Posts Tagged ‘planet nine’
[NEWS] Five space science links: Neptunian Trojans, FarFarOut, Planet 9, black holes, M31N 2008-12a
- What is up with the unexpectedly colourful Neptunian Trojan asteroids? Scientific American reports.
- Universe Today notes the very recent discovery of outer system body FarFarOut, 140 astronomical units away.
- Universe Today looks at the latest evidence for the existence of Planet Nine, in the twisted orbits of outer solar system bodies.
- Daily Galaxy notes that a hundred million black holes, almost all of them unknown to us, likely exist in the Milky Way Galaxy.
- Evan Gough at Universe Today reports on the mysterious recurring nova M31N 2008-12a, exploding once a year off in the Andromeda Galaxy.
[NEWS] Five space science links: Moon, Mars, Planet Nine, ‘Oumuamua, dark matter
- This Universe Today article takes a look at the idea of building basic installations, the most ambitious like the McMurdo Station in Antarctica, on the Moon.
- Scientific American reports that NASA is preparing to declare the mission of the Mars Opportunity rover, active for 15 years, at an end.
- Popular Science looks at the likely procedures by which Planet Nine, if found, would be given a name.
- Universe Today considers the possibility that ‘Oumuamua might be part of the debris cloud of a disintegrated interstellar comet.
- Scientific American notes the important discovery of two nearby galaxies apparently lacking in dark matter.
[NEWS] Five space science links: Planet Nine, Ultima Thule, Orion Nebula, Sag A*, SN 1987A
- This article by Shannon Stirone at Longreads takes a look at the long, lonely search for Planet Nine from the top of Mauna Kea.
- Universe Today shares a high-resolution photograph of Ultima Thule.
- Universe Today explains how the new crop of young stars in the Orion Nebula disrupt the formation of other stellar bodies.
- Phys.org shares this amazing photograph of Sagittarius A* at the heart of our galaxy.
- The shockwaves from Supernova 1987A in the Large Magellanic Cloud, Universe Today notes, are still crashing into the neighbouring interstellar medium, revealing more secrets to astronomers.
[NEWS] Six D-Brief links: Sagittarius A*, GRBs, Saturn, Planet Nine, Earth, starlight
- Are the radio jets of Sagittarius A* at the heart of our galaxy pointed directly at Earth? D-Brief reports reports.
- Astronomers might finally have established a firm connection between supernovas and gamma-ray bursts. D-Brief reports reports.
- The length of a day on Saturn has finally been established, at just over 10 hours and 33 minutes. D-Brief reports reports.
- The supposed signature of Planet Nine might be a creation not of a ninth planet but rather by a thick distant belt of objects. D-Brief reports reports.
- Did the collision of protoplanet Theia with the young Earth seen the subsequent world with the materials needed for life? D-Brief reports reports.
- The very idea of an encyclopedia of galactic starlight is profoundly poetic, to say nothing of its scientific uses. D-Brief reports reports.
[NEWS] Five space science links: Moon, Mars, Planet Nine, white dwarfs, black holes
- Quanta Magazine looks at the latest theories seeking to explain the origins of the Moon. (At the very least, the collision that did form the Moon may have ben much more violent than originally thought.)
- Mars may be smaller than Venus and Earth because, in the early solar system, much mass was directed away from its orbit by the gas and ice giants. Universe Today reports.
- Gizmodo notes the discovery of another Kuiper Belt object with a strange orbit pointing to the possibility of Planet Nine.
- The Gaia satellite has turned up evidence for nearly fourteen thousand white dwarfs within 100 parsecs of our sun, a huge increase in numbers. Universe Today reports.
- The work and the thinking that went into proving the idea of thousands of black holes in close orbit of Sagittarius A* at the heart of our galaxy is impressive. Universe Today reports.