For many years I followed this website: https://www.space.com/.
But since I stopped for a couple of months I don't follow this site. Pity...
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For many years I followed this website: https://www.space.com/.
But since I stopped for a couple of months I don't follow this site. Pity...
I usually choose the most interesting news from any of these sites. On first sight, all these sites seem to base the news on research. I mean they are not sensationalistic.
I think you can subscribe for their newsletter again, any time you want.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dreamwoven
Yes, I know. I must go back to following space.com, it really is an excellent site.
A bit of plutonian geography. You never know when you will need it ;):
Pluto features given first official names
Date:
September 7, 2017
Source:
International Astronomical Union
Summary:
The Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature of the International Astronomical Union has officially approved the naming of 14 features on the surface of Pluto. These are the first geological features on the planet to be named following the close flyby by the New Horizons spacecraft in July 2015.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/release...0907112411.htm
I rather like the planet Pluto, the outermost planet (as far as we know).
http://earthsky.org/space/nasa-cassi...mission-legacy
Some of the lessons of the hugely successful Saturn Mission!
I read it. Discovering a planet with ideal life conditions seems to have become a scientific obssession.
Uranus is a dangerous place for its moons
In a few million years, things are going to get ugly.
By Alison Klesman | Published: Monday, September 11, 2017
"Discovered in 1781, Uranus is an ice giant orbiting our Sun once every 84 Earth years. This mysterious world, which appears as just a tiny dot in most amateur telescopes, not only possesses a system of thin, faint rings, but also 27 moons (by our current count). However, at least one of those things is destined to change: new measurements indicate at least two likely collisions between four of the planet’s moons millions of years in the future."
http://www.astronomy.com/news/2017/0...olliding-moons
We need to be reminded how little we know about our own solar system. Uranus is largely unexplored and has many moons of its own. See http://earthsky.org/space/nasa-cassi...mission-legacy
The same applies to Neptune...
I think all these planets are still mostly unexplored. The scientists have to perfectionate their tools and instruments first. A lot of expertise and money is spent on it.
The more I think of it, the more odd it is that there are no plans that I know of to send probes to these ice giants and their moons. Puzzling...
The last visit was 40 years ago with the two Voyager flybys. They are still in the sun's field of gravity but eventually will pull clear of the sun and continue outward. Voyager 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_1
Voyager 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_2
These both carried messages to any humans who might be out there.
Jupiter’s aurora presents a powerful mystery
"Jupiter has the most powerful aurora in the solar system, so the team was not surprised that electric potentials play a role in their generation. What’s puzzling the researchers, Mauk said, is that despite the magnitudes of these potentials at Jupiter, they are observed only sometimes and are not the source of the most intense auroras, as they are at Earth."
https://astronomynow.com/2017/09/09/...erful-mystery/