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Will SpaceX’s Innovation Save NASA’s Mars Mission?
SciTechDaily· 1 day agoNASA’s Mars Sample Return mission is grappling with escalating costs and a postponed timeline, prompting a search for more efficient methods from the...
Looking for an Unexpected Place to Glimpse the Milky Way? Try Nebraska.
Smithsonian Magazine· 4 days agoHome to clear skies along the path of totality, Nebraska emerged as a prime spot not just to observe...
Hellish winds, liquid rock clouds and more discovered on this "hot Jupiter"
TechSpot· 7 days agoThanks to some new observations from the powerful James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have constructed the first global temperature map of this oven-like world - and the picture it paints ...
Radio astronomers bypass disturbing Earth's atmosphere with new calibration technique
Phys.org· 4 days agoThe technique allowed astronomers to take clear radio images of the universe at frequencies between 16 and 30 MHz for the first time. This was thought to be impossible, because the ionosphere ...
Exoplanet WASP-43 b weather is hot and wild
EarthSky· 4 days agoAn international team of astronomers did just that for the exoplanet WASP-43 b. The researchers said on April 30, 2024, that the tidally locked “hot Jupiter” is cloudy on its nightside, but clear on its dayside.
Eta Aquarid meteor shower peak could spawn over 100 'shooting stars' per hour this weekend
SPACE.com· 7 days agoIt has been 38 years since Halley's Comet last passed through the inner solar system. Or maybe, if...
JWST Provides a Weather Report from the Exoplanet Wasp-43 b
Sci Fi Wire· 4 days agoUsing the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), a team of astronomers recently managed to build a...
From Inferno to Rainbow: Discovering WASP-76b’s Atmospheric Marvel
SciTechDaily· 3 days agoData from Cheops and its friends suggest that between the unbearable heat and light of exoplanet...
Glow of an exoplanet may be from starlight reflecting off liquid iron
Ars Technica· 6 days agoMany phenomena that happen on Earth—such as rain, hurricanes, and auroras—also occur on other planets in our Solar System if the conditions are right. Now we have evidence from outside our Solar ...
A Better View of the Universe: World’s Highest Observatory Opens
SciTechDaily· 2 days agoOn April 30, 2024, the University of Tokyo Atacama Observatory (TAO) marked a significant milestone...