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NASA Solar System & Beyond
- NASA, ULA Launch Lucy Mission to ‘Fossils’ of Planet Formation
16 October 2021, 12:23 pm
NASA’s Lucy mission, the agency’s first to Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids, launched at 5:34 a.m. EDT Saturday on a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. - Celebrate Virtual International Observe the Moon Night with NASA
12 October 2021, 8:48 pm
The public is invited to participate in several of NASA’s virtual activities in celebration of International Observe the Moon Night on Saturday, Oct. 16. - NASA’s Webb Space Telescope Arrives in French Guiana After Sea Voyage
12 October 2021, 5:00 pm
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope successfully arrived in French Guiana Tuesday, after a 16-day journey at sea. - NASA Invites Media to James Webb Space Telescope Launch
8 October 2021, 8:59 pm
Members of the media may now register their interest in attending the launch of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, the premier space science observatory for the next decade. - NASA Sets Coverage, Invites Public to Virtually Join Lucy Launch
6 October 2021, 10:11 pm
NASA will provide coverage of upcoming prelaunch and launch activities for Lucy, the agency’s first mission to explore the Jupiter Trojan asteroids. - NASA’s Lucy Mission Prepares for Launch to Trojan Asteroids
28 September 2021, 7:59 pm
NASA has tested the functions of Lucy, the agency’s first spacecraft to study Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids, filled it with fuel, and is preparing to pack it into a capsule for launch Saturday, Oct. 16. - NASA Announces Virtual Webb STEAM Day Event for Students, Educators
23 September 2021, 4:20 pm
NASA invites learners of all ages, including students and teachers who recently returned to the classroom environment, to register for a special event ahead of the upcoming launch of the James Webb Space Telescope. - NASA Invites Media to Webb Telescope Prelaunch Events in French Guiana
22 September 2021, 2:33 pm
NASA invites members of the media to register their interest in attending events in French Guiana ahead of the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope, a mission led by NASA in partnership with the European and Canadian space agencies. - NASA Readies James Webb Space Telescope for December Launch
8 September 2021, 2:59 pm
NASA plans to launch the James Webb Space Telescope into orbit Dec. 18, 2021, to serve as the premier deep space observatory for the next decade. - NASA Spacecraft Provides Insight into Asteroid Bennu’s Future Orbit
11 August 2021, 6:19 pm
NASA researchers used precision-tracking data from the agency’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft to better understand movements of the potentially hazardous asteroid Bennu, significantly reducing uncertainties related to its future orbit, and improving scientists’ ability to determine the total impact probability and predict orbits of other asteroids.
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NASA Image of the Day
- Lucy Mission Set to Launch to Study Trojan Asteroids
15 October 2021, 2:19 pm
With the Lucy spacecraft aboard, a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket is seen as it is rolled out of the Vertical Integration Facility. - Lucy: Inspiration and Asteroids
13 October 2021, 2:44 pm
NASA's Lucy mission will explore a record-breaking number of asteroids. - Like Monsters in the Sky
12 October 2021, 3:21 pm
A violent and chaotic-looking mass of gas and dust is seen in this Hubble Space Telescope image of a nearby supernova remnant. - Hubble Detects a Dangerous Dance
8 October 2021, 12:54 pm
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features two interacting galaxies that are so intertwined, they have a collective name – Arp 91. - Smile! You're on the International Space Station
7 October 2021, 10:11 pm
The seven-member Expedition 65 crew gathered for a portrait inside the International Space Station. - A Jupiter-Like Rogue Planet Wanders Alone in Space
6 October 2021, 7:45 pm
This artist's conception illustrates a Jupiter-like planet alone in the dark of space, floating freely without a parent star. - A Colorful Departure From the Station
5 October 2021, 3:47 pm
SpaceX Cargo Dragon resupply ship is pictured as it backs away from the International Space Station. - Psyche Mission to an Asteroid: Electric Propulsion Comes of Age
4 October 2021, 3:43 pm
When it comes time for NASA’s Psyche spacecraft to power itself through deep space, it’ll be more brain than brawn that does the work. - Remembering the Gallaudet Eleven and Their Contributions to Spaceflight
1 October 2021, 2:27 pm
Before NASA could send humans to space, the agency needed to better understand the effects of prolonged weightlessness on the human body. - Pedro Cota: From Student Filmmaker to NASA Video Producer
30 September 2021, 12:26 pm
Pedro Cota is a video producer for NASA en español the agency's Science Mission Directorate. - Cryogenic Testing of the Webb Telescope's Primary Mirror Segment
29 September 2021, 2:57 pm
Project scientist Mark Clampin is reflected in the flight mirrors of the James Webb Space Telescope during testing at the Marshall Space Flight Center. - Liftoff of Landsat 9
28 September 2021, 2:54 pm
The engine on United Launch Alliance's Atlas 5 rocket fires to launch the Landsat 9 satellite on a mission to observe Earth on Monday, Sept. 27, 2021. - Landsat 9 Is Set for Liftoff
27 September 2021, 3:05 pm
On Monday, Sept. 27, 2021, at 2:12 ET a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket with the Landsat 9 satellite is slated to lift off on a mission to observe Earth. - Discovering Neptune
24 September 2021, 2:34 pm
On the night 175 years ago on Sept. 23-24, 1846, astronomers discovered Neptune, the eighth planet orbiting our Sun. - Seeing the Earth's Glow From Space
23 September 2021, 3:10 pm
The atmospheric glow blankets the Earth's horizon beneath the stars as the International Space Station orbited 261 miles above the Pacific.
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Astronomy News - ScienceDaily
- Scientists find evidence the early solar system harbored a gap between its inner and outer regions
16 October 2021, 12:42 amIn the early solar system, a 'protoplanetary disk' of dust and gas rotated around the sun and eventually coalesced into the planets we know today. A new study suggests that a mysterious gap existed within this disk around 4.567 billion years ago, and likely shaped the composition of the solar system's infant planets. - The planet does not fall far from the star
14 October 2021, 8:20 pmA compositional link between planets and their respective host star has long been assumed in astronomy. Scientists now deliver empirical evidence to support the assumption -- and partly contradict it at the same time. - Immense set of mysterious fast radio bursts
13 October 2021, 7:16 pmAn international team of astronomers recently observed more than 1,650 fast radio bursts (FRBs) detected from one source in deep space, which amounts to the largest set -- by far -- of the mysterious phenomena ever recorded. The source, dubbed FRB 121102, was observed using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) in China, and represents more FRBs in one event than all previous reported occurrences combined. - How the Sun’s magnetic forces arrange gas particles
13 October 2021, 5:41 pmSolar prominences hover above the visible solar disk like giant clouds, held there by a supporting framework of magnetic forces, originating from layers deep within the Sun. The magnetic lines of force are moved by ever-present gas currents -- and when the supporting framework moves, so does the prominence cloud. A research team has observed how magnetic forces lifted a prominence by 25,000 kilometers -- about two Earth diameters -- within ten minutes. - Did Venus ever have oceans?
13 October 2021, 5:40 pmAstrophysicists have investigated the past of Venus to find out whether Earth's sister planet once had oceans. - Did a black hole eating a star generate a neutrino? Unlikely, new study shows
13 October 2021, 2:16 pmNew calculations show that a black hole slurping down a star may not have generated enough energy to launch a neutrino. - To watch a comet form, a spacecraft could tag along for a journey toward the sun
13 October 2021, 2:15 pmA new article proposes that space probes could hitch a ride with 'centaurs' as they become comets. Along the way, the spacecraft would gather data that would otherwise be impossible to record -- including how comets, Earth-like planets, and even the solar system formed. - Some of the biggest asteroids in our Solar System
12 October 2021, 9:47 pmAstronomers have imaged 42 of the largest objects in the asteroid belt, located between Mars and Jupiter. The observations reveal a wide range of peculiar shapes, from spherical to dog-bone, and are helping astronomers trace the origins of the asteroids in our Solar System. - Strange radio waves emerge from the direction of the galactic center
12 October 2021, 2:00 pmAstronomers have detected a very unusual variable radio signal from towards the heart of the Milky Way, which is now tantalizing scientists. - Radio signals from distant stars suggest hidden planets
11 October 2021, 5:08 pmUsing the world's most powerful radio antenna, scientists have discovered stars unexpectedly blasting out radio waves, possibly indicating the existence of hidden planets. - Chang'e-5 samples reveal key age of moon rocks
7 October 2021, 8:57 pmA lunar probe launched by the Chinese space agency recently brought back the first fresh samples of rock and debris from the moon in more than 40 years. Now an international team of scientists has determined the age of these moon rocks at close to 1.97 billion years old. - Dwarf planet Vesta a window to the early solar system
6 October 2021, 8:34 pmThe dwarf planet Vesta is helping scientists better understand the earliest era in the formation of our solar system. Two recent articles use data from meteorites derived from Vesta to resolve the 'missing mantle problem' and push back our knowledge of the solar system to just a couple of million years after it began to form. - Extreme exoplanet even more exotic than originally thought
5 October 2021, 6:46 pmConsidered an ultra-hot Jupiter -- a place where iron gets vaporized, condenses on the night side and then falls from the sky like rain -- the fiery, inferno-like WASP-76b exoplanet may be even more sizzling than scientists had realized. - Astronomers may have discovered first planet to orbit 3 stars
2 October 2021, 6:30 pmIn a distant star system -- a mere 1,300 light years away from Earth -- researchers may have identified the first known planet to orbit three stars. - 'Mini psyches' give insights into mysterious metal-rich near-earth asteroids
1 October 2021, 7:02 pmNew research into metal-rich asteroids reveals information about the origins and compositions of these rare bodies that could one day be mined.
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Astronomy News - Astronomy.com
- Soyuz 23: How two cosmonauts almost died <i>after</i> landing back on Earth
16 October 2021, 12:00 pmForty-five years ago, an unplanned splashdown forced two cosmonauts to battle hazardous weather that left their capsule bobbing in a frozen lake for nearly half a day.
- <i>Ask Astro</i>: How much of the universe can we observe?
15 October 2021, 11:30 pmWhat is the difference between the observable universe and the whole universe? Vitthal Nath Jharkhand, India About 13.8 billion years ago, the Big Bang kicked off the universe, filling it with matter, dark matter, and dark energy. Since then, the universe has expanded into what we see (and don’t see) today. Light, the fastest thing in the universe, has a speed limit of about 186,000 miles per second (about 300,000 km/s). This means that, from our viewpoint, we can only see as far as - Martian floods filled Jezero Crater, Perseverance finds
15 October 2021, 9:00 pmImages from NASA’s latest rover uncover the history of what was once a lake — and perhaps a habitat for life. - <i>The Sky This Week:</i> Observe the Moon
15 October 2021, 12:00 pmAgainst the backdrop of a Full Moon, two planets stand still and the Orionid meteor shower peaks from October 15 to 22. - Astronomers get a 3D look at nearby stellar nurseries
14 October 2021, 12:00 pmA new map of dust in the solar neighborhood reveals how the giant clouds that birth new stars are shaped by powerful forces. - Earth's equatorial bulge shapes the planet's physics
14 October 2021, 12:00 pmMeteorologists, oceanographers and snipers have to account for this deformation. - <i>Ask Astro</i>: Will dust storms foil our plans to retrieve Perseverance’s samples?
13 October 2021, 12:00 pmPerseverance will collect samples in small metal tubes that it will leave on the surface of Mars for future transport to Earth. Isn’t there the risk of the tubes being covered by dust storms, making their recovery impossible? João Miguel Matos Setubal, Portugal Dust storms are a frequent occurrence on Mars. In addition to the smaller storms that occur every year, there are also, on average, three global storms per 10 Mars years — which can kick up enough dust to be seen - James Webb Space Telescope will look back to the cosmic Dark Ages
13 October 2021, 12:00 pmThe James Webb Space Telescope is set to launch into orbit in December 2021. Its mission is to search for the first light to ever shine in the universe. - How to watch William Shatner journey to space
12 October 2021, 12:00 pmThe Star Trek actor, age 90, will oldly go where no man his age has gone before. - Henson Crater: Lunar impact site named for Arctic explorer
12 October 2021, 12:00 pmThe International Astronomical Union (IAU) recently honored Matthew Henson, co-discoverer of the North Pole, by naming a crater on the Moon after him. - Swarm of near-Earth comets linked to recent ice giant breakup
12 October 2021, 12:00 pmThe findings are welcomed by supporters of cometary catastrophe theories from Earth’s history. - <i>Ask Astro</i>: Why do Saturn’s rings look solid when they’re not?
11 October 2021, 9:00 pmWhy do Saturn’s rings appear perfect, without blemish or irregularity, if they are composed of particles that range from as large as a house next to grains of sand? George Thomas Holtsnider Bremerton, Washington Saturn’s rings are a very orderly system. In panoramic images, they appear to be a generally flat disk with concentric structures. And yet the number of particles within the rings is similar to the number of grains of sand on Earth, each one on its own orbit around Satur - Perseverance’s first major successes on Mars — an update from mission scientists
11 October 2021, 12:00 pmPerseverance and its helicopter sidekick, Ingenuity, have been on Mars for nearly nine months. The duo have taken rock samples, performed first flights and taken images of the delta in Jezero Crater. - Colonizing Mars could speed up human evolution
8 October 2021, 11:00 pmHigh radiation, low gravity and other environmental pressures could spur martian humans to mutate relatively quicker than on Earth. - BepiColombo snaps its first images of Mercury
8 October 2021, 12:00 pmThe joint mission was finally able to take a few pictures of its destination this week.
Source: Astronomy News - Astronomy.com
Astronomy News - Sky & Telescope
- NASA Launches Lucy Mission to Trojan Asteroids
16 October 2021, 8:14 pmNASA’s ambitious Lucy mission has launched to explore Jupiter's Trojan asteroids, pristine examples of the solar system's early years.
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- International Observe the Moon Night 2021
15 October 2021, 5:35 pmJoin fellow lunar enthusiasts all over the world in celebrating the Moon this weekend.
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- This Week's Sky at a Glance, October 15 – 23
15 October 2021, 10:44 amThe gibbous Moon shines under Jupiter and Saturn, then waxes to full under the Great Square of Pegasus. Cassiopeia stands on end high in the northeast, as Capella glitters far below.
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- Two Impacts, Not Just One, May Have Formed The Moon
14 October 2021, 4:38 pmThe Moon may have formed in a one-two punch, new simulations suggest.
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- How Bright Will Comet Leonard Get?
13 October 2021, 6:19 pmWe examine circumstances and expectations for the current apparition of Comet Leonard, which may become the year's brightest comet.
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- Pittsburgh Goes Dark: Could This New Dark-Sky Ordinance Begin a Trend?
12 October 2021, 5:16 pmThe city's parks, facilities, and streetlights will all get dark-sky-friendly lighting, but is it too early for amateur astronomers to get excited?
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- New Horizons Discovers Kuiper Belt "Twins"
8 October 2021, 7:59 pmNew Horizons has spotted two asteroid pairs in the outer solar system. Their existence sheds light on how planets formed.
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- Celebrate Fall Astronomy Day This Weekend
8 October 2021, 7:01 pmSaturday, October 9, 2021, is this fall’s Astronomy Day!
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- This Week's Sky at a Glance, October 8 – 16
8 October 2021, 11:13 amThe crescent Moon returns to the evening sky, passing Venus, then the Saturn and Jupiter pair. Venus itself passes Delta Sco and then Antares. Auroras may shimmer, the Draconids may sputter; the sky never ceases to call.
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- China's Lunar Samples Confirm Late Volcanism, Pose New Questions
7 October 2021, 8:35 pmChina's Chang'e 5 mission returned pieces of the Moon in a technological feat last year. Now, scientists are publishing the first analyses of those samples.
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