Last year, data from the James Webb Space Telescope soured hopes that TRAPPIST-1 c had an atmosphere that could support life. But recent results have revived those earlier atmospheric hopes. Read more from Big Think. https://flip.it/ClyATt #Science#Space#JWST
"'It’s difficult to say exactly how many asteroids will be lost… but preliminary results suggest that for every five near-Earth asteroids we discover, we lose one solely due to constellation interference. That’s if no mitigation measures are taken.'"
An initiative by "astrophysicists, policy experts, artists, and stargazers" to help people submit comments on the @FCC proposal to allow direct-to-device cell phone service from LEO satellites: https://www.kesslerrebellion.com/take-action
The Sun emitted a strong solar flare, which peaked at 6:54 am UT on May 10, 2024. The Solar Dynamics Observatory, which observes the Sun constantly, captured an image of this event, as seen in the bright flash towards the center of the image. Solar flares are powerful explosions of energy that can affect radio communications, electrical power grids, navigation signals and..... #astronomy#space#astrophysics#astrophotography
Expect new images and first science results from #ESAEuclid coming Thursday, 23 May. Five new stunning images, first ten science papers plus five #Euclid reference publications.
There will be broadcast by #ESA as well as press and paper releases by ESA and us. Stay tuned!
1112 authors for a space mission 🛰️ reference paper seems ... adequate 🤷🏽😯😁
We, the @ec_euclid will publish five main reference papers aimed at the astronomy community about the #ESAEuclid mission, the #Euclid instruments, both cosmology and other astronomy science possibilities, as well as the cosmological simulations used to test all procedures.
Available coming Tuesday, 23 May, 12:00 CEST (and on arXiv a few hours later). Stay tuned!
I'm more of a reader than a writer in 'Mastodon Space' but today I bring you something that those people I follow may not have heard of: what's likely to be the first attempt at a space suit, designed as early as 1936 in Spain. It was to be tested with a hot air balloon but unfortunately the whole thing had to be scrapped due to the Civil War. One piece of the original suit has now been found. In Spanish but Google Translate does the trick.
“We’ve talked in the past about there being academic evidence, engineering studies. What we are actually seeing now with those satellites in operation is empirical evidence. You see the noise floor on our satellites increase to the degree that services cannot be provided.”
Looking towards the southern constellation of Circinus, NGC 5315 appears, a planetary nebula located at a distance of about 8,000 light years from the Solar System. It is located 5.2 degrees west-southwest of Alpha Circini. Although its progenitor star called HD 120800 shines with a magnitude of 14, the nebula has an apparent magnitude of 9.8, much..... #astronomy#space#astrophysics#astrophotography
After years of searching, astronomers have finally detected an atmosphere on a rocky planet around another star.
But what a strange planet it is! 55 Cancri e seems to be blanketed in carbon dioxide gas bubbling out of a global ocean of lava. Like an image out of Dante's Inferno.
Why don't we ever see the far side of the moon? From Earth, it appears as if the moon doesn't rotate at all, but it does spin on its axis, just like Earth does. However, the moon is tidally locked to our planet. That means it takes just as long for the moon to rotate about its axis as it does to orbit Earth — roughly one month.
This scattered collection of stars is actually an irregular dwarf galaxy called Holmberg IX. It resides just off the outer edge of Messier 81, a large spiral galaxy located 11.8 million light years from the Milky Way and located in the direction of the Ursa Major constellation. This image taken by the Space Telescope shows that Holmberg IX belongs to a type of..... #astronomy#space#astrophysics#astrophotography