Astronomy - Space Axiom (Page 14)

James Webb Space Telescope Gets Hit by a Micrometeoroid

Since its launch in December 2021, the telescope has already been hit by at least four different micrometeoroids. However, the latest one was significantly larger than NASA engineers predicted during ground tests.

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NASA Will Create a Research Team to Study UFOs

According to NASA, the study will begin in early fall and is expected to last nine months. It will focus on identifying available UAP data, how best to collect future UAP data, and how NASA can use it to move the scientific understanding of UAPs forward.

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NASA Releases an Arcade-Style Game Called Roman Space Observer

The targets you will need to capture include orange and pink spirals or galaxies, blue ringed exoplanets, black holes, dark matter, white starburst supernovae, green rogue exoplanets, etc.

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Hubble Space Telescope Captures Two Spiral Galaxies

NASA unveiled a new image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope that shows two bright star-forming galaxies. The two galaxies are known as Arp 303. However, each galaxy has its individual name – IC 563 and IC 564.

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Astronomers Discover a Planet That Constantly Burns

Nothing like 55 Cancri e exists in our solar system. Astronomers plan to observe the planet to determine how it rotates, whether it has an atmosphere, and where its hottest spot is located.

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Astronomers Discover a New Ultra-Faint Dwarf Galaxy

Astronomers have discovered an ultra-faint galaxy called Toucana B. It is located 4.5 million light-years away, and scientists believe it could show us what stellar systems looked like at the beginning of the universe.

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NASA's Lucy Spacecraft Captured Lunar Eclipse From Space

Over the course of about three hours, the spacecraft made 86 1-millisecond exposures. They were then sent back to Earth to be combined into a video. In the resulting video, the Earth and its satellite can be seen about 360,000 km apart.

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Solar Orbiter Sends Back Amazing Images of the Sun

Solar Orbiter is a collaborative mission between the European Space Agency and NASA that was sent into space in 2020. The mission's task is to study the Sun's activity, its coronal mass ejections, magnetic fields ,and solar wind acceleration mechanisms.

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Astronomers Discover a Star With the Widest Range of Elements

These elements were made by the rapid neutron capture process. During this process, an element gets additional neutrons that then “decay” into protons, which changes the atom into a new element.

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Scientists Managed to Successfully Grow Plants in Moon Soil

Researchers believe that this experiment is a major step toward making a long-term stay in habitats on the Moon possible for humans and solving the problem of food shortages on Earth in the distant future.

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Humanity Will Need to Survive 400,000 Years to Make Contact With Aliens

In this study, the researchers were guided by data on the history of galactic star formation, metallicity distributions, and the probability of the existence of Earth-like planets in the habitable zones of stars.

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ESO Shares the First Image of the Black Hole at the Center of the Milky Way

We cannot see the black hole itself, since it is completely black, but the luminous gas around proves that it is there: the dark central region is surrounded by a bright ring-like structure. The new image captures light distorted by the powerful gravity of the black hole.

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The Alignment of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope Is Now Complete

It is now ready to move on to the next and final series of preparations before it begins its scientific work. The last phase of preparations is known as science instrument commissioning.

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Amateur Scientists Discovered More Than 1,000 New Asteroids

For the project, 11,482 citizen science volunteers have processed thousands of images taken by different cameras of the Hubble telescope from 2002 to 2021.

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China Announced Plans for an Asteroid-Deflecting Mission

China plans to launch a mission to alter the trajectory of a potentially dangerous asteroid. The test launch is scheduled for 2025-2026 as part of a larger all-planetary defense program.

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TESS Discovers Two Rocky Exoplanets Orbiting a Red Dwarf

During a series of observations, TESS recorded regular changes in the brightness of HD 260655, caused by the transits of two exoplanets, designated HD 260655 b and HD 260655 c. Astronomers were then able to confirm the existence of these rocky exoplanets.

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China Launched a Rocket Into Space From a High-Altitude Balloon

Created for air launch, the balloon was made of thin plastic and filled with helium at low pressure. The balloon was designed by Xingjian Tianhang Space Technology together with the Institute of Atmospheric Physics under the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

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Scientists Urge NASA to Send a Space Mission to Uranus

Specifically, the researchers are calling on NASA to create the Uranus Orbiter and Probe, or UOP. The mission concept involves sending a spacecraft into orbit around Uranus, along with a probe that will dive into the planet's atmosphere.

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Hubble Celebrated Its Birthday With an Image of the Hickson Compact Group 40

In the course of their journey through the universe, their paths crossed, and they are now are falling together in a gravitational dance until they inevitably merge.

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Researchers Who Studied a Triple-Star System Retracted Their Paper

An international team of researchers has retracted a paper published in 2016 in the Science journal. It focused on the discovery of an exoplanet in the HD 131399 triple-star system.

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Scientists Calculated the Frequency With Which the Moon Experiences Impacts

When NASA sent humans to the Moon in 1969, one of the many dangers was the risk of space rocks hitting the astronauts' spacesuits or equipment.

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ESA Tests the Largest Antenna in Hertz Radio Frequency Test Chamber

The European Space Agency is testing the world's largest transponder antenna. Its diameter is 5 meters. The device is designed to calibrate BIOMASS, a forest mapping mission designed to map all of the Earth's forests.

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The Universe's Expansion Could Be Coming to an End

According to cosmologists, "soon" is within 100 million years. This means that humankind is on the verge of the beginning of the era of the Big Crunch. Physicists published their study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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Telescope Captures an Image of a Dead Star's Shroud

EGB 6 will exist another few thousand years. After that, the stellar core will cool down and turn into a faint white dwarf, which will stop emitting enough ultraviolet light to ionize the ejected envelope.

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Astronomers Discover an Ultra-Faint Satellite of Milky Way

Pegasus IV is classified as an ultra-faint galaxy. Such objects are characterized by extremely low brightness but are rich in mysterious dark matter. Ultra-faint galaxies are thought to be very ancient objects, formed shortly after the Big Bang.