Dying Stars – Planetary Nebula
ALMA image of the old star system W43A. The high-velocity bipolar jets ejected from the central aged star are seen in blue, low-velocity outflow is shown in green, and dusty clouds entrained by the jets are shown in orange. credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), Tafoya et al....
Dying Stars – Supernova
By examining the abundance of the element manganese, a group of astronomers has revised our best estimates for the processes behind supernovae of type Ia. credit: R. Hurt/Caltech-JPL, Composition: MPIA graphics department. In a new paper in Astronomy &...
Blazar pointed right
This artist’s concept shows a “feeding,” or active, supermassive black hole with a jet streaming outward at nearly the speed of light. Such active black holes are often found at the hearts of elliptical galaxies. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech The most scientifically...
DARPA Launch Challenge: ASTRA 1 of 3
ASTRA Space logo On the second of March, Astra attempted to launch “One of Three” for the DARPA Launch Challenge. This would have been the first orbital launch for Astra, but the count was stopped at T-minus fifty-three seconds due to unexpected signals being...
Carnival of Space #653
Check out this week’s sampling of space-related stories from our colleagues and friends!
Year to Date Rocket Launch Statistics 2020/4/3
I keep track of orbital launches by where they launched from. Here’s that breakdown: Here’s a running tally of a few spaceflight statistics for the year: Toilets burned up: 1Total new satellites in orbit: 245Total satellites from launches: 231 Total launches:...
SpaceX Starship SN1 Explosion
SpaceX’s Starship SN1 imploded during testing on February 28. day-after picture from Space Padre Isle on Twitter.
Northrup Grumman MEV Docking with IS-901
Image: Artist’s impression of the MEV-1 attached to the apogee motor of IS-901. Credit: Northrop Grumman For the first time ever, two satellites in a geosynchronous graveyard orbit have docked with one another. On Tuesday February 25th at 0215 EST / 0715 GMT, the...
Cotton-Candy Super Puffs
Artist’s conception of a ringed planet transiting in front of its host star by Robin Dienel and courtesy of the Carnegie Institution for Science. Astronomers have announced, that “‘cotton-candy-like’ exoplanets called super-puffs may actually have rings, according to...
The Milky Way is warped
The structure of our galaxy, the Milky Way . Image Credit: ESA A team using Gaia data to study the structure of our Milky Way galaxy has published a new paper in the journal Nature Astronomy, describing the warp of our galaxy and attributing it to a collision. Now, in...
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