astronomy - Space Axiom (Page 13)

NASA Captured an Image of the Sun Smiling

Despite the cheerful appearance of our star, what caused its smile might be rather unpleasant for the inhabitants of Earth and has a scientific explanation.

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Mumm Designed a Champagne Bottle Designed for Space Travel

If you squeeze a finger-controlled valve, a globule of champagne will be released in the form of foam. Drinkers can scoop the wine out of the air using a tiny glass with a long stem that resembles an egg cup.

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NASA's DART Spacecraft Successfully Changed the Orbit of an Asteroid

The goal of DART was to change the orbit of Dimorphos around the larger asteroid by at least 73 seconds, although scientists had hoped the effect would be more like 10 minutes. This minimum benchmark has been exceeded by more than 25 times.

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A New Simulation Shows That Our Moon Could Have Formed Within Hours

According to a popular theory, the Moon was formed after Earth's collision with the larger celestial body – planet Theia. That collision resulted in a giant cloud of space material that later formed the satellite of our planet.

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Mars Is Littered with More than 15 Thousand Pounds of Human Trash

West Virginia University postdoc Cagri Kilic has calculated how much debris humans have left on Mars over 50 years of exploring the surface of the Red Planet. There are now three main sources of debris: discarded hardware, inactive spacecraft, crashed spacecraft.

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Astronauts Could Use Martian Soil for 3D-Printing

In most of their experiments, the researchers mixed different amounts of simulated Martian regolith with a titanium alloy. They also tried to make a 3D-printing material from pure simulated regolith.

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Astronomers May Have Discovered Remnants of the Universe's Earliest Stars

At the end of their life cycle, first-generation stars would explode as exceptionally bright pair-instability supernovae, filling interstellar space with a characteristic mixture of heavy chemical elements.

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The Webb Telescope Captures Mysterious Rings Around a Distant Star

Astronomer at NOIRLab and principal investigator of the project Ryan Lau confirmed that these rings are real, not an optical illusion. He promised that scientists would soon publish a full research paper explaining this phenomenon.

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NASA's DART Spacecraft Successfully Crashed Into an Asteroid in a Planetary Defense Test

As part of the mission, NASA was investigating whether it was possible to alter the trajectory of a celestial body by hitting it with a space probe. This was humanity's first attempt to change the celestial body's trajectory.

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The Inouye Telescope Reveals New Images of the Sun's Chromosphere

The Daniel Inouye Solar Telescope in Hawaii has taken new images of the Sun in great detail. The new images cover a chromospheric region 82,500 km wide and are just a small fraction of the Sun's total size.

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NASA Reveals New Stunning Images of Jupiter Taken by the Webb Telescope

The images that show the planet's features in detail were taken by the Webb telescope's near-infrared camera (NIRCam). It can observe celestial bodies such as stars, nebulae, and planets that are too cold or too faint to be seen in visible light.

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You Can Now Explore Mars Using an Interactive Map

The map was unveiled at the Europlanet Science Congress (EPSC) 2022 in Granada, Spain. It was created using orbital images as well as three-dimensional panoramic views of the Jezero crater.

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NASA Shared the First Detailed Image of a Planet Outside Our Solar System

The exoplanet is located about 385 light years from Earth, and, according to various estimates, it is 6-12 times larger than Jupiter and is between 15 million and 20 million years old.

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China Plans More Lunar Missions after Discovering a New Mineral There

The decision was made after China discovered a new mineral found in lunar deposits that could become a new source of energy for humanity. China eventually plans to build an international research station on the Moon.

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Scientists Discover a Super-Earth Located Near Its Star's Habitable Zone

A super-Earth class exoplanet 4 times the mass of Earth was detected orbiting within the habitable zone of a red dwarf dubbed Ross 508. The star is located in the constellation Serpens and is five times smaller than our Sun.

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NASA Released the Eerie Sound of a Black Hole

NASA has recorded the sounds of a massive black hole 250 million light-years away from Earth in the Perseus Cluster. The object is located so close to the gas clouds that it creates ripple-like sound waves.

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Scientists Reveal How Our Sun Is Going to Evolve in the Future

The Sun has been around for 4.57 billion years and has been getting hotter all along. Scientists have determined that the star will be the hottest in its lifetime at the age of 8 billion years.

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Astronomers Discover Alcohol Molecules in the Centre of the Milky Way

A group of scientists has discovered the largest alcohol molecule in space – isopropanol was found in the Sagittarius B2 gas-dust cloud near the center of the Milky Way. Sagittarius B2 is a massive star-forming region where new stars are born.

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Astronomers Find Elusive Atoms in the Cosmic Web

The atoms are hard to spot because most of them are in the cosmic web in the form of gas so diffuse that there is no more than about one atom per cubic foot of space, which is much less than in any vacuum on Earth.

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James Webb Telescope Captures a Stunning View of Cartwheel Galaxy

Cartwheel is located at a distance of about 500 million light-years from Earth in the Sculptor constellation, and its estimated diameter is 150 thousand light-years.

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Astronomers Discover the Oldest Galaxy in the Universe

The James Webb Space Telescope has detected the oldest galaxy in the universe – GLASS-z13. It is assumed that it was formed 300 million years after the Big Bang and is now 13.5 billion years old.

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Two Large Asteroids Will Fly Past Earth This Weekend

Two large asteroids the size of a multi-story building will brush past our planet later this week. According to NASA, the space bodies will approach the Earth on July 29 and 30.

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James Webb Telescope Captured a New Image of Jupiter and Its Moons

The new image clearly shows the famous Great Red Spot, an Earth-sized storm that has been raging on the distant giant for centuries, and even some of the planet's thin rings.

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NASA Reveals Five More Breathtaking Images from the James Webb Space Telescope

After unveiling the first full-color image of space taken by the James Webb Space Telescope yesterday, NASA shared five more stunning and breathtaking images of stellar objects, including distant galaxies, nebulas, and other wonders of the universe.

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NASA Unveils First Full-Color Image Taken by the James Webb Space Telescope

The rest of the high-resolution color images will debut on July 12. The first five photos highlight James Webb's unprecedented scientific capabilities and should include pictures of galaxies, nebulas, and more.