains star-forming regions
A team of astronomers including those from the University of Tokyo have created the first-ever map of magnetic field structures within a spiral arm of our Milky Way galaxy. Previous studies on galactic magnetic fields only gave a very general picture, but the new study reveals that magnetic fields in the spiral arms of our…
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Astronomers Accidentally Discover Dark Primordial Galaxy
Is this the faintest galaxy ever found? 350 unique galaxies were studied for this survey, and astronomers used several major radio telescopes around the world, including the National Science Foundation’s Green Bank Telescope, the Arecibo Telescope, and the Nançay Radio Telescope. “The goal was to determine the gas and dynamic masses of these ultra-diffuse galaxies.…
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New Smart Telescopes and Binoculars at CES 2024
My new blog article over at BINTEL! 10th Jan 2024: Some amazing new products launch in recent days at the CES event in the USA – and they’ll be arriving at BINTEL in the near future! Here’s an overview of two new “Smart” Gizmos – the Celestron Origin Smart Telescope and the Swarovski AX Visio 10X32…
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Is the Small Magellanic Cloud two galaxies behind each other?
The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), a hazy blob in the night sky easily visible to people in the Southern Hemisphere, has long been considered a lone dwarf galaxy close to the Milky Way. But a study posted online this month, and accepted by The Astronomical Journal, suggests the familiar site is not a single body,…
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Notches on a stone disk called an ancient star map
Italian scientists investigated the arrangement of incisions in a stone disk discovered at the ancient site of Lupine Piccolo and concluded that the object could be a star map. The researchers thought that the 28 dots might correspond to stars in the constellations Scorpius, Orion, Taurus, and Cassiopeia. The exact age of this artifact is…
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Secret Lagoon Found Resembling Earth 3.5 BIllion Years Ago and What Life on Mars Would Look Like
A system of lagoons has been discovered in Argentina hosting a rare range of microbial communities previously unknown to scientists. The microbial communities form giant mounds of rock as they grow — like corals building a reef millimeter by millimeter. And the University of Colorado points out that “the communities could also provide scientists with…
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Mysterious New Signals Detected by SETI: Unlocking the Strange Puzzle of Fast Radio Bursts
Mysterious New Signals Detected by SETI: Unlocking the Strange Puzzle of Fast Radio Bursts This work proves that new telescopes with unique capabilities, like the ATA, can provide a new angle on outstanding mysteries in FRB science. A team of SETI Institute scientists have unveiled new insights into a cosmic mystery known as Fast Radio…
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Curiosity rover finds new evidence of ancient Mars rivers, a key signal for life
New analysis of data from the Curiosity rover reveals that much of the craters on Mars today could have once been habitable rivers. “We’re finding evidence that Mars was likely a planet of rivers,” said Benjamin Cardenas, assistant professor of geosciences at Penn State and lead author on a new paper announcing the discovery. “We…
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JWST is Powerful Enough to See a Variety of Biosignatures in Exoplanets
The best hope for finding life on another world isn’t listening for coded messages or traveling to distant stars, it’s detecting the chemical signs of life in exoplanet atmospheres. This long hoped-for achievement is often thought to be beyond our current observatories, but a new study argues that the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) could…
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Research helps pave way for first manned mission to Mars
Scientists have greater insight into the atmospheric conditions on Mars than ever before following an international research project involving the University of Huddersfield. The findings of the project will help them identify safe landing sites with increased accuracy, and further paves the way for the first manned mission to the red planet. More here