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NASA Tech Breathes Life Into Potentially Game-Changing Antenna Design
Some 30 years ago, a young engineer named Christopher Walker was home in the evening making chocolate pudding when he got what turned out to be a very serendipitous call from his mother. Taking the call, he shut off the stove and stretched plastic wrap over the pot to keep the pudding fresh. By the…
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Here’s how NASA’s Roman Space Telescope will hunt for lonely black holes and distant exoplanets
NASA has revealed how its next big space telescope will allow astronomers to peer deeper than ever before into the heart of the Milky Way after it launches in May 2027. According to the space agency, the Nancy Grace Roman Telescope, or just Roman, will provide an unparalleled view of the center of our galaxy,…
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Astro Brief: K2-18b with Sarah Morrison
Recenty, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) discovered several complex molecules on a nearby exoplanet. A mere 120 light years away, this exoplanet orbits the dwarf star k2-18. Join us this week as Mike and Sarah discuss the exoplanet K2-18b and what it’s composition means. Astro Brief is a collaboration between KSMU, the Missouri Space…
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China’s youngest-ever crew of astronauts heads to space station
BEIJING, Oct 26 (Reuters) – The youngest-ever crew of Chinese astronauts departed for China’s space station on Thursday, paving the way for a new generation of “taikonauts” to advance the country’s space ambitions in the future. The spacecraft Shenzhou-17, or “Divine Vessel”, and its three passengers lifted off atop a Long March-2F rocket from the…
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UoS takes part in Arab Conference on Astronomy
Sharjah24: Stemming from its keenness to participate in various scientific conferences at the regional and global level and publish academic research across diverse fields, the University of Sharjah (UoS) participated in the 8th Arab Conference on Astronomy and Geophysics, that was organized by the National Research Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics in Cairo, Egypt. During…
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Venus’s atmospheric nitrogen explained by ancient plate tectonics
Abstract Venus is the least understood of the terrestrial planets. Despite broad similarities to the Earth in mass and size, Venus has no evidence of plate tectonics recorded on its young surface, and Venus’s atmosphere is strikingly different. Numerical experiments of long-term planetary evolution have sought to understand Venus’s thermal–tectonic history with indeterminate results. However,…
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Massive cosmic explosion creates rare elements in space
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. CNN — The James Webb Space Telescope and other observatories witnessed a massive explosion in space that created rare chemical elements, some of which are necessary for life. The explosion, which occurred on March 7, was…
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The Unistellar eQuinox 2 scope reviewed
The Unistellar eQuinox 2 telescope can be used in or out of the city thanks to the Deep Dark Technology that removes any light pollution effects. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and the long-lived Hubble Space Telescope (HST) have been providing amazing images to earthbound viewers for some time now. Along with other instruments,…
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Astronomers Want JWST to Study the Milky Way Core for Hundreds of Hours
To understand the Universe, we need to understand the extreme processes that shape it and drive its evolution. Things like supermassive black holes (SMBHs,) supernovae, massive reservoirs of dense gas, and crowds of stars both on and off the main sequence. Fortunately there’s a place where these objects dwell in close proximity to one another:…
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1st-ever radio images of an annular solar eclipse showcase the sun’s extended corona
Your social media feeds might’ve been filled over the past couple of weeks with photos of the recent “ring of fire” annular eclipse, which crossed the western U.S. on Oct. 14. But it wasn’t just photographers who imaged the celestial event. Scientists from the New Jersey Institute of Technology’s Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research (NJIT-CSTR) used…
