. Scientific Frontline: Space Science
Showing posts with label Space Science. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Space Science. Show all posts
Thursday, September 28, 2023

Two-decade monitoring of M87 unveils a precessing jet connecting to a spinning black hole

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Schematic representation of the tilted accretion disk model. The black hole spin axis is assumed to align vertically. The jet direction stan...
Wednesday, September 27, 2023

Extreme Weight Loss: Star Sheds Unexpected Amounts of Mass Just Before Going Supernova

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Artist's conception of pre-explosion mass loss by the progenitor star of SN 2023ixf. In the year prior to going supernova the red superg...
Tuesday, September 26, 2023

Study sheds new light on strange lava worlds

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Lava worlds are likely still in the early stages of their evolution, as some theories suggest Earth too was once entirely molten. Image Cred...
Monday, September 25, 2023

How OSIRIS-REx is helping scientists study the sonic signature of meteoroids

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A Sandia National Laboratories solar-powered hot air balloon taking flight bears sensors including a GPS tracker and reusable infrasound sen...
Wednesday, June 14, 2023

New Insights into the Liquid Core of Mars

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The RISE instrument on the InSight lander (artist’s concept). Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech. New results from the radio-science instrument ...
Tuesday, June 13, 2023

Pass the salt: This space rock holds clues as to how Earth got its water

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Asteroid Itokawa as seen by the Hayabusa spacecraft. The peanut-shaped S-type asteroid measures approximately 1,100 feet in diameter and com...
Thursday, June 8, 2023

Elusive planets play “hide and seek” with CHEOPS

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Artist's impression of CHEOPS. Illustration Credit: ESA / ATG medialab With the help of the CHEOPS space telescope an international team...
Wednesday, June 7, 2023

What made the brightest cosmic explosion of all time so exceptional?

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The afterglow of the Brightest of All Time gamma-ray burst, captured by the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory’s X-Ray Telescope. Image Credit: ...

Parker Solar Probe flies into the fast solar wind and finds its source

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Artist’s concept of the Parker Solar Probe spacecraft approaching the sun. Launched in 2018, the probe is increasing our ability to forecast...
Tuesday, June 6, 2023

‘Hot Jupiters’ may not be orbiting alone

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Indiana University assistant professor of astronomy Songhu Wang. Photo Credit: James Brosher, Indiana University Research led by an Indiana ...
Wednesday, May 17, 2023

Radio signal reveals supernova origin

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Artist impression of the double star system with a compact white dwarf star accreting matter from a helium-rich donor companion, surrounded ...

Are Earth and Venus the only volcanic planets? Not anymore.

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LP 791-18 d is an Earth-size world about 90 light-years away. The gravitational tug from a more massive planet in the system, shown as a blu...
Monday, May 15, 2023

Saturn’s rings younger than previously thought — just a few hundred million years

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New research reveals that Saturn's rings are much younger than the planet itself. Photo Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute. Saturn...
Friday, May 12, 2023

Tidal Shocks Can Light up the Remains of a Star Being Pulled Apart by a Black Hole

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In a Tidal Disruption Event, a star moves close enough to a supermassive black hole so that the gravitational pull of the black hole bends t...
Thursday, May 11, 2023

First-of-its-kind measurement of Universe’s expansion rate weighs in on longstanding astronomy debate

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Image Credit: Patrick Kelly, University of Minnesota Thanks to data from a magnified supernova, a team led by University of Minnesota resear...

Study could help solve mystery of the disappearing twins

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An image of the binary stars Alpha Centauri A (left) and Alpha Centauri B, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. Image Credit: NASA When supe...
Wednesday, May 10, 2023

Researchers measure the light emitted by a sub-Neptune planet’s atmosphere for the first time

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U-M graduate student Isaac Malsky, a co-author of the study, ran three-dimensional models for the planet, testing models with and without cl...
Monday, May 1, 2023

Webb Finds Water Vapor, But from a Rocky Planet or Its Star?

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This artist concept represents the rocky exoplanet GJ 486 b, which orbits a red dwarf star that is only 26 light-years away in the constella...
Wednesday, April 26, 2023

New black hole images reveal a glowing, fluffy ring and a high-speed jet

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Scientists observing the compact radio core of M87 have discovered new details about the galaxy’s supermassive black hole. In this artist’s ...

Scientists discover rare element in exoplanet’s atmosphere

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Illustration Credit: Bibiana Prinoth The rare metal terbium has been found in an exoplanet’s atmosphere for the first time. The researchers ...