Collaborate Disseminate
A small asteroid, 2024 PT5, will temporarily become a mini-moon for Earth, orbiting in a horseshoe shape from September 29 to November 25, 2024. CBS News reports: Researchers at the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System, an asteroid monitoring … Continue reading Earth Will Get a Second ‘Mini-Moon’ For 2 Months This Year
Few photography subjects offer the breadth of beauty as astronomy, and the Royal Observatory Greenwich’s annual Astronomy Photographer of the Year awards celebrate that fact. The winners for 2024 have now been crowned, including some breathtaking shots… Continue reading Gallery: Cosmic wonders in the Astronomy Photographer of the Year awards
Our solar system might still bear the scars from an extremely close shave with an alien star. Such an encounter – the closest pass we know of – would have shaken up objects on the outskirts and might even mean there’s no Planet Nine after all.Continue … Continue reading Alien star could have side-swiped our solar system closer than Voyager
Our solar system might still bear the scars from an extremely close shave with an alien star. Such an encounter – the closest pass we know of – would have shaken up objects on the outskirts and might even mean there’s no Planet Nine after all.Continue … Continue reading Alien star could have side-swiped our solar system closer than Voyager
Chinese scientists have developed a new method to produce significant quantities of water from lunar soil brought back by the Chang’e-5 mission in 2020, state broadcaster CCTV reported. The “brand-new method” involves heating moon minerals containing h… Continue reading Chinese Scientists Use Lunar Soil To Produce Water, State Media Reports
If you’re on the Moon and your phone is about to die, there aren’t many places to plug in the charger. But Honeybee Robotics has outlined a plan to build a kind of power grid up there, with a network of Statue of Liberty-sized towers containing solar p… Continue reading LUNARSABER: Statue of Liberty-sized streetlights form Moon power grid
If you’re on the Moon and your phone is about to die, there aren’t many places to plug in the charger. But Honeybee Robotics has outlined a plan to build a kind of power grid up there, with a network of Statue of Liberty-sized towers containing solar p… Continue reading LUNARSABER: Statue of Liberty-sized streetlights form Moon power grid
Ars Technica’s John Timmer reports: [T]he International Astronomical Union has a resolution that calls for a “Lunar Celestial Reference System” and “Lunar Coordinate Time” to handle things there. On Monday, two researchers at the National institute of … Continue reading Researchers Figure Out How To Keep Clocks On the Earth, Moon In Sync
There’s something inspiring about echos. Who among us hasn’t called out or clapped hands in a large space just to hear the sound reflected back? Radio takes this to a …read more Continue reading Moonbounce Music
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Thousands of scientists have protested to the US Congress over the “unprecedented and indefensible” decision by Nasa to cancel its Viper lunar rover mission. In an open letter to Capitol Hill,… Continue reading Scientists Slam ‘Indefensible’ Axing of NASA’s $450 Million Viper Moon Rover