Astronomers have imaged a giant planet around a massive pair of stars, a discovery that challenges our notions of how planets form. The post Giant Planet Imaged Around Massive Star appeared first on Sky & Telescope.
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Tiny Galaxy’s Giant Black Hole Throws Astronomers for a Loop
A satellite galaxy dwarfed by the Milky Way has a black hole nearly as massive as the one at the center of our galaxy. The post Tiny Galaxy’s Giant Black Hole Throws Astronomers for a Loop appeared first on Sky & Telescope.
Read MoreObserving a Dark Nebula
This stunning image captures a small region on the edge of the inky Coalsack Nebula, or Caldwell 99.
Read MoreJapanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa lifts off for space station on Russian Soyuz
A Japanese billionaire has embarked for a short stay on the International Space Station to experience life in space before flying to the moon. Yusaku Maezawa, who earlier booked a lunar flight with SpaceX, lifted off with his production assistant Yozo Hirano and veteran cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin of the Russian federal space agency Roscosmos on board Russia’s Soyuz MS-20 spacecraft on Wednesday (Dec. 8). The 2:38 a.m. EST (0738 GMT or 12:38 p.m. local time) launch atop a Soyuz 2.1a rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan marked the first…
Read MoreNASA returns Hubble Space Telescope back to full science operations
NASA has taken the Hubble Space Telescope back online after a recent glitch. (Image credit: NASA) Hubble is back in business. The Hubble Space Telescope is once again fully operational after a glitch took its science instruments offline. Yesterday (Dec. 6), NASA’s Hubble team recovered the observatory’s Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph, the last of the telescope’s instruments to be taken online after the recent issues, the agency announced today (Dec. 7). “The team will continue work on developing and testing changes to instrument software that would allow them to conduct…
Read MoreAsteroid scientist Amy Mainzer talks space rock impacts and Netflix’s new movie ‘Don’t Look Up’
Asteroid scientist Amy Mainzer found herself in a unique position these past few months: chatting with Leonardo DiCaprio about science and asteroids. Mainzer served as the science advisor for Netflix’s new film “Don’t Look Up,” a comedy-disaster film that is set to release in theaters on Dec. 10 (and on Dec. 24 on Netflix). This movie follows a long legacy of films that feature space rocks threatening Earth, like 2020’s “Greenland,” 2012’s “Seeking a Friend for the End of the World” and the famous 1998 duo: “Deep Impact” and “Armageddon.”…
Read MoreNASA Administrator Pays Tribute to Senior Advisor Mark Geyer
The following is a statement from NASA Administrator Bill Nelson on the passing of Mark Geyer, senior advisor to associate administrator Bob Cabana, and former center director at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston:
Read MoreAstronomers Find Confounding Cone Shape in Cluster Collision
Galaxy clusters take eons to collide. Now, astronomers have caught a pair of merging clusters in an in-between stage never seen before. The post Astronomers Find Confounding Cone Shape in Cluster Collision appeared first on Sky & Telescope.
Read MoreNASA’s Laser Communications Tech, Science Experiment Safely in Space
NASA’s Laser Communications Relay Demonstration (LCRD) and a NASA-U.S. Naval Research Laboratory space weather payload to study the Sun’s radiation lifted off at 5:19 a.m. EST on Tuesday, Dec. 7.
Read MoreExperiments Riding 24th SpaceX Cargo Mission to Space Station Study Bioprinting, Crystallization, Laundry
The 24th SpaceX cargo resupply services mission, targeted to launch in late December from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, carries scientific research and technology demonstrations to the International Space Station.
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