A commercial airliner flies Northwest across Lake Michigan in front of the “Full Buck” supermoon, the first of four supermoons in 2023, July 3, 2023, in Chicago. The cosmos is…
Category: Planetary Science
Astronomers shed new light on formation of mysterious fast radio bursts
The Chinese Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST). Credit: Bojun Wang, Jinchen Jiang & Qisheng Cui More than 15 years after the discovery of fast radio bursts (FRBs)—millisecond-long, deep-space cosmic…
Need to image an asteroid close up? There’s an AMIGO for that
Artist’s depiction of a fully inflated AMIGO. Credit: Schwatz et al. There are so many asteroids. Just in our own backyard, we’ve found over 30,000 Near Earth asteroids. Exploring them…
A gamma ray burst lasted so long it triggered a satellite twice
An artist’s depiction of a gamma-ray burst’s relativistic jet full of very-high-energy photons breaking out of a collapsing star. Credit: DESY, Science Communication Lab Gamma ray bursts (GRBs) are the…
Orbiting astronaut oversees robot team on Earth
The Rollin’ Justin robot in DLR’s planetary surface test environment at the Agency’s German Space Operations Center in Operpfaffenhofen near Munich, used for the Surface Avatar test on 24 July…
Was Olympus Mons once a giant volcanic island?
Olympus Mons: a volcanic island in the middle of a vanished Martian ocean. Credit: A.Hildenbrand/Geops/CNRS (produced from MOLA public data) Imagine a volcanic island about the size of France and…
A mysterious interstellar radio signal has been blinking on and off every 22 minutes for more than 30 years
The International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research, Author provided Last year, we made an intriguing discovery—a radio signal in space that switched on and off every 18 minutes. Astronomers expect…
Hubble images a starstruck galaxy
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Dalcanton, A. Filippenko The irregular galaxy Arp 263 lurks in the background of this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, but the view is…
