Powerful GRB is Actually Giant Flare From Magnetar in Nearby Galaxy

Powerful GRB is Actually Giant Flare From Magnetar in Nearby Galaxy

Jan 15, 2021 | AAS, Asteroids, Daily Space, Earth, Jupiter, Mars, Moon, Neutron Stars / Pulsars, Observatories, Physics, Spacecraft

Multiple international teams determine that a 2020 gamma-ray burst was actually a giant flare from a magnetar and that flare originated from a nearby galaxy. Plus, the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument is ready for a new survey, NASA extends two planetary missions, and What’s Up in the night sky this next week.

Bumper Crop of Gravitational Wave Events Detected!

Bumper Crop of Gravitational Wave Events Detected!

Nov 1, 2020 | AAS, Asteroids, Bennu Mapper, Cosmology, Daily Space, Exoplanets, JAXA, Jupiter, Neptune, Neutron Stars / Pulsars, OSIRIS-REx, Our Solar System, Saturn, Supermassive Black Holes, Titan, Uranus

Today’s top story brings us 39 new gravitational wave detections of black holes and neutron stars, courtesy of the LIGO and VIRGO detectors. Also, it’s Titan’s turn for interesting molecules in the atmosphere, and researchers examined impact craters to see what might lie beneath Titan’s surface. Plus, Hayabusa2’s impact on Ryugu and an updated origin story for Jupiter and Saturn.

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NASA’s SOFIA telescope reports water found in sunlit crater on Moon

NASA’s SOFIA telescope reports water found in sunlit crater on Moon

Oct 29, 2020 | AAS, Artemis, Asteroids, Bennu Mapper, Cosmology, Daily Space, Galaxies, KBOs, Moon, OSIRIS-REx, Our Solar System, Star Forming Region

In our new format, we bring you a mix of stories. First, an update on the Bennu sampling situation. Next, the top stories, where NASA has reported that the SOFIA airborne telescope found water in a sunlit crater on the Moon, and another team has found water ice reservoirs. Plus, the search for Planet Nine, studying asteroid Psyche 16, and the magnetic fields at a jellyfish galaxy.

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