This Week in Rocket History: GEOTAIL and Goddard 3
This week in rocket history, we look back on the collaborative GEOTAIL mission to study Earth’s magnetic field and on Goddard’s third rocket flight test.
Search Finds Ten Potential Pulsar-Orbiting Planets
A group of astronomers conducted the largest search yet for exoplanets orbiting pulsars and found ten potential detections, including two promising ones.
All the Rocks (Bennu)
Three research papers on Bennu have recently been published as scientists analyze all the data collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission in space.
All the Rockets
While we were covering JWST, five rocket launches (and one rocket test oopsy) happened, from SpaceX, Russia, China, Rocket Lab, and Arianespace.
Why We Should Rename JWST
Our excitement over the JWST image release is tempered by the controversy surrounding the selection off James Webb as the name of the telescope.
JWST Images Released July 11/12, 2022
Almost 200 days after finally launching, the JWST mission team released the first fully processed science images acquired by this giant telescope.
Solar System Rotation Rate Due to Subatomic Interactions
Researchers performed massive computer simulations to examine the interactions in an accretion disk and found slowing due to collisions between particles.
Review: “For All Mankind”, S3E2
Erik Madaus reviews the second episode of season three of “For All Mankind”, available on Apple TV+.
The Moon is not as Porous as Previously Thought
In a new study of 77 lunar craters, scientists have detailed out the porosity of the Moon’s crust and found that massive impacts happened early on.
The Physics of Raining Sand
A new paper presents an analysis of 113 red and brown dwarf stars that discovered silicate clouds in the cool brown dwarfs.
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