[ad_1] This week, the Steward Observatory Mirror Lab at the University of Arizona began work on the sixth of the seven main mirror segments of the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT). On March 1, the lab began heating its one-of-a-kind glass furnace to a temperature of 1165 degrees Celsius. This in itself was an important step … Read more
[ad_1] On Friday, March 5, two astronauts finally set up delicate solar bar installations outside the International Space Station, which blocked a previous group of space walkers days before. NASA Expedition 64 astronauts Kate Rubins (wearing a red striped spacesuit) and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency Soichi Noguchi) spent 6 hours and 56 minutes working in … Read more
[ad_1] Scientists have long suspected that conditions in space could create storm-like conditions over Earth, but now they have evidence for what researchers are calling a plasma space hurricane. The authors of a new article published this week in Nature communications say they have the first sightings of a swirling mass of plasma over the … Read more
[ad_1] An asteroid called Apophis, named after the ancient Egyptian god of chaos, will fly close to Earth on Friday evening. The space rock is over 1,100 feet wide – wider than the height of the Eiffel Tower. When Apophis returns in 2029, its trajectory could cross high altitude satellites in Earth orbit. Visit Insider’s … Read more
[ad_1] The Perseverance rover can travel 200 meters a day, but scientists must perform tests and safety checks before venturing further. NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover made its first short drive across the surface of the Red Planet, two weeks after the robotic science lab made a perfect landing on the floor of a massive crater, … Read more
[ad_1] New discoveries from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have helped astronomers solve the mystery of why Orion Betelgeuse’s bright red supergiant faded dramatically for several weeks last year. Examining the massive red hypergiant VY Canis Majoris, astrophysicists from NASA and the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis found that the same processes occur on a much larger … Read more
[ad_1] Spiral galaxy NGC 2336.Picture: ESA / Hubble and NASA, V. Antoniou; Acknowledgments: Judy Schmidt NGC 2336 was discovered over a century ago, but the great blue spiral galaxy has never looked so good, thanks to an eye-catching image obtained by the Hubble Space Telescope. German astronomer Wilhelm Tempel discovered NGC 2336 in 1876, which … Read more
[ad_1] NASA is quite proud of its Perseverance rover on Mars, and that’s understandable. After all, it’s been just over two weeks since the car-sized rover nailed its landing on the Red Planet to begin a multi-year mission looking for signs of ancient life. Perseverance has been busy since landing on February 18 and NASA … Read more
[ad_1] Black holes, those gravitational monsters so named because no light can escape their clutches, are by far the most mysterious objects in the universe. But a new theory proposes that black holes are not black at all. Rather, these black holes may be dark stars harboring exotic physics within them, according to a new … Read more
[ad_1] (Journalist) – The search for an apricot-sized meteorite is underway somewhere near Aiguillon, France. Cameras from an astronomy facility in Mauraux spotted the small space rock falling to Earth over southwestern France last weekend, according to the Guardian. The meteorite landed at 10:43 p.m. Saturday near Aiguillon, about 60 miles southeast of Bordeaux, but … Read more