Study Describes Discovery of Close Binary Trans-Neptunian Object
I’m going to move further out into that solar system and look at a recently discovered binary trans-Neptunian object. And boy, is that a mouthful. No, I will not say it five times fast.
Titan’s Lakes Can Stratify Like Those on Earth
I have to give a mention to a story we missed from our home Planetary Science Institute (PSI) about Saturn’s moon Titan and its lakes.
New Insights into the Origin of Diamonds in Meteorites
On Earth, diamonds form deep underground, under immense pressure. And scientists thought the same was true for a particular type of meteorite – ureilites.
Venus Might Be Habitable Today, If Not for Jupiter
Venus had a runaway greenhouse effect that left it distinctly inhabitable for life as we know it. Perhaps, weirdly enough, Jupiter is to blame.
Green Light Unveils Presence of an Old and Metal-Poor Halo in a Giant Elliptical Galaxy
In a new study of the elliptical galaxy M105, researchers carefully mapped the population of objects – stars and planetary nebulae – and found that the planetary nebulae traced a diffuse population of metal-poor stars in the outer halo of the galaxy.
Astronomers Turn Up the Heavy Metal to Shed Light on Star Formation
Using new software that allows metallicity and dust content to vary over time, a team from Australia’s International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) has been able to reproduce 7,000 well-observed galaxies.
Stars and Planets Grow Up Together as Siblings
New images from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) show evidence of a dust ring with gaps circling IRS 63, a protostar less than 500,000 years old.
Russian Aerospace Forces successfully launches “Soyuz-2” rocket carrier from Plesetsk cosmodrome
On Monday, September 28th at 11:20 UTC, a Roscosmos Soyuz-2.1b was launched by Russian Aerospace Forces from Site Number 43 at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome.
China launches environmental monitoring satellites
On September 27th at 03:23 UTC, China launched two environmental observation satellites onboard a Long March-4B.
First Direct Observation of Exoplanet Beta Pictoris c
The extraordinary GRAVITY instrument on the VLT has allowed the direct imaging of two planets orbiting around the star beta Pictoris.
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