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The Quirky Underdogs Of The Solar System

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Source: See here In The News: The Sun is orbited by eight planets, at least five dwarf planets, tens of thousands of asteroids, and around three trillion comets and icy bodies. Although not all objects of the solar system are as well known as Earth, Jupiter, or other celestial bodies with main character energy, they still make up a valuable part of our star system and contribute to our understanding of its origins. From quasi-moons to asteroids with rings, the Solar System is beaming with weird and exotic objects that tell the story of how it came to be billions of years ago. As an ancient planetesimal in the Kuiper Belt, Arrokoth likely for...

The Mysterious Pairs Of Planets We Still Can't Explain

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Read more: Found here We thought we broadly understood how planets and stars form. But the discovery of dozens of pairs of young planets in a nearby nebula threatens to turn that on its head. They are worlds that simply defy explanation. Drifting through the Orion Nebula – an enormous cloud of dust and gas relatively close by in our galaxy – are what appears to be dozens of Jupiter-sized planets that don't conform to the conventional understanding of how planetary systems form. Rather than being bound to a star like the Earth...

Was There A UFO On Display At A New York State Air Show?

Read more: Visit website In The News: There has been a lot of talk and attention surrounding the phenomenon of Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) lately. Even Congress has held hearings about them. Most recently, people in New York State were talking about what they may or may not have seen during an air show downstate. The celebrity and entertainment news website TMZ first released the video they obtained exclusively of the footage taken during a NAVY Blue Angels air show on Long Island. As TMZ reported , if you blink you will certainly miss it. But, you can see in the video above the split second of some object appear and disappear quickly. The sighting happened during an annual ...

China Stands Ready To Step Up Space Cooperation With Arab States

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Reference: Visit website Global Times reporter tracking China's space programs and cutting-edge science and technology projects. China presents the Arab side with the flags of all Arab League member states and the Arab League flag, which were brought to the China Space Station via the Shenzhou-17 spacecraft on October 26, 2023, and returned to Earth with the Shenzhou-16 spacecraft on October 31, 2023. The presentation took place at the 10th Ministerial Conference of the China-Arab Cooperation Forum in Beijing on Thursday, symbolizing the enduring Ch...

Astronomers Spot Giant Planet That's As Light As Cotton Candy

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More details: Visit website In The News: WASP-193b, a newly discovered planet, is larger than Jupiter but has a remarkably low density similar to cotton candy. This anomaly challenges existing planetary formation theories and presents a unique case among known planets. Further analysis, particularly of its atmospheric properties, could provide deeper insights into its unusual characteristics. Credit: SciTechDaily.com Astronomers have discovered WASP-193b, an extraordinarily light planet orbiting a distant star in our galaxy. It outstrips Jupiter in size but matches the density of cotton candy, presenting a my...

Why The US Hasn't Sent Humans To Mars Yet

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Source: Visit website In The News: I Just Learned What 'Milky Way' Stands For, And It Has Nothing To Do With Space We've written before at HuffPost UK about why Hobnobs , Twix , and Snickers are called what they are. But given how many chocolate bars' brands are space-themed ― Mars, Galaxy, and Milky Way, for instance ― it feels odd to think we haven't addressed any seemingly astronomic names yet. Milky Way bars in the US are similar to the UK's Mars bars, boasting a creamy nougat base and a caramel topping. The UK Milky Way bar, however, has a fluffy, vanilla-flavoured nougat filling ― but ...

Ed Dwight Finally Goes To Space On Blue Origin As 1st U.S. Black Astronaut

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Reference: See here In The News: Ed Dwight told himself the same story for decades: It didn't matter that he never made it into space. Dwight was the first Black man selected for an American astronaut-training program in 1962. He had spent years at Edwards Air Force Base in California doing zero-gravity training, running test planes and manning experiments that help set the foundation for U.S. space travel. Despite the rigorous training, Dwight was never selected for a NASA mission. Then, last week, Dwight broke another barrier when, at 90, he became the oldest person to travel into space. When h...

NASA Finds Potentially Habitable Earth-sized Exoplanet

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More details: Visit website In The News: Scientists have discovered a theoretically habitable, Earth-size planet | CNN Two teams of scientists have discovered a theoretically habitable planet, smaller than Earth but bigger than Venus , orbiting a small star about 40 light-years away. Since its star is so much smaller than the sun, Gliese 12b still falls within the habitable zone — the ideal distance away from a star where liquid water can exist — even though it completes its orbit every 12.8 days. Working on the assumption that the exoplanet doesn't have an atmosphere, scientists calculated its surface temperature to be around 107 degree...

SpaceX Launches Starlink Tuesday Morning From Cape Canaveral

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Source: Visit website After multiple delays, a SpaceX Falcon 9 sprung off the launch pad and into the bright Florida morning sky Tuesday with the rocket's second stage carrying 23 Starlink satellites into orbit. As countdown had moved towards what was planned to be a 7:30 a.m. EDT launch on Tuesday, SpaceX announced a launch hold. While SpaceX did not provide a reason, a statement was given on X (formerly Twitter) that the rocket and Starlink satellites were in good condition. The launch hold lasted more than two hours before...

'Traveling At 37,070 Kmph': NASA Alerts Of A Massive Aircraft-sized Asteroid Approaching Earth Today

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More details: See here In The News: Business News India: Latest Business News Today, Share Market, Economy High extreme fear ( It suggests that investors are fearful in the market, but the action to be taken depends on the MMI trajectory. If it is dropping from Greed to Fear, it means fear is increasing in the market ⁘ investors should wait till it reaches Extreme Fear, as that is when the market is expected to turn upwards If MMI is coming Neutral towards Greed zone, it means greed is increasing in the market and investors should be cautious in opening new positions. ...

ESA's Euclid Celebrates First Science With Sparkling Cosmic Views

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Read more: Visit website In The News: Today, ESA's Euclid space mission releases five unprecedented new views of the Universe. The never-before-seen images demonstrate Euclid's ability to unravel the secrets of the cosmos and enable scientists to hunt for rogue planets, use lensed galaxies to study mysterious matter, and explore the evolution of the Universe. The new images are part of Euclid's Early Release Observations. They accompany the mission's first scientific data, also made public today, and 10 forthcoming science papers. The treasure trove comes less than a year after the space telescope's launch, and roughly six m...

Network Of Robotic Telescopes Finds New Earth-Sized World Orbiting An Ultra-Cool Star

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Reference: Visit website Artist⁘s view of exoplanet SPECULOOS-3 b orbiting its star. The planet is as big as the Earth, while its star is slightly larger than Jupiter, but much more massive. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Astronomers have discovered an Earth-sized planet, SPECULOOS-3 b, orbiting an ultra-cool red dwarf star just 55 light years away. This tidally locked planet, which completes an orbit every 17 hours, was found by the international SPECULOOS project using a network of robotic telescopes. The planet is only the second of its kind to be disco...

An Approach To Enable Both Locomotion And Manipulation In A Snake-inspired Robot

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Source: See here In The News: This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: In contrast with many wheeled and legged robots, however, most snake-like robots cannot pick up and manipulate objects. This significantly limits their real-world applications , as it prevents them from completing tasks that entail more advanced interactions with their surroundings. A research team at Northeastern University's Silicon Synapse Lab supervised by Prof. Alireza Ramezani recently introduced a new approach that could allow snake-...

James Webb Telescope Discovers Carbon Dioxide On The Outskirts Of Our Solar System

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Read more: Found here The study was led by planetary scientists Mário Nascimento De Prá and Noemí Pinilla-Alonso from the University of Central Florida's Florida Space Institute. They used JWST's infrared spectral capabilities to examine 59 TNOs and Centaurs, identifying carbon dioxide in 56 objects and carbon monoxide in 28. The groundbreaking study, published in Nature Astronomy, suggests that carbon dioxide ice was abundant in the cold outer regions of the protoplanetary disk from which the solar system formed. The origins of the carbon monox...

NASA Sees A 'Platypus' Move On Jupiter's Moon Europa

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Read more: Visit website In The News: Why it's so special: Slightly smaller than Earth's moon , Europa is more like a planet. It has a magnetic field , a tenuous oxygen atmosphere and a liquid iron core. It also has an icy shell 11 miles (18 km) thick that hides a salty ocean beneath. Does that salty ocean bubble up through the ice? Yes, suggests a newly published image of Europa returned to Earth by NASA's Juno spacecraft, which has been orbiting Jupiter since 2016. Juno's ultra-sensitive Stellar Reference Unit instrument snapped an image during a close flyby on Sep...

Do Aliens Exist? Are We Alone? Here's What We Know So Far

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Reference: Visit website In The News: In recent times, military pilots in the US have seen things that look otherworldly. The Pentagon has established an office to look into the sightings. US Congress has heard hearings. Moreover, UFOs were rebranded. Unidentified flying objects are now, per the US government edict, unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs). #news ...

Why Are The Department Of Defense And Space Force Talking About Buying Foreign Space Technology?

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Read more: Visit website In its United States Space Force Commercial Space Strategy , released April 8, the United States government discussed buying commercial, foreign-made, off-the-shelf products rather than investing solely in developing and building specific military solutions within the government or by using government contractors. This is a departure from the approach that the U.S. has taken in the past and provides leadership guidance to move in a new direction. And it tells us a number of important things about the space t...

Evidence For 'Planet Nine' Lurking On The Fringes Of The Solar System Is Building.

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Read more: See here In The News: A huge unknown lurks in the far reaches of our Solar System — something massive enough to pull distant space rocks into extraordinarily long, thin loops around the Sun. In 2016, he and a colleague at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) proposed something almost unfathomable: a huge planet, up to 10 times heftier than Earth, way out on the edge of our Solar System. Now, they have published a study , yet to be peer-reviewed, that simulated the movements of objects on the Solar System's fringes , and found that the chance of a Planet-Nine-type object not existing was just one in a million. T...

How Artemis Astronauts Will Be Protected From Solar Storms

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More details: Visit website In The News: BOULDER — The looming crewed Artemis moon missions, which will send astronauts beyond the protective cocoon of Earth's magnetic field, are spurring a look at flight rules and sharpening space weather forecasting skills. Our planet's atmosphere and magnetic field protect us from the steady stream of radiation and charged particles released by the Sun. But outbursts of the Sun , as recently highlighted by the super-strong geomagnetic storm on May 10 that buffeted Earth via solar flares and coronal mass ejections, can also be a threat to outbound crews heading for the moon. Given the recent power...

Just A Moment...

Source: Found here In The News: Why USGA boss Mike Whan is right leader for this complex moment Our main goal, here at GOLF Originals, is to bring interesting people to you, dear viewer, without sitting our subject down in a clubhouse Windsor chair on a tartan carpet with a framed poster of the original 1745 Rules of Golf on a nearby wall. With those ground rules in mind, we brought David Feherty , golf broadcasting legend, to the Psychic Eye Bookstore in Las Vegas for our March premiere. A good time. We toured a giant sand pit in South Florida, a course under construction called Sandglass, with Tom Doak, ...

Massive NASA Exoplanet Catalog Unveils 126 Extreme And Exotic Worlds

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More details: Visit website The catalog's mix of planets is further evidence of the wide and wild variety of worlds beyond our cosmic backyard; it even shows that our solar system is perhaps a little boring. Yet, despite these planets being so different than Earth and its neighbors, maybe they can still help us better understand why our planetary system looks the way it does, thus uncovering our place in the wider cosmos. The catalog of extrasolar planets, or " exoplanets ," was created using data from NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Surve...

Bloomberg - Are You A Robot?

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Asteroid-bound Psyche Spacecraft Fires Up Ion Thrusters, Starts Cruising Through Space

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More details: Found here In The News: 'It's so complicated:' Boeing Starliner teams diagnosing helium leak ahead of June 1 astronaut launch... Starliner is still set to fly on its historic first flight with astronauts on June 1, but that could change as the team works through "complicated" issues following a small helium leak. NASA and Boeing officials emphasized they are carefully weighing the decision to launch Starliner 's first test mission with astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS). The approximately one-week mission is known as Crew Flight ...

Airbus To Build ESA Space Science Satellite

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More details: Visit website In The News: Airbus to Build ESA's Vigil Space Weather Forecasting Mission ESA has signed a contract with Airbus Defence ⁘ Space UK worth €340 million for the development of its Vigil satellite. From its unique vantage point in deep space, Vigil will greatly improve our early warning of severe space weather events such as solar storms that may disrupt Earth. "Vigil will be Europe's first 24/7 operational space weather satellite, providing valuable time to protect critical infrastructure such as power grids or mobile communication networks on Ear...

Scientists Find Earth-sized Planet. It⁘s Orbiting A Fascinating Star.

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More details: Found here In The News: Discovery alert: An Earth-sized planet with 17-hour year found - Times of India At TOI World Desk, our dedicated team of seasoned journalists and passionate writers tirelessly sifts through the vast tapestry of global events to bring you the latest news and diverse perspectives round the clock. With an unwavering commitment to accuracy, depth, and timeliness, we strive to keep you informed about the ever-evolving world, delivering a nuanced understanding of international affairs to our readers. Join us on a journey across continents as we unravel the stories that shape our interconnected worl...

The Robots Are Taking Over X-Isle As Hawked's Second Major Issue Update Arrives

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More details: See here In "Issue #2: Dark Arrival," players are tossed into a conflict with VEKTR — a robotic force. These cybernetically-enhanced adversaries have seized control of X-Isle, aiming to excavate a legendary vault rumored to contain immense power. As players embark on a new questline, they will confront various types of VEKTR units — each presenting unique challenges, from close combat GAMMA units to aerial BETA threats and terrain-altering DELTA forces. There's also gameplay enhancements included in th...

The Seven Most Amazing Discoveries We've Made By Exploring Jupiter

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Reference: See here In The News: Jupiter's extreme heft is its most characteristic feature. Owing to its gravitational prowess, Jupiter plays a "big brother" role in the solar system—it has had a hand in many historical events. Four billion years ago, the behemoth conspired with Saturn to combine their gravitational might to hurl comets and asteroids across the solar system. Such an event may have even brought about a cataclysmic period known as the Late Heavy Bombardment—when planetesimals peppered the inner solar system and potentially forged many of the craters that pockmark the surface of the m...

Six Planets To Line Up In The Skies In Rare Cosmic Alignment

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Read more: Visit website In The News: 'Planet Parade' 2024: watch guide for 6 planets aligned on June 3 The Biden administration has given the space agency until the end of 2026 to hammer out a new ⁘time zone⁘ specific to the moon. LiveNOW from FOX's Josh Breslow spoke with Professor Catherine Heymans, Scotland's Astronomer Royal about the reasons behind this. Skywatchers are in for a treat on June 3, 2024, when a rare alignment of six planets will be visible in the pre-dawn sky. This celestial event, known as a ⁘planet parade,⁘ will feature Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Ne...

Scientists To Install Nuclear-powered UFO Detectors In Space To Lure Aliens To Earth, Claims Expert - Science...

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Read more: Visit website In The News: Scientists develop technique that can create diamonds in just 15 minutes - Science News Scientists seemingly have developed such path-breaking technology, which may revolutionise the synthetic diamond industry over the coming years. Physical chemist Rodney Ruoff of the Institute for Basic Science in South Korea published the study on April 24 in the journal Nature. As of today, 99 per cent of synthetic diamonds are made using the high-pressure and high-temperature (HPHT) method. In this process, extreme conditions are used to convert carbon atoms into a diamond around ...