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This is How NASA Releases Almost Half a Million Gallons of Water in 60 Seconds To keep the extremely powerful Space Launch System safe during launch, NASA has developed the IOP/SS (Ignition Overpressure Protection and Sound Suppression water deluge system. It releases almost half a million gallons of water during launch. The post This is How NASA Releases Almost Half a Million Gallons of Water in 60 Seconds appeared first on Universe Today. Universe Today Go to Source Powered by WPeMaticoRead More →

To Find Evidence of Life on Exoplanets, Scientists Should Search for “Purple Earths” Finding potentially habitable planets beyond our Solar System is no easy task. While the number of confirmed extra-solar planets has grown by leaps and bounds in recent decades (3791 and counting!), the vast majority have been detected using indirect methods. This means that characterizing the atmospheres and surface conditions of these planets has been a … Continue reading “To Find Evidence of Life on Exoplanets, Scientists Should Search for “Purple Earths”” The post To Find Evidence of Life on Exoplanets, Scientists Should Search for “Purple Earths” appeared first on Universe Today. UniverseRead More →

Astronomy Cast Ep. 502: No Touching: Determining Composition of Worlds Remotely We’re not learning that the vast majority of potentially habitable worlds out there are actually icy moons like Europa and Enceladus. Good news, there are hundreds, if not thousands of times more of them than worlds like Earth. Bad news, they’re locked in ice. What have we learned about water worlds and their potential for … Continue reading “Astronomy Cast Ep. 502: No Touching: Determining Composition of Worlds Remotely” The post Astronomy Cast Ep. 502: No Touching: Determining Composition of Worlds Remotely appeared first on Universe Today. Universe Today Go to Source Powered byRead More →

How the Hubble Unlocked the Universe As engineers and technicians work diligently to diagnose and develop a solution (at best) or work around (at worst) the recent gyroscope issues in the Hubble Space Telescope, it gives us a moment to check in and reflect on some of its greatest feats of science. Don’t worry, that great observatory in the sky isn’t … Continue reading “How the Hubble Unlocked the Universe” The post How the Hubble Unlocked the Universe appeared first on Universe Today. Universe Today Go to Source Powered by WPeMaticoRead More →

A Red Dwarf Blasts off a Superflare. Any Life on its Planets Would Have a Very Bad Day Astronomers observed a red dwarf superflare much more powerful than anything our Sun can produce. Bad news for any habitable-zone planets orbiting it. The post A Red Dwarf Blasts off a Superflare. Any Life on its Planets Would Have a Very Bad Day appeared first on Universe Today. Universe Today Go to Source Powered by WPeMaticoRead More →

How Mission Delays Hurt Young Astronomers Back in Ye Olden Times, the job of astronomer was a pretty exclusive club. Either you needed to be so rich and so bored that you could design, build, and operate your own private observatory, or you needed to have a rich and bored friend who could finance your cosmic curiosity for you. By contrast, … Continue reading “How Mission Delays Hurt Young Astronomers” The post How Mission Delays Hurt Young Astronomers appeared first on Universe Today. Universe Today Go to Source Powered by WPeMaticoRead More →

A Star Exploded as a Supernova and Then Collapsed Into a Neutron Star. But Only a Fraction of its Matter was Released An international team of scientists recently witnessed the birth of a binary neutron star system, which was indicated by a rather faint and short-lived supernova. The post A Star Exploded as a Supernova and Then Collapsed Into a Neutron Star. But Only a Fraction of its Matter was Released appeared first on Universe Today. Universe Today Go to Source Powered by WPeMaticoRead More →

Review: The Most Unknown We recently came across a fascinating documentary that not only looks at some of the big questions today in multi-interdisciplinary science. We’re talking about The Most Unknown, directed by Peabody-award winning filmmaker Ian Cheney The post Review: The Most Unknown appeared first on Universe Today. Universe Today Go to Source Powered by WPeMaticoRead More →

Australian astronomers have been able to double the number of mysterious fast radio bursts discovered so far Using the Australia Square Kilometer Array Pathfinder in western Australia, a team of researchers almost doubled the number of FRBs observed in our Universe The post Australian astronomers have been able to double the number of mysterious fast radio bursts discovered so far appeared first on Universe Today. Universe Today Go to Source Powered by WPeMaticoRead More →

Surprising Discovery. Four Giant Planets Found Around a Very Young Star What exactly is a “normal” solar system? If we thought we had some idea in the past, we definitely don’t now. And a new study led by astronomers at Cambridge University has reinforced this fact. The new study found four gas giant planets, similar to our own Jupiter and Saturn, orbiting a very young star … Continue reading “Surprising Discovery. Four Giant Planets Found Around a Very Young Star” The post Surprising Discovery. Four Giant Planets Found Around a Very Young Star appeared first on Universe Today. Universe Today Go to Source Powered byRead More →

Here’s What the First Images from the Event Horizon Might Look Like The Event Horizon Telescope has completed its observations. Now scientists are crunching the data and hope to soon have the very first picture of a black hole’s event horizon. The post Here’s What the First Images from the Event Horizon Might Look Like appeared first on Universe Today. Universe Today Go to Source Powered by WPeMaticoRead More →

You’ve Got to Watch this Stunning NASA Video of Arctic Sea Ice. Now at its Lowest Levels In the 60 years that NASA has been keeping track, the arctic seasonal sea ice is the thinnest and youngest it’s ever been. It also covers a much smaller area. The post You’ve Got to Watch this Stunning NASA Video of Arctic Sea Ice. Now at its Lowest Levels appeared first on Universe Today. Universe Today Go to Source Powered by WPeMaticoRead More →

Astronomers Get Ready, Another Artificial Star to Ruin Your Data is Coming. Artist is Planning to Launch a Giant, Unfolding Structure That’ll be Bright in the Sky For a Few Months In collaboration with the Nevada Museum of Art and some private aerospace companies, artists Trevor Paglen plans to launch the world’s first satellite that has a strictly artistic purpose. The post Astronomers Get Ready, Another Artificial Star to Ruin Your Data is Coming. Artist is Planning to Launch a Giant, Unfolding Structure That’ll be Bright in the Sky For a Few Months appeared first on Universe Today. Universe Today Go to Source Powered byRead More →

Plans for a Modular Martian Base on that Would Provide its own Radiation Shielding At this year’s AIAA Space and Astronautics Forum and Exposition, engineer Marco Peroni presented his proposal for a modular Martian base that would provide its own radiation shielding. The post Plans for a Modular Martian Base on that Would Provide its own Radiation Shielding appeared first on Universe Today. Universe Today Go to Source Powered by WPeMaticoRead More →

The Path that MASCOT Took Across Asteroid Ryugu During its 17 Hours of Life The tiny robot lander MASCOT did a fine job on the surface of asteroid Ryugu, and its zigzag path allowed it to gather important data on this ancient piece of rock. The post The Path that MASCOT Took Across Asteroid Ryugu During its 17 Hours of Life appeared first on Universe Today. Universe Today Go to Source Powered by WPeMaticoRead More →

Carnival of Space #582 This week’s Carnival of Space is hosted by Allen Versfeld at his Urban Astronomer blog. Click here to read Carnival of Space #582. And if you’re interested in looking back, here’s an archive to all the past Carnivals of Space. If you’ve got a space-related blog, you should really join the carnival. Just email an entry … Continue reading “Carnival of Space #582” The post Carnival of Space #582 appeared first on Universe Today. Universe Today Go to Source Powered by WPeMaticoRead More →

Even Ganymede is Showing Tectonic Activity. We’re Going to Need Another Icy Moon Orbiter A new study shows that the surface of Ganymede was once a very tectonically active place, with evidence of slip-faulting similar to the San Andreas Fault. The post Even Ganymede is Showing Tectonic Activity. We’re Going to Need Another Icy Moon Orbiter appeared first on Universe Today. Universe Today Go to Source Powered by WPeMaticoRead More →

The Milky Way Could Be Spreading Life From Star to Star A new study from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics addresses the possibility of panspermia on a galactic (and intergalactic) scale The post The Milky Way Could Be Spreading Life From Star to Star appeared first on Universe Today. Universe Today Go to Source Powered by WPeMaticoRead More →

Next Generation Telescopes Could Use “Teleportation” to Take Better Images According to a new study by an international team of scientists, quantum mechanics may allow for some truly-cutting edge astronomy in the near future. The post Next Generation Telescopes Could Use “Teleportation” to Take Better Images appeared first on Universe Today. Universe Today Go to Source Powered by WPeMaticoRead More →

What Neil Armstrong’s Sons Really Think About the Movie “First Man” Like millions of other people around the world, on July 20, 1969, Rick and Mark Armstrong watched Apollo 11’s moon landing on the television set in their living room. But for those two boys – aged 12 and 6 at the time – it was their Dad who was taking humanity’s first steps on another … Continue reading “What Neil Armstrong’s Sons Really Think About the Movie “First Man”” The post What Neil Armstrong’s Sons Really Think About the Movie “First Man” appeared first on Universe Today. Universe Today Go to Source Powered byRead More →