Category: 2. Space
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Campus observatory adds shine to astrophysics courses
Data captured by the observatory’s telescopes is vital to students engaged in complex astrophysics projects. Credit: University of Bath A low-cost, high-value observatory with a passing resemblance to a garden shed has been set up in the grounds of the University of Bath. The observatory is proving to be a game-changing experimental tool for undergraduates…
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Constellations of co-orbital planets: horseshoe dynamics, long-term stability, transit timing variations, and potential as SETI beacons
Status Report astro-ph.EP … Continue Reading News Source: astrobiology.com
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Two super-Earths At The Edge Of The Habitable Zone Of The Nearby M Dwarf TOI-2095
TESS phase folded light curves after subtracting the photometric variability for TOI-2095b (top left) and TOI-2095c (top right). The best fitting model is shown in black, the circles are TESS binned data points, points… Continue Reading News Source: astrobiology.com
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NASA Space Station Researcher’s Guide to Plant Science
Press Release NASA … Continue Reading News Source: astrobiology.com
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John (“Joe”) Nieberding – NASA Watch
NASA Watch NASAWatch April 21, 2023 … Continue Reading News Source: nasawatch.com
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New stellar danger to planets identified by NASA’s Chandra program
Apr 21, 2023 (Nanowerk News) An exploded star can pose more risks to nearby planets than previously thought, according to a new study from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and other X-ray telescopes. This newly identified threat involves a phase of intense X-rays that can damage the atmospheres of planets up to 160 light-years away. The…
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LeoLabs highlights on-orbit maneuvers – SpaceNews
COLORADO SPRINGS – A LeoLabs maneuver-detection dashboard displayed at the 38th Space Symposium tracked the location of about 30 Chinese, Iranian and Russian spacecraft in low-Earth orbit. The dashboard showed, for example, an experimental Chinese spaceplane that had lowered its altitude in the last two weeks from about 600 kilometers to about 300 kilometers. “We…
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Scientists discover pre-low-mass white dwarf binary using LAMOST
ELM WD schematic diagram Credit: Caltech / IPAC A binary system containing an extremely low-mass (ELM) white dwarf (WD) progenitor and a compact invisible companion, was discovered by Chinese astronomers from the National Astronomical Observatories of Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC), using spectroscopic data from LAMOST and P200/DBSP, and multi-band photometric data from Catalina and…
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Radar satellite data reveals 19,000 previously unknown undersea volcanoes
Two seamounts from the Kim-Wessel catalog before and after being centered (20 Eotvos contours). Light blue colored points indicate the original location of the seamounts. Red points are the new centers chosen based on the maximum VGG value. Credit: Earth and Space Science (2023). DOI: 10.1029/2022EA002331 A team of oceanographers at the Scripps Institution of…
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The Age of Screen Enlightenment – Space & Physics | Weizmann Wonder Wander
Digital displays comprising organic materials have brought about a new era in consumer electronics, helping to mass produce brighter screens that hold numerous advantages over those made of regular crystalline materials. These organic light-emitting diodes, or OLEDs, can, for example, enable the manufacture of foldable phones that double their screen size when opened. Yet even…