• South Korea’s Danuri Mission Sends Home Pictures of the Earth and Moon

    Updated: 2023-01-31 13:25:24
    Skip to content Universe Today Space and astronomy news Menu Videos Newsletter Podcast Contact Us Support Us Log in Credit : Korea Aerospace Research Institute KARI Posted on January 31, 2023 January 31, 2023 by Laurence Tognetti South Korea†s Danuri Mission Sends Home Pictures of the Earth and Moon The Korea Aerospace Research Institute KARI both ended 2022 and started 2023 on a very high note as its first-ever lunar orbiter , Danuri , sent back black-and-white images of the Earth with the Moon†s surface in the foreground that were photographed between December 24 and January 1, KARI announced in a January 3 rd statement . Both the images and videos were taken less than 120 kilometers 75 miles above the Moon†s surface , and will be “used to select potential sites for a Moon

  • Astronomers are Working on a 3D map of Cosmic Dawn

    Updated: 2023-01-31 00:12:24
    The latest results from the HERA Collaboration suggest how the earliest galaxies in the Universe slowly dispelled the cosmic "Dark Ages." The post Astronomers are Working on a 3D map of Cosmic Dawn appeared first on Universe Today.

  • Future Space Telescopes Could be 100 Meters Across, Constructed in Space, and Then Bent Into a Precise Shape

    Updated: 2023-01-30 21:18:04
    An MIT team proposes a new method for in-space assembly to built a self-adjusting 100 m (328 ft) space telescope The post Future Space Telescopes Could be 100 Meters Across, Constructed in Space, and Then Bent Into a Precise Shape appeared first on Universe Today.

  • Astronomers Prepare to Launch LuSEE Night, A Test Observatory on the Far Side of the Moon

    Updated: 2023-01-30 16:51:12
    , Skip to content Universe Today Space and astronomy news Menu Videos Newsletter Podcast Contact Us Support Us Log in Artist's impression of a radio telescope on the far side Moon . Credit : Vladimir Vustyansky Posted on January 30, 2023 January 29, 2023 by Paul M . Sutter Astronomers Prepare to Launch LuSEE Night , A Test Observatory on the Far Side of the Moon Astronomers have not yet been able to map large portions of the radio emissions from our universe because of interference from the Earth itself . A team of astronomers hopes to change that , beginning with the LuSEE Night mission to the far side of the Moon . It will launch in 2025 and chart a new pathway to Lunar . observatories The Earth is really loud in the radio , especially at frequencies below 20 megahertz . The ionosphere

  • A NASA spacecraft discovers a formation on Mars resembling a bear

    Updated: 2023-01-29 10:00:36
    NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter snapped the uncanny photo in December. Eyes are formed by craters. A hill with a "V-shaped collapse structure" resembles a snout.

  • Scientists say an asteroid about the size of a delivery truck is headed toward us

    Updated: 2023-01-26 10:49:00
    Around 7:30 p.m. ET Thursday, asteroid 2023 BU will pass 2,200 miles above the southern tip of South America. NASA says no need to panic — the asteroid has no chance of hitting Earth.

  • Look Up | Comet ZTF Nears Earth

    Updated: 2023-01-24 21:30:00
    As January ends and February begins, a comet enters the northern evening sky, and it may become bright enough to see with the unaided eye! The comet is C/2022 E3 ZTF. ZTF is the discoverer, the Zwicky Transient Facility, an astronomical survey of the sky using a camera attached to a telescope at Palomar Observatory […] The post Look Up | Comet ZTF Nears Earth first appeared on BEYONDbones.

  • Researchers have captured a radio signal from the most distant galaxy to date

    Updated: 2023-01-24 11:43:00
    The Giant Metrewave Telescope in India captured that faint signal — coming from 8.8 billion light years away. Researchers say that receiving the signal is like reading a message from the past.

  • An astronaut tells NPR what life is like on the ISS

    Updated: 2023-01-17 21:43:50
    Short Wave's scientist in residence Regina Barber talks with NASA astronaut Josh Cassada about daily life on the International Space Station.

  • Empty Soyuz capsule will be sent to the space station to replace a damaged one

    Updated: 2023-01-12 10:09:50
    NASA and Russia's space agency said Wednesday that they're planning to send up an uncrewed Soyuz spacecraft to the International Space Station to replace the one that sprung a leak in December.

  • NASA's Webb telescope has discovered its first exoplanet

    Updated: 2023-01-12 08:14:13
    The exoplanet was found using a satellite and spectrography. It has a similar size as Earth, but is much hotter and completes its orbit around its star in two days.

  • The plan to replace the International Space Station crew's busted ride back to Earth

    Updated: 2023-01-11 22:27:16
    NASA and Russia's space agency said Wednesday that they're planning to send up an uncrewed Soyuz spacecraft to the International Space Station to replace the one that sprung a leak in December.

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