AvatarLarry Mudrie Watch as the James Webb telescope unfolds its 18 gold-plated hex mirrors SYFY WIRE - Phil Plait The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will be a revolution in astronomy. It sports a whopping 6.5-meter wide mirror, the largest that will ever have …
AvatarLarry MudrieScience No star, no problem: Radioactivity could make otherwise frozen planets habitable sciencemag.org - Katherine Kornei Not too close, but not too far. That’s long been the rule describing how distant a planet should be from its star in order to sustain life. But a new …
AvatarLarry MudrieNatural History More Evidence that Pluto Might Have a Subsurface Ocean smithsonianmag.com - Theresa Machemer When NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft sailed past Pluto in 2015, it captured an image of the dwarf planet’s heart-shaped geography. But while it was …
AvatarLarry MudrieSpace Scientists Witness the Death of a Solar System, and the Birth of Necroplanetology Popular Mechanics - By Jennifer Leman570 light years away, a white dwarf devours its planetary children and creates a whole new field of science in its wake. Five years ago, astronomers caught a lone white dwarf star, 570 light-years away
AvatarLarry MudrieJames Webb Space Telescope Watch NASA's James Webb Space Telescope unfold its golden mirror for the 1st time (video) space.com - Chelsea Gohd NASA's next great observatory, the James Webb Space Telescope, has fully deployed its primary mirror for the first time, marking another milestone on …
AvatarLarry MudrieJames Webb Space Telescope James Webb Telescope Can Do 'Time Travel' Back 13.5 Billion Years nationalinterest.org - Ethen Kim Lieser In less than a year, the James Webb Space Telescope (Webb for short) will be launched into space in an effort to give humankind the best …
AvatarLarry MudrieMeteorites Meteorites reveal that Martian water came from different sources CNN - By Ashley Strickland, CNN(CNN) — One of the biggest mysteries in piecing together the story of Mars' past is a key question: Where did the water come from? Researchers may have found a large clue in tiny slices from Martian that
AvatarLarry MudrieVoyager 2 Uranus is leaking gas bgr.com - Mike Wehner • NASA’s Voyager 2 probe flew through a blob of charged gas called a plasmoid decades ago, and scientists only just now realized it.• The blob could …
AvatarLarry MudrieSpace Exploration Meet The Stolen Russian Space Shuttle that Flew Only Once nationalinterest.org - Caleb Larson The Soviet Union wanted their own space shuttle — and eventually built something eerily reminiscent of NASA’s space shuttle. Its performance was …
AvatarLarry MudrieGeek Scientists Find a Superconductor in Bits of Meteorite Gizmodo - Ryan F. Mandelbaum Scientists have detected trace amounts of superconducting material inside one of the world’s largest meteorites, according to a new …
AvatarLarry MudrieScience Remember When Japan Blasted an Asteroid? Here’s What We Learned The New York Times - Kenneth ChangIn April last year, a Japanese spacecraft launched a strike from above on an asteroid. Japan’s space agency was not declaring war. The bombardment was part of the work of Hayabusa2, a robotic space probe
AvatarLarry MudrieAstronomy We All Live In A Croissant-Shaped Giant Bubble, Say Astronomers Forbes - Jamie CarterPhysicists have revealed a refined new model of the heliosphere—the vast region around the Sun extending more than twice as far as Pluto—that depicts it as a crescent-shaped magnetic force-field resembling
AvatarLarry MudrieScience Scientists fired a copper cannonball into an asteroid — here's what happened next Inverse - Sofia Quaglia What happens when you fire a cannonball at an asteroid? Thanks to a wild new study published Thursday in the journal Science, we now know the …
AvatarLarry MudrieSpace Weird! Mercury's scorching temps may actually lead to ice. space.com - Elizabeth Howell Could Mercury's close orbit around the sun help the planet generate ice? It sounds like a paradox, but new analysis of the planet's surface chemistry …
AvatarLarry MudrieGear & Gadgets At long last, NASA’s probe finally digs in on Mars Popular Science - Charlie WoodNASA unsticks its Martian digging probe by whacking it with a shovel. Every day, the InSight lander’s suite of instruments sends back data proving that the Red Planet isn’t really dead. Marsquakes rumble
AvatarLarry MudrieScience A New Map of the Milky Way scientificamerican.com - Mark J. Reid,Xing-Wu Zheng Hundreds of years ago explorers sailed across oceans and traversed uncharted continents to map Earth, and in the past half a century space probes …
AvatarLarry MudrieplayScience Mercury may paradoxically use intense heat to make huge amounts of ice newatlas.com - By Michael Irving Despite being the closest planet to the Sun, Mercury is home to a surprising amount of ice. Now, researchers at Georgia Tech have put forward an …
AvatarLarry MudrieSpace There's a New Hypothesis For How Uranus Ended Up Tipped on Its Side ScienceAlert - Michelle Starr Uranus is quite the individual. Most of the planets in our Solar System have their poles more or less oriented in the same direction. And most of …
AvatarLarry MudrieVery Large Telescope Astronomers discovered a giant planet where it rains iron CNET - Jackson Ryan *Extremely metal guitar riff plays*
AvatarLarry MudrieUK News The inferno planet where it 'rains metal' bbc.co.uk - Jonathan Amos Astronomers have observed a distant planet where it probably rains iron.
AvatarLarry MudrieScience Researchers find new minor planets beyond Neptune phys.org - University of Pennsylvania Using data from the Dark Energy Survey (DES), researchers have found more than 300 trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs), minor planets located in the far …
AvatarLarry MudrieSpacecraft NASA’s Europa Clipper—a mission to a potentially habitable ocean world nature.com - Samuel M. Howell, Robert T. Pappalardo Jupiter’s satellite Europa almost certainly hides a global saltwater ocean beneath its icy surface. Chemistry at the ice surface and ocean-rock …
AvatarLarry MudrieThe Future International Space Station system that turns astronaut pee into drinking water getting 'much appreciated' boost CNET - Amanda Kooser Yes, peelease, NASA.
AvatarLarry MudrieExoplanets This gas-giant exoplanet has water-rich clouds. Here's why it thrills astronomers. space.com - Nola Taylor Redd Three teams of astronomers have been fascinated by an alien world known as K2-18b. But what's all the fuss about? In September, two teams announced …
AvatarLarry MudrieMagnetism Magnetic Fields Around NASA's Mars Lander Are 10 Times Stronger Than Scientists Expected ScienceAlert - MATT WILLIAMS When NASA's Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport (Insight) lander set down on Mars in November of 2018, it …
AvatarLarry MudrieplayTechnology NASA’s amazing space telescope will peer 13.5 billion years into the past Fast Company - Susan KarlinAfter nearly a quarter-century and several delays, the $9.6 billion James Webb Space Telescope is in the home stretch for a 2021 launch. It’s a sight out of a science-fiction novel—a soaring tower of gold
AvatarLarry MudrieBusiness Cosmos:Possible Worlds Instills Wonder And Sparks The Imagination Forbes - Tony BradleyThe epic series Cosmos returns to Nat Geo this week for its third season. The previous season was seen by more than 135 million people worldwide. Produced by Seth MacFarlane and Ann Druyan, and hosted
AvatarLarry MudrieSpace Exploration ISS Gets a New Research Platform, Bartolomeo | Digital Trends Digital Trends - Georgina Torbet The International Space Station (ISS) will soon be receiving a new research platform, Bartolomeo, which will play host to both scientific and …
AvatarLarry MudrieBill Nye Scientist says we come from Mars, and NASA should bring back the evidence dailystar.co.uk - Michael MoranAudience Writer Bill Nye, probably America’s best-known scientist, is lobbying the US government to give extra funding to NASA for a very unusual reason. Nye wants to …
