Hubble Sees Summertime on Saturn
The Hubble Space Telescope has released a July 23 image of Saturn in its full summer glory.
Juno Takes First Images of Jovian Moon Ganymede’s North Pole
Previous missions hadn’t been able to see the poles of Ganymede, and these have been imaged for the first time by the JIRAM instrument aboard the Juno mission.
An Origin Story for a Family of Oddball Meteorites
Planetary scientists have been perplexed by one particular family of meteorites that comes in the coolly collected and melted and mixed varieties. Called the IIE meteorites, they all appear to come from the same parent object, but some of the meteorites are made of melted minerals while others are unmelted.
“Lost” World Rediscovery Is Step Toward Finding Habitable Planets
The Next Generation Transit Survey (NGTS) in Chile is starting to follow up on lost worlds and a new paper in The Astrophysical Journal Letters documents their first discovery NGTS-11b, a warm Saturn that orbits every 35 days.
First Image of a Multi-Planet System Around a Sun-like Star
The European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope and its SPHERE instrument has captured the first-ever image of multiple exoplanets orbiting a star.
Spectacular UV Flash May Explain How White Dwarfs Explode
In December 2019, the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) discovered a new supernova, SN2019yvg. In follow-up observations, NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory spotted an ultraviolet flash such as has only been seen once before.
Magnetic Field of a Spiral Galaxy
Astronomers using the Very Large Array radio observatory in New Mexico have mapped out the powerful magnetic field in the edge-on galaxy NGC 4217.
SpaceX delivers South Korea’s first military satellite into on-target orbit
On July 20, 2020, at 9:30 PM (UTC) SpaceX launched the ANASIS-II for South Korea from SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
United Arab Emirates successfully sends its first mission toward Mars
On July 19 at 9:58 PM (UTC), a JAXA H-2A rocket launched the Emirates Mars Mission. This is the first interplanetary mission for the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The orbiter is expected to arrive sometime in February 2021 and will study climate and weather on Mars.
Minotaur rocket successfully deploys four NRO satellites in orbit
Four super-secret spy satellites were launched from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport aboard a Northrop Grumman Minotaur IV rocket on July 15, 2020, at 1:46 PM (UTC).
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