KBOs | The Daily Space

Newly Discovered Solar System Object is ‘Farfarout’

Feb 17, 2021 | Astrobiology, Daily Space, ESA, Exoplanets, Galaxies, KBOs, Mars, Nebulae, Sky Watching

A newly found object nearly four times farther out from the Sun than Pluto now holds the record for the farthest observed in our solar system. Plus, forming super-Earths, finding potentially habitable planets, jellyfish galaxies, the Crab Nebula, and this week’s...

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

Media Listen on Libsyn Watch on Twitch Transcript IMAGE: Venus in Minecraft. CREDIT: Kieri-Aniis Last weekend we streamed for 36 straight hours during the CosmoQuest Hangout-a-thon 2020. Our goals were to build a scale model of the solar system in Minecraft...

Pluto gets a hot start; Breakthrough Listen makes a catalogue; TESS data yields a very young hot Jupiter

Jun 23, 2020 | Astrobiology, Daily Space, Exoplanets, KBOs, Pluto & Charon

Media Listen on Libsyn Watch on Twitch Transcript Today’s news seems to be designed by Blathers of Animal Crossing: we get one of everything, but only one and no more. For instance, let’s consider Pluto: we got one and only one flyby of one and only one...

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