Weekly Space Hangout: January 15, 2020 – Dr Erin Explains the Universe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g44eKQLfVtA Hosts: Fraser Cain (universetoday.com / @fcain) Dr. Kimberly Cartier (KimberlyCartier.org / @AstroKimCartier ) Beth Johnson (@planetarypan) Moiya McTier (https://www.moiyamctier.com/ / @GoAstroMo) This week we…
LightSail 2 is Still Solar Sailing, But it’s Getting Lower and Lower with Each Orbit
LightSail 2 deployed it solar sail five months ago, and it's still orbiting Earth. It's a successful demonstration of the…
Carnival of Space #646
This week's Carnival of Space is hosted by Brian Wang at his Next Big Future blog. Click here to read Carnival…
Balloon-Based Cosmic Ray Observatory is Now on its Second Trip Around Antarctica
The SuperTIGER-2 flight just completed its second tour around Antarctica in its mission to determine the origin and nature of…
New View of the Swan Nebula From NASA’s Airborne SOFIA Telescope
Using the SOFIA telescope, a team of NASA astronomers have conducted the most detailed survey of the interior of the…
Almost 800,000 Years Ago, an Enormous Meteorite Struck Earth. Now We Know Where.
20% of the surface of Earth's Eastern Hemisphere is littered with a certain kind of rock. Black, glossy blobs called…
In About 3 Million Years, WASP-12b Will Spiral into its Star and be Consumed
A new study led by Princeton researchers has confirmed that in the long run, hot Jupiters are destined to be…
Hubble Finds Teeny Tiny Clumps of Dark Matter
Using data from Hubble and the gravitational lensing technique, a team of astronomers have found definitive evidence that Dark Matter…
There’s a new method to measure the expansion rate of the Universe, but it doesn’t resolve the Crisis in Cosmology
In a recent post I wrote about a study that argued dark energy isn't needed to explain the redshifts of…
The Perfect Stars to Search for Life On Their Planets
We tend to think of our Earthly circumstances as normal. A watery, temperate world orbiting a stable yellow star. A…