Don’t panic, but an asteroid has a 1.9% chance of hitting Earth in 2032 (arstechnica.com) angielski
New dwarf planet spotted at the edge of the solar system (www.newscientist.com)
First ever photo of the curvature of the Earth : December 30, 1930 angielski
On Dec. 30, 1930, the first-ever photo of the Earth’s curvature was taken by Lieutenant Colonel Albert William Stevens, who was an officer in the U.S. Army Air Corps and an aerial photographer....
Giant Mirrors in Space Could Bring Sunlight After Dark, One Startup Says—and Astronomers Are Concerned (www.smithsonianmag.com)
Aliens Probably Exist - But They’re Staying Silent For a Reason (www.popularmechanics.com)
We just live too far apart.
Confirmed at Last: Barnard's Star Hosts Four Tiny Planets (aasnova.org) angielski
Io in True Color angielski
I made a custom TRMNL plugin to tell me whether it’s worth taking the telescope up!
Beginner telescope suggestions angielski
I’m planning to go to a rural spot that has a Bortle class 3 night sky around Southern California. Can anyone recommend a beginner friendly telescope with decent magnification for around $200? I’m not interested in using an accompanying smart phone app to go with it either. I’d like to see nebulae and galaxies the most....
In a last-minute decision, White House decides not to terminate NASA employees (arstechnica.com) angielski
"Big surprise": astronomers find planet in perpendicular orbit around pair of stars (www.eso.org)
Scientists discover potentially habitable planet roughly 146 light-years from Earth, 4 times closer than the next best planet in a habitable zone; surface temperature may be below -94F degrees (www.theguardian.com) angielski
Half of the universe's hydrogen gas, long unaccounted for, has been found (phys.org)
Webb telescope just snapped direct image of worlds many light-years away (mashable.com) angielski
'It's extremely worrisome.' NASA's James Webb Space Telescope faces potential 20% budget cut just 4 years after launch (www.space.com) angielski
Scientists hail ‘strongest evidence’ so far for life beyond our solar system (www.theguardian.com)
NASA Ordered to Remove Anything About 'Women in Leadership' From Its Websites: Report (gizmodo.com) angielski
Boeing's troubled capsule won't carry astronauts on next space station flight (phys.org) angielski
Boeing and NASA have agreed to keep astronauts off the company’s next Starliner flight and instead perform a trial run with cargo to prove its safety....
This Earth-sized Exoplanet is On a Death Spiral (www.universetoday.com) angielski
Our circumstances here on the wondrous, life-supporting Earth can give us a false understanding of what the Universe is really like. But our blue-skied, temperate planet is the extreme exception when it comes to other worlds. There’s nothing remotely like Earth in our Solar System, and exoplanet studies reinforce that idea....
Scientists look to black holes to know exactly where we are in the Universe. But phones and Wi-Fi are blocking the view (phys.org) angielski
The scientists who precisely measure the position of Earth are in a bit of trouble. Their measurements are essential for the satellites we use for navigation, communication and Earth observation every day....
Milky Way may not be destroyed in galactic smash-up after all (www.rfi.fr)
Paris (AFP) – The Milky Way may not have a catastrophic collision with another huge galaxy as has been predicted, computer simulations revealed Monday, giving our home galaxy a coin-flip chance of avoiding destruction....
[Meta] Comm Clarification
So I’ve been posting space related stuff here for a while over !space to distribute content more, within the last few weeks though it was closed and now directs posting to this other mander space comm !space which is titled “Space & Astronomy”...
Most Planets in the Cosmos Probably Don’t Orbit Stars (www.scientificamerican.com)
Phobos: Doomed Moon of Mars angielski
This moon is doomed. Mars, the red planet named for the Roman god of war, has two tiny moons, Phobos and Deimos, whose names are derived from the Greek for Fear and Panic. These Martian moons may well be captured asteroids originating in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter or perhaps from even more distant reaches of...
NASA completes Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope construction (phys.org) angielski
NASA’s next big eye on the cosmos is now fully assembled. On Nov. 25, technicians joined the inner and outer portions of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope in the largest clean room at the agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland....