Let’s dive into the news in space and astronomy, including Hubble, Chandra, and VIPER face cuts/cancellations, weird exoplanet orbits & more.
Aug 30th: NASA Money Mayhem May Murder Missions
EVSN Archive
Aug 23rd: Found: 1 Intermediate Mass Black Hole
Aug 16th: NASA Identifies Possible Lunar Mantle Rocks on Lunar Surface
Aug 9th: Supernovae & Galaxies Being Used to Solve Astrophysics’ Biggest Questions
Aug 2nd: Discovery of Twin Supernovae Could Open Up Dark Energy Experiments
SNFactory found that among about 50 supernovae, many had nearly identical spectra, paving the way of using supernovae to search dark energy.
Jul 26th: Strange Supernova Appears Cool Before Exploding
Researchers find that the “oddball supernova” of a curiously cool, yellow star was lacking the hydrogen content expected.
Jul 19th: Cosmic Billiards Leads to Inner Planetary Growth
The inner solar system was a wild and wooly place and the collisions that formed Earth and Venus were likely of the hit-and-run variety
Jul 12th: Saturn’s Rings & Magnetic Fields Help Understand Planet’s Interior
Studies from Cassini found that the magnetic fields & a wave in the rings provide insight into the core structure and composition of the gas giant.
Jul 5th: JWST Reveals Star Formation Details
Let’s take a fast-paced journey thru all that’s new in space and astronomy and look at how JWST reveal star formation in never-before-seen details.
Jun 28th: Planning To Go Back To The Moon
This week… there was a far too much news problem, the last flight of Virgin Galactic’s Unity suborbital spacecraft, the first crewed flight of Boeing’s Starliner capsule to the ISS, a more successful launch test of SpaceX’s massive starship, the successful landing, loading, and liftoff of Chang’e 6 at the Moon, and… the beginning of the end for the HST as it shifted into single gyro operations.