astronomy

Webb Discovers Methane, Carbon Dioxide in Atmosphere of K2-18 b - NASA (www.nasa.gov)

This is about as close as we can get for carbon-based life habitable planet. 2.6 times the radius of Earth and mostly ocean, what sort of marine lives swim in there? Give me chills if they exist.

Astronomers seek global ban on space advertising (spacenews.com)

Nasa unveils quiet supersonic aircraft in effort to revive commercial flights (www.theguardian.com)

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'It's extremely worrisome.' NASA's James Webb Space Telescope faces potential 20% budget cut just 4 years after launch (www.space.com) angielski

A Nearby Star Is Expected to Go Nova This Year. Here's How You Can See It. (www.sciencealert.com) angielski

3 tiny new moons found around Uranus and Neptune — and one is exceptionally tiny (www.space.com) angielski

The amazing helicopter on Mars, Ingenuity, will fly no more (arstechnica.com) angielski

Scientists found a primordial galaxy with a bunch of gas and no stars (bgr.com) angielski

Caltech Researchers Find Evidence of a Real Ninth Planet (astrobiology.nasa.gov) angielski

Caltech researchers have found evidence of a giant planet tracing a bizarre, highly elongated orbit in the outer solar system. The object, which the researchers have nicknamed Planet Nine, has a mass about 10 times that of Earth and orbits about 20 times farther from the sun on average than does Neptune (which orbits the sun at...

James Webb telescope spots potential conditions for life on 2 dwarf planets beyond Neptune (www.livescience.com) angielski

Most Planets in the Cosmos Probably Don’t Orbit Stars (www.scientificamerican.com)

Check Out the Highest-Resolution Images Ever Captured of the Sun's Entire Surface (www.smithsonianmag.com) angielski

Zoomable images: esa.int/…/New_full_Sun_views_show_sunspots_fields…

Voyager 1 is fully back online months after it stopped making sense. (www.theverge.com) angielski

I still can’t believe how this one comes back again and again. One of the greatest feat of humanity.

Northern lights predicted in US and UK on Monday night in wake of solar storms (www.theguardian.com) angielski

The US government seems serious about developing a lunar economy (arstechnica.com) angielski

Solar eclipse on Mars! Perseverance rover sees Martian moon Phobos cross the sun in epic video (www.space.com) angielski

Japan’s moon landing picture might be the space photo of the decade (mashable.com)

Japan's precision moon lander has hit its target, but it appears to be upside-down (phys.org) angielski

Saturn has 128 new moons – more than the rest of the planets combined (www.newscientist.com) angielski

The IAC confirms the existence of a Super-earth in the habitable zone of a Sun-like Star (www.iac.es)

Tiny glass beads suggest the moon had active volcanoes when dinosaurs roamed Earth (apnews.com) angielski

Cosmic cleaners: the scientists scouring English cathedral roofs for space dust (www.theguardian.com) angielski

Big, doomed satellite seen from space as it tumbles towards a fiery reentry on Feb. 21 (photos) (www.space.com) angielski

First Space Force guardian to be launched into space this summer (www.defenseone.com) angielski

'Old smokers': Strange new type of star discovered in Milky Way (phys.org)