Latest Space News: Black holes that form in 'reverse Big Bang replays' could account for dark energy
Link: https://www.space.com/dark-energy-black-hole-connection
Summary: Black hole formation could be a little Big Bang in reverse, coupling the matter of a dying star with dark energy, the mysterious force driving the accelerating expansion of the universe.
Latest Space News: 'Boo Deng' steals the show at NASA JPL's annual pumpkin carving contest (photos)
Link: https://www.space.com/nasa-jpl-pumpkin-carving-contest-2024
Summary: The bright minds at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory never disappoint with the clever creations at the lab's annual pumpkin carving contest.
A beautiful video of a solar eruption, also known as a solar flare, captured here by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory. What a spectacle, everyone.
Watch that prominence rise tens of thousands of kilometers, then curve and fall back onto the solar chromosphere, pulled by the immense gravity of our star.
Credits: NASA, SDO.
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The galaxies that populate the universe have very different shapes and sizes. One of the most common types among these objects is certainly the spiral galaxy, such as the spectacular NGC 2985, located over 70 million light-years from the solar system in the constellation Ursa Major.
Look at how amazing it is in this image captured by the Hubble Space Telescope.
Credits: NASA, Hubble.
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This illustration shows the location of our solar system. As you can see, it is surrounded by a sphere made up of millions of objects composed of rock and ice, known as the Oort Cloud. This shell of celestial bodies is located at a distance ranging between 20,000 and 100,000 astronomical units (1 AU = average Earth-Sun distance, 150 million kilometers). We could perhaps better understand its scale by saying it extends from 0.3 to 1.5 light-years from Earth.
The Oort Cloud has never been directly observed, as it is too distant and too dark even for modern telescopes, but it is believed to be the nursery from which all long-period comets originate, such as Hale-Bopp, for example. This cloud is thought to be a remnant of the nebula from which the Sun and planets were born five billion years ago. It is believed that other stars also have an Oort Cloud and that the outer edges of the clouds of two nearby stars may sometimes overlap.
In 1932, astronomer Ernst Öpik hypothesized that comets originated in a cloud located at the outer edge of the Solar System. This idea was later revisited and refined by Dutch astronomer Jan Oort to explain what appeared to be a contradiction. If comets are periodically destroyed after several passes through the inner solar system and had formed in the beginning, they would all be gone by now. The fact that they can still be observed implies they have a different origin. By observing and studying the orbits of long-period comets, the astronomer theorized the existence of this cloud, which was aptly named after him. Occasionally, one of these comets is perturbed in its orbit and begins to fall toward the Sun.
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NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day (2024-11-02): Saturn at Night
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2411/LastRingPortrait_Cassini_1080.jpg
Saturn is bright in Earth's night skies. Telescopic views of the outer gas giant planet and its beautiful rings often make it a star at star parties. But this stunning view of Saturn's rings and night side just isn't possible from telescopes in the vicinity of planet Earth. Peering out from the inner Solar System they can only bring Saturn's day side into view. In fact, this image of Saturn's slender sunlit crescent with night's shadow cast across its broad and complex ring system was captured by the Cassini spacecraft. A robot spacecraft from planet Earth, Cassini called Saturn orbit home for 13 years before it was directed to dive into the atmosphere of the gas giant on September 15, 2017. This magnificent mosaic is composed of frames recorded by Cassini's wide-angle camera only two days before its grand final plunge. Saturn's night will not be seen again until another spaceship from Earth calls.
Latest Space News: 'Boo Deng' steals the show at NASA JPL's annual pumpkin carving contest (photos)
Link: https://www.space.com/nasa-jpl-pumpkin-carving-contest-2024
Summary: The bright minds at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory never disappoint with the clever creations at the lab's annual pumpkin carving contest.
NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day (2024-11-02): Saturn at Night
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2411/LastRingPortrait_Cassini_1080.jpg
Saturn is bright in Earth's night skies. Telescopic views of the outer gas giant planet and its beautiful rings often make it a star at star parties. But this stunning view of Saturn's rings and night side just isn't possible from telescopes in the vicinity of planet Earth. Peering out from the inner Solar System they can only bring Saturn's day side into view. In fact, this image of Saturn's slender sunlit crescent with night's shadow cast across its broad and complex ring system was captured by the Cassini spacecraft. A robot spacecraft from planet Earth, Cassini called Saturn orbit home for 13 years before it was directed to dive into the atmosphere of the gas giant on September 15, 2017. This magnificent mosaic is composed of frames recorded by Cassini's wide-angle camera only two days before its grand final plunge. Saturn's night will not be seen again until another spaceship from Earth calls.
Latest Space News: 'Boo Deng' steals the show at NASA JPL's annual pumpkin carving contest (photos)
Link: https://www.space.com/nasa-jpl-pumpkin-carving-contest-2024
Summary: The bright minds at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory never disappoint with the clever creations at the lab's annual pumpkin carving contest.
NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day (2024-11-02): Saturn at Night
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2411/LastRingPortrait_Cassini_1080.jpg
Saturn is bright in Earth's night skies. Telescopic views of the outer gas giant planet and its beautiful rings often make it a star at star parties. But this stunning view of Saturn's rings and night side just isn't possible from telescopes in the vicinity of planet Earth. Peering out from the inner Solar System they can only bring Saturn's day side into view. In fact, this image of Saturn's slender sunlit crescent with night's shadow cast across its broad and complex ring system was captured by the Cassini spacecraft. A robot spacecraft from planet Earth, Cassini called Saturn orbit home for 13 years before it was directed to dive into the atmosphere of the gas giant on September 15, 2017. This magnificent mosaic is composed of frames recorded by Cassini's wide-angle camera only two days before its grand final plunge. Saturn's night will not be seen again until another spaceship from Earth calls.
Latest Space News: 'Boo Deng' steals the show at NASA JPL's annual pumpkin carving contest (photos)
Link: https://www.space.com/nasa-jpl-pumpkin-carving-contest-2024
Summary: The bright minds at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory never disappoint with the clever creations at the lab's annual pumpkin carving contest.
Latest Space News: 'Boo Deng' steals the show at NASA JPL's annual pumpkin carving contest (photos)
Link: https://www.space.com/nasa-jpl-pumpkin-carving-contest-2024
Summary: The bright minds at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory never disappoint with the clever creations at the lab's annual pumpkin carving contest.
Latest Space News: 'Boo Deng' steals the show at NASA JPL's annual pumpkin carving contest (photos)
Link: https://www.space.com/nasa-jpl-pumpkin-carving-contest-2024
Summary: The bright minds at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory never disappoint with the clever creations at the lab's annual pumpkin carving contest.
Latest Space News: 'Alien signal' sent from Mars decoded by father-daughter team
Link: https://www.space.com/alien-signal-mars-decoded-esa-exomars
Summary: A signal beamed at Earth from Mars in 2023 has finally been decoded by a father and daughter team in the United States.
Latest Space News: Watch Jude Law lead lost kids across the galaxy in new 'Star Wars: Skeleton Crew' trailer
Link: https://www.space.com/star-wars-skeleton-crew-trailer-disney-plus-dec-3
Summary: A new trailer has arrived for Disney+'s "Star Wars: Skeleton Crew," a new family-oriented live-action series starring Jude Law.
Latest Space News: Which is better, Black Friday or Cyber Monday?
Link: https://www.space.com/black-friday-or-cyber-monday-which-is-better
Summary: What is the difference between these two shopping sales events, and which is best, Black Friday or Cyber Monday? Read on to find out.
Latest Space News: November's new moon makes a close pass to Venus
Link: https://www.space.com/november-new-moon-2024
Summary: The new moon of November 2024 occurs on Nov. 1, and three days later the moon will make a close pass to Venus in the evening sky.
Latest Space News: Small moon of Uranus may have once had a subsurface liquid water ocean
Link: https://www.space.com/uranus-moon-miranda-subsurface-ocean-voyager-2
Summary: Surface features of Uranus' icy moon Miranda point to the existence of a once deep ocean, one that still may exist today.
Latest Space News: Boeing can recover from its Starliner troubles, but it can’t afford any other misfires
Link: https://www.space.com/space-exploration/human-spaceflight/boeing-can-recover-from-its-starliner-troubles-but-it-cant-afford-any-other-misfires
Summary: The partial failure of Starliner’s mission doesn’t help Boeing’s effort to bounce back from its problems. The company’s reputation has not been irreparably damaged, however. Boeing can recover and is taking the right initiatives to re-emphasise a safety culture – something that’s crucial to its business going forward.
NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day (2024-11-01): Spiral Galaxy NGC 6744
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2411/NGC6744_V2_8_sm1024.jpg
Big, beautiful spiral galaxy NGC 6744 is nearly 175,000 light-years across, larger than our own Milky Way. It lies some 30 million light-years distant in the southern constellation Pavo but appears as only a faint smudge in the eyepiece of a small telescope. We see the disk of the nearby island universe tilted towards our line of sight in this remarkably deep and detailed galaxy portrait, a telescopic image that spans an area about the angular size of a full moon. In it, the giant galaxy's elongated yellowish core is dominated by the light from old, cool stars. Beyond the core, grand spiral arms are filled with young blue star clusters and speckled with pinkish star forming regions. An extended arm sweeps past smaller satellite galaxy NGC 6744A at the upper left. NGC 6744's galactic companion is reminiscent of the Milky Way's satellite galaxy the Large Magellanic Cloud.
Latest Space News: Boeing can recover from its Starliner troubles, but it can’t afford any other misfires
Link: https://www.space.com/space-exploration/human-spaceflight/boeing-can-recover-from-its-starliner-troubles-but-it-cant-afford-any-other-misfires
Summary: The partial failure of Starliner’s mission doesn’t help Boeing’s effort to bounce back from its problems. The company’s reputation has not been irreparably damaged, however. Boeing can recover and is taking the right initiatives to re-emphasise a safety culture – something that’s crucial to its business going forward.
Latest Space News: Boeing can recover from its Starliner troubles, but it can’t afford any other misfires
Link: https://www.space.com/space-exploration/human-spaceflight/boeing-can-recover-from-its-starliner-troubles-but-it-cant-afford-any-other-misfires
Summary: The partial failure of Starliner’s mission doesn’t help Boeing’s effort to bounce back from its problems. The company’s reputation has not been irreparably damaged, however. Boeing can recover and is taking the right initiatives to re-emphasise a safety culture – something that’s crucial to its business going forward.
NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day (2024-11-01): Spiral Galaxy NGC 6744
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2411/NGC6744_V2_8_sm1024.jpg
Big, beautiful spiral galaxy NGC 6744 is nearly 175,000 light-years across, larger than our own Milky Way. It lies some 30 million light-years distant in the southern constellation Pavo but appears as only a faint smudge in the eyepiece of a small telescope. We see the disk of the nearby island universe tilted towards our line of sight in this remarkably deep and detailed galaxy portrait, a telescopic image that spans an area about the angular size of a full moon. In it, the giant galaxy's elongated yellowish core is dominated by the light from old, cool stars. Beyond the core, grand spiral arms are filled with young blue star clusters and speckled with pinkish star forming regions. An extended arm sweeps past smaller satellite galaxy NGC 6744A at the upper left. NGC 6744's galactic companion is reminiscent of the Milky Way's satellite galaxy the Large Magellanic Cloud.
Latest Space News: Boeing can recover from its Starliner troubles, but it can’t afford any other misfires
Link: https://www.space.com/space-exploration/human-spaceflight/boeing-can-recover-from-its-starliner-troubles-but-it-cant-afford-any-other-misfires
Summary: The partial failure of Starliner’s mission doesn’t help Boeing’s effort to bounce back from its problems. The company’s reputation has not been irreparably damaged, however. Boeing can recover and is taking the right initiatives to re-emphasise a safety culture – something that’s crucial to its business going forward.
Latest Space News: Boeing can recover from its Starliner troubles, but it can’t afford any other misfires
Link: https://www.space.com/space-exploration/human-spaceflight/boeing-can-recover-from-its-starliner-troubles-but-it-cant-afford-any-other-misfires
Summary: The partial failure of Starliner’s mission doesn’t help Boeing’s effort to bounce back from its problems. The company’s reputation has not been irreparably damaged, however. Boeing can recover and is taking the right initiatives to re-emphasise a safety culture – something that’s crucial to its business going forward.
Latest Space News: Boeing can recover from its Starliner troubles, but it can’t afford any other misfires
Link: https://www.space.com/space-exploration/human-spaceflight/boeing-can-recover-from-its-starliner-troubles-but-it-cant-afford-any-other-misfires
Summary: The partial failure of Starliner’s mission doesn’t help Boeing’s effort to bounce back from its problems. The company’s reputation has not been irreparably damaged, however. Boeing can recover and is taking the right initiatives to re-emphasise a safety culture – something that’s crucial to its business going forward.
Latest Space News: Boeing can recover from its Starliner troubles, but it can’t afford any other misfires
Link: https://www.space.com/space-exploration/human-spaceflight/boeing-can-recover-from-its-starliner-troubles-but-it-cant-afford-any-other-misfires
Summary: The partial failure of Starliner’s mission doesn’t help Boeing’s effort to bounce back from its problems. The company’s reputation has not been irreparably damaged, however. Boeing can recover and is taking the right initiatives to re-emphasise a safety culture – something that’s crucial to its business going forward.
Latest Space News: Dark Wolf Nebula shows off a howling good view in awesome Halloween image (video)
Link: https://www.space.com/wolf-dark-nebula-halloween-2024
Summary: Halloween is here, and there is no better way to celebrate than with a blood-curdling image of the Dark Wolf Nebula looking like a cosmic werewolf poised to grab an unwitting victim.
Latest Space News: Fight space ghosts as an astronaut cat in spooky Halloween 2024 Google Doodle
Link: https://www.space.com/halloween-google-doodle-2024-astronaut-cat
Summary: Celebrate Halloween with a cosmic new Google Doodle, featuring an astronaut cat vanquishing creepy creatures across Earth's atmosphere.
Latest Space News: Happy Dark Matter Day! Meet the usual — and unusual — suspects in this cosmic mystery
Link: https://www.space.com/dark-matter-day-suspects-axions-black-holes
Summary: Dark matter makes up 85% of the stuff in the cosmos, but scientists have no idea what it is. On Dark Matter Day (Oct. 31), Space.com invites you to interrogate the suspects.
Latest Space News: Can 'failed stars' have planets? James Webb Space Telescopes offers clues
Link: https://www.space.com/james-webb-space-telescope-failed-star-brown-dwarf-planets
Summary: The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered brown dwarfs at the heart of planet-forming disks in the Orion nebula. The discovery could help reveal if these "failed stars" can have planets.
NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day (2024-10-31): Rigel and the Witch Head Nebula
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2410/Strega_apod_1024r.jpg
By starlight, this eerie visage shines in the dark with a crooked profile evoking its popular name, the Witch Head Nebula. In fact, this entrancing telescopic portrait gives the impression that a witch has fixed her gaze on Orion's bright supergiant star Rigel. More formally known as IC 2118, the Witch Head Nebula spans about 50 light-years and is composed of interstellar dust grains reflecting Rigel's starlight. The color of the Witch Head Nebula is caused not only by Rigel's intense blue light, but because the dust grains scatter blue light more efficiently than red. The same physical process causes Earth's daytime sky to appear blue, although the scatterers in Earth's atmosphere are molecules of nitrogen and oxygen. Rigel and this dusty cosmic crone are about 800 light-years away. You may still see a few witches in your neighborhood tonight though, so have a safe and Happy Halloween!
Latest Space News: Can 'failed stars' have planets? James Webb Space Telescopes offers clues
Link: https://www.space.com/james-webb-space-telescope-failed-star-brown-dwarf-planets
Summary: The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered brown dwarfs at the heart of planet-forming disks in the Orion nebula. The discovery could help reveal if these "failed stars" can have planets.
NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day (2024-10-30): NGC 7635: The Bubble Nebula
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2410/BubbleRed_Leader_960.jpg
What created this huge space bubble? Blown by the wind from a star, this tantalizing, head-like apparition is cataloged as NGC 7635, but known simply as the Bubble Nebula. The featured striking view utilizes a long exposure to reveal the intricate details of this cosmic bubble and its environment. Although it looks delicate, the 10 light-year diameter bubble offers evidence of violent processes at work. Seen here above and right of the Bubble's center, a bright hot star is embedded in the nebula's reflecting dust. A fierce stellar wind and intense radiation from the star, which likely has a mass 10 to 20 times that of the Sun, has blasted out the structure of glowing gas against denser material in a surrounding molecular cloud. The intriguing Bubble Nebula lies a mere 11,000 light-years away toward the boastful constellation Cassiopeia. Your Sky Surprise: What picture did APOD feature on your birthday? (post 1995)
NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day (2024-10-30): NGC 7635: The Bubble Nebula
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2410/BubbleRed_Leader_960.jpg
What created this huge space bubble? Blown by the wind from a star, this tantalizing, head-like apparition is cataloged as NGC 7635, but known simply as the Bubble Nebula. The featured striking view utilizes a long exposure to reveal the intricate details of this cosmic bubble and its environment. Although it looks delicate, the 10 light-year diameter bubble offers evidence of violent processes at work. Seen here above and right of the Bubble's center, a bright hot star is embedded in the nebula's reflecting dust. A fierce stellar wind and intense radiation from the star, which likely has a mass 10 to 20 times that of the Sun, has blasted out the structure of glowing gas against denser material in a surrounding molecular cloud. The intriguing Bubble Nebula lies a mere 11,000 light-years away toward the boastful constellation Cassiopeia. Your Sky Surprise: What picture did APOD feature on your birthday? (post 1995)
NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day (2024-10-30): NGC 7635: The Bubble Nebula
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2410/BubbleRed_Leader_960.jpg
What created this huge space bubble? Blown by the wind from a star, this tantalizing, head-like apparition is cataloged as NGC 7635, but known simply as the Bubble Nebula. The featured striking view utilizes a long exposure to reveal the intricate details of this cosmic bubble and its environment. Although it looks delicate, the 10 light-year diameter bubble offers evidence of violent processes at work. Seen here above and right of the Bubble's center, a bright hot star is embedded in the nebula's reflecting dust. A fierce stellar wind and intense radiation from the star, which likely has a mass 10 to 20 times that of the Sun, has blasted out the structure of glowing gas against denser material in a surrounding molecular cloud. The intriguing Bubble Nebula lies a mere 11,000 light-years away toward the boastful constellation Cassiopeia. Your Sky Surprise: What picture did APOD feature on your birthday? (post 1995)
Latest Space News: 'First tree on Mars:' Scientists measure greenhouse effect needed to terraform Red Planet
Link: https://www.space.com/first-tree-on-mars-attention-tarraformers
Summary: What is the amount of greenhouse warming required to heat up the cold climes of Mars enough so that trees can grow on the Red Planet?
Latest Space News: 'First tree on Mars:' Scientists measure greenhouse effect needed to terraform Red Planet
Link: https://www.space.com/first-tree-on-mars-attention-tarraformers
Summary: What is the amount of greenhouse warming required to heat up the cold climes of Mars enough so that trees can grow on the Red Planet?
Latest Space News: NASA's Artemis 2 moon mission: Live updates
Link: https://www.space.com/news/live/nasa-artemis-2-moon-mission-updates
Summary: NASA's Artemis 2 mission is returning astronauts to the moon for the first time since 1972. See live mission updates here.
Latest Space News: Who's in your commercial? Capital One ad stars (unnamed) astronaut
Link: https://www.space.com/astronaut-karen-nyberg-capital-one-commercial
Summary: A banker, an athlete and an astronaut walk onto a stage... No, that is not the setup for a joke, but rather the premise behind a new commercial starring a veteran NASA space traveler.
Latest Space News: 7 underrated horror films for Halloween — and their cosmic counterparts
Link: https://www.space.com/halloween-2024-cosmic-monsters-horror-movies
Summary: In time for Halloween, we present seven terrifying cosmic monsters — and to meet your thirst for scares, we've added must-watch horror movies to this witches brew.
Latest Space News: NASA chief says talks between Elon Musk, Vladimir Putin would be 'concerning'
Link: https://www.space.com/nasa-chief-bill-nelson-concerned-elon-musk-putin-talks
Summary: NASA Administrator Bill Nelson has expressed concerns over reports that SpaceX chief executive Elon Musk has been in regular contact with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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