Category: Astronomy
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Thirty Meter Telescope forges ahead with Canary Islands site – Physics World
Thirty Meter Telescope forges ahead with Canary Islands site – Physics World Officials at the protest-hit telescope seek a construction permit for the island of La Palma Source: physicsworld.com/a/thirty-meter-telescope-forges-ahead-with-canary-islands-site/
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What do you call a moon that escapes its planet? A ‘ploonet’
What do you call a moon that escapes its planet? A ‘ploonet’ If giant planets in other star systems lose their moons, the freed objects could become “ploonets,” and current telescopes may be able to find them. Source: www.sciencenews.org/article/moons-escape-their-planets-could-become-ploonets
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SpaceX Starlink satellites dazzle but pose big questions for astronomers
SpaceX Starlink satellites dazzle but pose big questions for astronomers Elon Musk’s new satellite megaconstellation will make it harder to study the sky with ground-based telescopes. Source: www.cnet.com/news/spacex-starlink-satellites-dazzle-but-pose-big-questions-for-astronomers/
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Montage – Image Mosaic Software for Astronomers
Montage – Image Mosaic Software for Astronomers Montage is a toolkit for assembling Flexible Image Transport System (FITS) images into custom mosaics. Key features for end users are: Source: montage.ipac.caltech.edu/
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Looks like the Sun, but does it spin like the Sun: measuring differential rotation in 16 Cyg A & B
Looks like the Sun, but does it spin like the Sun: measuring differential rotation in 16 Cyg A & B Looks like the Sun, but does it spin like the Sun: measuring differential rotation in 16 Cyg A & B The Sun is known to rotate differentially, which plays a large part in our understanding…
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Why Supersymmetry May Be The Greatest Failed Prediction In Particle Physics History
Why Supersymmetry May Be The Greatest Failed Prediction In Particle Physics History It was so well-motivated and compelling. But the particles never appeared. Source: www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2019/02/12/why-supersymmetry-may-be-the-greatest-failed-prediction-in-particle-physics-history/
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SOFIA Finds Dust Survives Obliteration in Supernova 1987A
SOFIA Finds Dust Survives Obliteration in Supernova 1987A SOFIA Finds Dust Survives Obliteration in Supernova 1987A Cosmic dust, a building block of stars and planets, can form in the wake of a violent stellar explosion called a supernova, according to a new study using the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, SOFIA. These surprising findings…
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Inside 3 Mars Meteorites: A Different Path for ‘Building Blocks of Life’?
Inside 3 Mars Meteorites: A Different Path for ‘Building Blocks of Life’? New work suggests a battery-like reaction that could have created organic material within Mars meteorites. Source: www.space.com/42300-mars-meteorite-organic-molecules-battery-reaction.html?fbclid=IwAR2rwhX_Wofwc5vNGCs9qA4kcHxlVyhGRNc-WNNgkiUavTqGGn9tOVRVRwI
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Directly measuring the mass of an imaged planet
Directly measuring the mass of an imaged planet Extremely accurate measurements of the position of β Pictoris from the Hipparcos and Gaia satellites allow the direct measurement of the mass of the imaged planet β Pic b. Source: astrobites.org/2018/09/21/directly_measureing_the_mass_of_beta_pic_b/
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Mysterious Light Flashes Are Coming from Deep Space, and AI Just Found More of Them
Mysterious Light Flashes Are Coming from Deep Space, and AI Just Found More of Them Last year’s mysterious outburst of deep-space light flashes was even more frenzied than previously thought, a new study reports. Source: www.space.com/41775-breakthrough-listen-fast-radio-bursts.html
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Deteriorating Kepler Space Telescope Refuses To Die
Unwilling to to go quietly into that good night, the Kepler Space Telescope is once again gathering scientific data — despite a malfunctioning thruster and painfully low levels of fuel…. Source: www.gizmodo.com.au/2018/09/deteriorating-kepler-space-telescope-refuses-to-die/
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NASA’s New Horizons Makes First Detection of Kuiper Belt
NASA’s New Horizons Makes First Detection of Kuiper Belt NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has made its first detection of its next flyby target, the Kuiper Belt object nicknamed Ultima Thule, more than four months ahead of its New Year’s 2019 close encounter. Source: www.nasa.gov/feature/ultima-in-view-nasa-s-new-horizons-makes-first-detection-of-kuiper-belt-flyby-target