American Astronomical Society
29 Jul 2021, 16:06 UTC
W. M. Keck Observatory Planet Imager and Characterizer Instrument Delivers First Science, Capturing Spin Measurements of HR 8799 Exoplanets
Lengths of Super-Jupiters’ Days Measured for the First Time
29 Jul 2021, 16:06 UTC
W. M. Keck Observatory Planet Imager and Characterizer Instrument Delivers First Science, Capturing Spin Measurements of HR 8799 Exoplanets
American Astronomical Society
29 Jul 2021, 14:30 UTC
ALMA data proves that ram pressure stripping doesn’t spell an immediate end for galaxies.
Scientists Observe Gas Re-Accretion in Dying Galaxies for the First Time
29 Jul 2021, 14:30 UTC
ALMA data proves that ram pressure stripping doesn’t spell an immediate end for galaxies.
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features
29 Jul 2021, 14:00 UTC
Three studies published in the past month have cast doubt on the premise of subsurface lakes below the Martian south pole.
Clays, Not Water, Are Likely Source of Mars ‘Lakes’
29 Jul 2021, 14:00 UTC
Three studies published in the past month have cast doubt on the premise of subsurface lakes below the Martian south pole.
American Astronomical Society
28 Jul 2021, 01:10 UTC
An international team of astrophysicists has discovered the presence of transverse rotation in three dwarf spheroidal galaxies, a very faint type of galaxies and difficult to observe, which are orbiting round the Milky Way; this helps to trace their evolutionary history.
Three Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies Are Found to Rotate
28 Jul 2021, 01:10 UTC
An international team of astrophysicists has discovered the presence of transverse rotation in three dwarf spheroidal galaxies, a very faint type of galaxies and difficult to observe, which are orbiting round the Milky Way; this helps to trace their evolutionary history.
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
26 Jul 2021, 15:00 UTC
For the first time, astronomers have uncovered evidence of water vapor in the atmosphere of Jupiter's moon Ganymede. This water vapor forms when ice from the moon's surface sublimates -- that is, turns from solid to gas.
Hubble Finds First Evidence of Water Vapor at Jupiter’s Moon Ganymede
26 Jul 2021, 15:00 UTC
For the first time, astronomers have uncovered evidence of water vapor in the atmosphere of Jupiter's moon Ganymede. This water vapor forms when ice from the moon's surface sublimates -- that is, turns from solid to gas.
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Earthly Rocks Point Way to Water Hidden on Mars
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Small Force, Big Effect: How the Planets Could Influence the Sun
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DIVSS Students in Focus: Aryanna Schiebelbein
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National Intern Day
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Lengths of Super-Jupiters’ Days Measured for the First Time
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Collisions of Light Produce Matter/Antimatter from Pure Energy
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Water as a Metal, Like Deep Inside Giant Planets, Detected in a Lab
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'The Invisible Network' Podcast - 2021 Interns
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Blogs
The Planetary Society Blog
30 Jul 2021, 14:30 UTC
This week marked the 50th anniversary of NASA’s Apollo 15 mission to the Moon, which launched on July 26, 1971 and landed on July 30. This photo shows mission commander David Scott driving the Lunar Roving Vehicle, the first of three “Moon buggies” deployed on Apollo missions. These vehicles allowed Apollo astronauts to extend the range of their exploration and sample collection. It’s probably fair to say that driving them was a whole lot of fun, too.
We Love to Buggy
30 Jul 2021, 14:30 UTC
This week marked the 50th anniversary of NASA’s Apollo 15 mission to the Moon, which launched on July 26, 1971 and landed on July 30. This photo shows mission commander David Scott driving the Lunar Roving Vehicle, the first of three “Moon buggies” deployed on Apollo missions. These vehicles allowed Apollo astronauts to extend the range of their exploration and sample collection. It’s probably fair to say that driving them was a whole lot of fun, too.
Universe Today
29 Jul 2021, 21:07 UTC
Thanks to research performed by the EHT Collaboration team during a six-hour observation period in 2017, astronomers are now being treated to images of the core region of Centaurus A and the radio jet emanating from it.
The Event Horizon Telescope Zooms in on Another Supermassive Black Hole
29 Jul 2021, 21:07 UTC
Thanks to research performed by the EHT Collaboration team during a six-hour observation period in 2017, astronomers are now being treated to images of the core region of Centaurus A and the radio jet emanating from it.
Centauri Dreams
29 Jul 2021, 15:58 UTC
Hubble observations from the past two decades have been recently re-examined as a way of investigating what is happening in the tenuous atmosphere of Ganymede, the largest moon in the Solar System. It was in 1998 that the telescope’s Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph took the first images of Ganymede at ultraviolet wavelengths, showing auroral bands — ribbons of electrified gas — that reinforced earlier evidence that the moon had a weak magnetic field. Now we have news of sublimated water vapor within the atmosphere, an earlier prediction now verified.
Sublimation Producing Water Vapor on Ganymede
29 Jul 2021, 15:58 UTC
Hubble observations from the past two decades have been recently re-examined as a way of investigating what is happening in the tenuous atmosphere of Ganymede, the largest moon in the Solar System. It was in 1998 that the telescope’s Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph took the first images of Ganymede at ultraviolet wavelengths, showing auroral bands — ribbons of electrified gas — that reinforced earlier evidence that the moon had a weak magnetic field. Now we have news of sublimated water vapor within the atmosphere, an earlier prediction now verified.
Scientific American
29 Jul 2021, 13:30 UTC
A clip from The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson in 1978 made the social media rounds in mid-July. The guest that episode—astronomer and science educator Carl Sagan—offered astute criticisms of the then recently released Star Wars film for its myopic (and whitewashed) imagining of how organisms from other galaxies might look. In this collection, reporter Leonard David examines the government report published in June that surveys our evidence for extraterrestrial life so far (see “Experts Weigh in on Pentagon UFO Report”), and two of our opinion writers contemplate some specific circumstances for alien contact.
The Human Framework for Alien Life
29 Jul 2021, 13:30 UTC
A clip from The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson in 1978 made the social media rounds in mid-July. The guest that episode—astronomer and science educator Carl Sagan—offered astute criticisms of the then recently released Star Wars film for its myopic (and whitewashed) imagining of how organisms from other galaxies might look. In this collection, reporter Leonard David examines the government report published in June that surveys our evidence for extraterrestrial life so far (see “Experts Weigh in on Pentagon UFO Report”), and two of our opinion writers contemplate some specific circumstances for alien contact.
Universe Today
29 Jul 2021, 12:52 UTC
Dark matter remains one of the greatest mysteries in science. Despite decades of astronomical evidence for its existence, no one has yet been able to find any sign of it closer to home. There have been dozens of efforts to do so, and one of the most prominent just hit a milestone – the release and analysis of 8 years of data. The IceCube Neutrino Observatory will soon be releasing results from those 8 years, but for now let’s dive in to what exactly they are looking for.
Searching for Dark Matter Inside the Earth
29 Jul 2021, 12:52 UTC
Dark matter remains one of the greatest mysteries in science. Despite decades of astronomical evidence for its existence, no one has yet been able to find any sign of it closer to home. There have been dozens of efforts to do so, and one of the most prominent just hit a milestone – the release and analysis of 8 years of data. The IceCube Neutrino Observatory will soon be releasing results from those 8 years, but for now let’s dive in to what exactly they are looking for.
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