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https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/ ... ound-nasa/
Astronomers have discovered a six-pack of planets, formed at least 4 billion years ago and remarkably unchanged since, orbiting a nearby sun-like star. The new planets, described in a paper published Wednesday in the journal Nature, could provide a breakthrough in the understanding of how planets form and why there are so many between the sizes of Earth and Neptune, a class known as “sub Neptunes” that is astoundingly common in our galaxy.
These newfound worlds are hot, gassy and unlikely to be pleasant places to visit. Their cozy orbits around the parent star mean they are not in what astrobiologists consider the “habitable zone” of a planetary system. The hunt for Earth 2.0 goes on.
But what makes these planets unusual, in addition to their large number, is that they are locked into a resonance with one another as they orbit the star. One planet, for example, will make precisely three orbits while an adjacent planet makes two.
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I don't think I'll be here in 2061, but I saw it in 1986.
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https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamiecarte ... image/amp/NASA’s spacecraft Juno just had a super-close encounter with the most volcanic world in the solar system—but its stunning first image could be among its last after 56 orbits of Jupiter.
On December 30, the bus-sized spacecraft—orbiting Jupiter since 2016—got very close to Io, the giant moon of Jupiter. It reached a mere 930 miles (1,500 kilometers) from the moon’s surface. However, the spacecraft’s camera has suffered radiation damage and may not last much longer.
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https://www.theguardian.com/science/202 ... earth-nasa
An asteroid as big as a skyscraper will pass within 1.7m miles (2.7mkm) of Earth on Friday.
Don’t worry: there’s no chance of it hitting us since it will miss our planet by seven times the distance from the Earth to the moon.
Nasa’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies estimates the space rock is between 690 and 1,575 feet (210 and 480 meters) across. That means the asteroid could be similar in size to New York City’s Empire State Building or Chicago’s Willis Tower.
Discovered in 2008, the asteroid is designated as 2008 OS7. It won’t be back our way again until 2032, but that will be a much more distant encounter, staying 45m miles away.
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Astronomers (some) are worried cause of two larger asteroids that are arriving near Earth, I think it was the above one, and one that will make its appearance around 2029. Cause of concern: both will get a kick of gravity from passing our planet and will slightly change their path. One of the two is said to be on collision course on its return around 2060, the other will visit for a second kick and is said to make physical contact around 2180 (IFF our speck of dirt still exists).
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Cool! I keep forgetting that I saw one the night of the northern lights show. It didn't last this long, but I've seen them before, and I know that's what it was. It was brief, and by the time I pointed it out to my son, it was gone.
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Another amazing video from Portugal.
Nature is Amazing ☘️ @AMAZlNGNATURE wrote: This girl captured the COOLEST video of the meteor that fell in Portugal
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Six Planets Are Going to Align in the Sky. Here's How To See Them.
The Secrets of the Universe
26 May 2024
Planet Parade 2024: If you look towards the east just before sunrise, you'll witness an amazing sight: a parade of six planets, with three visible to the naked eye. In early June, Jupiter, Mercury, Uranus, Mars, Neptune, and Saturn will align in a straight line near a thin crescent moon.
Remarkably, all seven other planets are going to be in the same part of the sky in the first week of June, and you have an opportunity to catch glimpse of a few of them! However, you'll need to plan ahead. Timing is crucial, as are dark skies and a clear view of the horizon.
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James Webb space telescope photographs most distant known galaxy
Unexpected brightness of JADES-GS-z14-0 means telescope could capture images of galaxies even further away
Hannah Devlin Science correspondent
Fri 31 May 2024 14.11 CEST
The most distant known galaxy has been captured in a record-breaking image by the James Webb space telescope.
The galaxy, called JADES-GS-z14-0, is revealed as it was just 290m years after the big bang, at the dawn of the universe. The telescope’s previous record holder was a galaxy seen at 325m years after the big bang, which happened nearly 14bn years ago.
The newly observed galaxy is much brighter than expected, suggesting that the first generation of stars were either more luminous or formed much more rapidly than conventional cosmological theories have predicted.
“The universe at these early stages was different than it is today,” said Dr Francesco D’Eugenio, of the University of Cambridge, one of the team behind the discovery. “Early galaxies – this is the most distant found but there are others – seem to be brighter than expected from the models.”
The $10bn James Webb space telescope, launched in 2021, can see further across the cosmos than any previous telescope. Due to the expansion of the universe, the light from distant galaxies stretches to longer wavelengths as it travels, an effect known as redshift. In these galaxies the effect is extreme, stretching by a factor of 15, and moving even the ultraviolet light of the galaxies to infrared wavelengths where only the James Webb space telescope has the capability to see it.
These incredibly distant observations reveal the universe in its infant state and are already transforming scientists’ understanding of the early universe. An emerging theme is that galaxies and black holes appear to have grown much more rapidly than was expected.
Dr Stefano Carniani, of the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, the lead author on the discovery paper, said: “JADES-GS-z14-0 now becomes the archetype of this phenomenon. It is stunning that the universe can make such a galaxy in only 300m years.”
This suggests that either the earliest stars were far more luminous than those seen today or that the galaxy was much more massive. “We’re not quite sure which one it is,” D’Eugenio said.
The unexpected brightness of these early galaxies means that the telescope could make even more distant observations.
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All this time, I believed that eventually the Moon would be drawn down by gravity and would collide with the Earth, making a big mess of stuff.
But yesterday, reading Smithsonian Magazine, I learned that the Moon is actually drifting away from the Earth at the rate of about 2 inches a year, so eventually it will fly off and go bye-bye.
So many things I believe are also totally wrong, I just gotta figger out which ones.![Confused :confuzzled:](./images/smilies/confused.gif)
But yesterday, reading Smithsonian Magazine, I learned that the Moon is actually drifting away from the Earth at the rate of about 2 inches a year, so eventually it will fly off and go bye-bye.
So many things I believe are also totally wrong, I just gotta figger out which ones.
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The Moon a drifter
The Earth has no stamina. ![Bored :bored:](./images/smilies/boredsmiley.gif)
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Maybe our lonely rocky satellite will drift out a way and join Phobos and Deimos orbiting around Mars.
That would be a happy little moonage à trois.
That would be a happy little moonage à trois.
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Well, we know that in a few billion years, the Sun will go red giant, and the Earth will be inside its own star, and then the damned liberals will really have some global warming to complain about. ![Towel :towel:](./images/smilies/f_towel.gif)
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Sam the Centipede wrote: ↑Sun Jun 23, 2024 1:09 pm Maybe our lonely rocky satellite will drift out a way and join Phobos and Deimos orbiting around Mars.
That would be a happy little moonage à trois.
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But for now, it is just a Moonage Daydream (oh yeah!)Sam the Centipede wrote: ↑Sun Jun 23, 2024 1:09 pm Maybe our lonely rocky satellite will drift out a way and join Phobos and Deimos orbiting around Mars.
That would be a happy little moonage à trois.
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https://physicsworld.com/a/scientists-i ... eptune/?ut
Now here’s a discovery that’s pretty sweet: the most distant Solar System object ever visited by a spacecraft appears to be dusted with sugar. Known as Arrokoth, this small, irregularly shaped world is reddish in colour, and scientists in the US and France say that its unusual hue may be due to the presence of glucose and other forms of sugar on its surface. The discovery has implications for the origins of life, as comets could have delivered organic molecules from “sugar worlds” like Arrokoth to the early Earth.
Arrokoth orbits the Sun as part of the Kuiper belt of objects beyond the planet Neptune. Because it formed when two objects collided and fused together, it looks a little like a flattened snowman, with a “head” and “body” 15 and 21 km in diameter. Nicknamed “Ultima Thule” by scientists working on the New Horizons mission, it gets its formal name from a word meaning “sky” or “cloud” in the Powhatan language spoken by Native Americans who lived on what is now the US East Coast before European settlers arrived there.
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for your sweet tooth
Scientists identify a ‘sugar world’ beyond Neptune
03 Jun 2024
Margaret Harris
Now here’s a discovery that’s pretty sweet: the most distant Solar System object ever visited by a spacecraft appears to be dusted with sugar. Known as Arrokoth, this small, irregularly shaped world is reddish in colour, and scientists in the US and France say that its unusual hue may be due to the presence of glucose and other forms of sugar on its surface. The discovery has implications for the origins of life, as comets could have delivered organic molecules from “sugar worlds” like Arrokoth to the early Earth.
Arrokoth orbits the Sun as part of the Kuiper belt of objects beyond the planet Neptune. Because it formed when two objects collided and fused together, it looks a little like a flattened snowman, with a “head” and “body” 15 and 21 km in diameter. Nicknamed “Ultima Thule” by scientists working on the New Horizons mission, it gets its formal name from a word meaning “sky” or “cloud” in the Powhatan language spoken by Native Americans who lived on what is now the US East Coast before European settlers arrived there.
Apart from its knobbly shape, Arrokoth’s most distinctive feature is its colour. Unlike pink-tinged Pluto – the largest Kuiper belt object (KBO), and the subject of New Horizons’ first flyby in 2015 – Arrokoth is darker and reddish. The cause of this unusual colouring, which also occurs in a few other KBOs, is not fully understood. However, New Horizons detected abundant frozen methanol (CH3OH) on Arrokoth’s surface when it flew past in 2019, and scientists had previously found that irradiating methanol with ions significantly reddens its spectrum.
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Folks in the northern states are viewing spectacular northern lights tonight. I can't see them from my Minneapolis suburb, but others in Minnesota, Michigan, etc. are seeing some great lights right now.
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