By analyzing the data from ESA's Gaia satellite, astronomers from the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO) in China have detected 101 new open clusters in the Milky Way galaxy. The discovery was presented in a paper published December 21 on the arXiv pre-print repository.
Skip to content Universe Today Space and astronomy news Menu Videos Newsletter Podcast Contact Us Support Us Log in A Hubble Space Telescope image of Jupiter in 2020. Planetary scientists studied temperature changes in its lower atmosphere and may soon be able to predict Jupiter weather . Credit : NASA , ESA , A . Simon Goddard Space Flight Center and M . H . Wong University of California , Berkeley and the OPAL . team Posted on December 29, 2022 December 29, 2022 by Carolyn Collins Petersen An Ongoing Study of Jupiter’s Cloudtops Has Been Going on for 40 Years Some of the most useful discoveries about distant objects take time to complete . For example , several generations of planetary scientists have been studying the clouds of Jupiter since the late 1970s . Their observations focused
Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has detected a new "hot Jupiter" exoplanet. The newfound alien world, estimated to be nearly three times as massive as Jupiter, orbits a rapidly rotating star known as TOI-778. The finding is reported in a paper published December 16 on the arXiv pre-print server.
Astronomers from the Aryabhatta Research Institute of observational sciencES (ARIES) and from the Physical Research Laboratory in India report the detection of 57 variable stars in the field of the open cluster NGC 381. The discovery was detailed in a paper published December 19 on the arXiv preprint server.
Skip to content Universe Today Space and astronomy news Menu Videos Newsletter Podcast Contact Us Support Us Log in March 2022 image of NASA's Space Launch System rocketâ s core stage forward assembly boasting a 40-meter 130-foot liquid hydrogen tank . Credits : NASA Eric Bordelon Posted on December 27, 2022 December 27, 2022 by Laurence Tognetti Weâ re Going to see at Least Five More SLS Rockets Launch in the Coming Years NASAâ s continued goal of sending humans into deep space using its Space Launch System SLS recently took a giant leap as the worldâ s largest space agency finalized the SLS Stages Production and Evolution Contract worth 3.2 billion with The Boeing Company in Huntsville , Alabama . The purpose of the contract is for Boeing to keep building SLS core and upper stages
By analyzing the data from NASA's Swift spacecraft and from the Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) onboard the International Space Station, astronomers have investigated an active optical transient known as AT2021fxu. Results of the study, published December 14 on the arXiv preprint server, deliver important insights into the nature of this transient, revealing that it is a changing-look active galactic nucleus.
Using the radial velocity (RV) method, an international team of astronomers has discovered two new exoplanets transiting a nearby M-dwarf star known as GJ 1002. The newfound alien worlds have masses similar to that of our planet and orbit the host star in its habitable zone. The finding is reported in a paper published in Astronomy & Astrophysics.
Editor’s Note: Look to the skies as HMNS Astronomer James Wooten explains the sky happenings for the month of December, including the science behind our winter solstice. Jupiter is still in the evening sky; look for it in the south at nightfall. Jupiter is brighter than any star we ever see at night. Saturn remains […]
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