Weekly Space Hangout: September 16, 2020 – Dr. Merav Opher Discusses the Shape of the Sun’s Heliosphere
https://youtu.be/Rwpe3ITvv60 This week we are pleased to welcome Dr. Merav Opher, Professor from the Astronomy Department of Boston University and…
Astronomers Measure a 1-billion Tesla Magnetic Field on the Surface of a Neutron Star
We recently observed the strongest magnetic field ever recorded in the Universe. The record-breaking field was discovered at the surface…
Colliding Neutron Stars Don’t Make Enough Gold to Explain What We See in the Universe
Much of the gold we find on Earth was created by colliding neutron stars, but astronomers now know gold must…
Check Out How Big the Planets and the Moon Will be in Our Sky Over the Next Two Years
Everything in space is moving. Galaxies collide and merge, massive clouds of gas migrate, and asteroids, comets, and rogue planets…
Thousands Saw a UFO in New Jersey. It was the Goodyear Blimp
It was like the opening scene from a movie: cars pulled over on a busy freeway, with everyone gawking in…
Missions Are Already Being Planned to Figure Out What’s Creating the Biosignature on Venus
The discovery of phosphine in the upper clouds in Venus' atmosphere has generated a lot of excitement. On Earth, phosphine…
Uranus’ Moons are Surprisingly Similar to Dwarf Planets in the Kuiper Belt
Astronomer William Herschel discovered Uranus—and two of its moons—230 years ago. Now a group of astronomers working with data from…
Sunrises Across the Solar System
Scientists have learned a lot about the atmospheres on various worlds in our Solar System simply from planetary sunrises or…
NASA Will Pay You to Retrieve Regolith and Rocks from the Moon
NASA is offering to pay commercial contractors to retrieve lunar regolith and rocks to demonstrate their ability to harvest resources…
Astronomers Have Discovered a 2-km Asteroid Orbiting Closer to the Sun than Venus
Astronomers have painstakingly built models of the asteroid population, and those models predict that there will be ~1 km sized…