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A simulation of a dying star shows how it could create gravitational waves

1 week ago from Sciencenews.org

Cocoons of debris around dying stars could shake ripples in spacetime unlike any astronomers have ever seen. “This is a potential source of gravitational waves that has never been investigated before,” astrophysicist Ore...

How I learned to 'walk on the moon' while flying at 30,000 feet on a stomach-churning airplane ride (video)

1 week ago from Space.com

Parabolic flights produce reduced gravity by following a wild trajectory of steep climbs and nerve-racking dives. The experience is out of this world, but for this reporter it had its...

A spacecraft engineer’s wisdom from Mars 2020 and a post-disaster island

1 week ago from PopSci

The Mars 2020 Perseverance rover being prepared for encapsulation in the a payload facility at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on June 18, 2020. NASA/KSC Excerpt from The Boy Who Reached for the Stars:...

Strange star holds 'holy grail' clues about unique supernova explosions in the early universe

1 week ago from Space.com

Astronomers have discovered the first chemical evidence of pair-instability supernovae from the universe's earliest massive stars in a strange star in the Milky Way’s galactic halo.

Researchers discover chemical evidence for pair-instability supernova from a very massive first star

1 week ago from Physorg

The first stars illuminated the universe during the Cosmic Dawn and put an end to the cosmic "dark ages" that followed the Big Bang. However, the distribution of their mass...

Una explosion espacial un tanto inusual: el Very Long Baseline Array revela complejidad de novas clasicas

1 week ago from Newswise - Scinews

Tras estudiar estrellas novas clasicas con el Long Baseline Array (VLBA) del Observatorio Radioastronomico Nacional de Estados Unidos, una estudiante de posgrado descubrio pistas de que estos objetos no son...

Not Your Average Space Explosion: Very Long Baseline Array Finds Classical Novae Are Anything But Simple

1 week ago from Newswise - Scinews

While studying classical novae using the National Radio Astronomy Observatory's Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA), a graduate researcher uncovered evidence the objects may have been erroneously typecast as simple. The...

First Detection of Secondary Supermassive Black Hole in a Well-Known Binary System

1 week ago from Newswise - Scinews

In a recent study, astronomers found evidence of two supermassive black holes circling each other through signals coming from the jets associated with the accretion of matter into both black...

NASA's new detectors could improve views of gamma-ray events

1 week ago from Physorg

Using technology similar to that found in smartphone cameras, NASA scientists are developing upgraded sensors to reveal more details about black hole outbursts and exploding stars—all while being less power...

Not your average space explosion: Very long baseline array finds classical novae are anything but simple

1 week ago from Physorg

While studying classical novae using the National Radio Astronomy Observatory's Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA), a graduate researcher uncovered evidence showing that the objects may have been erroneously typecast as...

1st-ever private Venus mission delayed until at least 2025

1 week ago from Space.com

The Rocket Lab's pioneering private mission to Venus, which had been set to launch last month, has been delayed until at least 2025.

Satellite beams solar power down to Earth, in first-of-a-kind demonstration

1 week ago from Science NOW

Researchers have taken a small but necessary step toward realizing a long-standing dream: harvesting solar energy in space and beaming it down to Earth. A satellite launched in January has steered power in...

Gravitational waves may come from 'cocoons' of debris around dying stars (video)

1 week ago from Space.com

Astronomers have created the first model for how debris around exploding stars could emit gravitational waves powerful enough to be detected by instruments on Earth.

Satellites watch floods ravage Ukraine following dam explosion (photos)

1 week ago from Space.com

Satellites watched as floodwaters ravaged southern Ukraine following the mysterious collapse of a major dam on Tuesday (June 6).

Study models geomagnetic field shielding over the last 100,000 years

1 week ago from Physorg

New models of how the geomagnetic field that shields the Earth's atmosphere from cosmic rays has changed over tens of thousands of years can help us understand how the climate...

James Webb Space Telescope finds the faintest galaxy ever detected at the dawn of the universe

1 week ago from Live Science

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered the faintest galaxy ever seen, burning away the pitch-black gloom of the early universe 13 billion years ago.

UAH doctoral candidate designs rotating detonation engine aimed to boost lunar and Mars missions

1 week ago from Newswise - Scinews

Michaela Hemming, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), is using a NASA Space Technology Graduate Research Opportunities...

Look: Aespa release 'Hold on Tight' music video on World Tetris Day

1 week ago from UPI

K-pop stars Aespa released a video for "Hold on Tight," their song for the "Tetris" movie starring Taron Egerton, on World Tetris Day.

NASA’s journey to a strange metal asteroid should finally begin in October

1 week ago from PopSci

A NASA probe approaches giant metal asteroid 16 Psyche in this concept art. NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA’s upcoming Psyche mission will send a small probe to a unique metal asteroid—a curious object that may be...

One-third of galaxy's most common planets could be in habitable zone

1 week ago from Newswise - Scinews

Our familiar, warm, yellow sun is a relative rarity in the Milky Way. By far the most common stars are considerably smaller and cooler, sporting just half the mass of...

World's largest iceberg is no more after being ripped apart in 'iceberg graveyard'

1 week ago from Live Science

Satellite images show fragments from the enormous iceberg A-76A dispersing near South Georgia island, where the previous world's largest iceberg also met its doom in 2020.

NASA-JPL Psyche launch on track with 'outstanding' progress, review board confirms

1 week ago from Physorg

Steps taken by NASA, the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California, and Caltech, to put the Psyche mission on track for an October 2023 launch have been outstanding,...

What's the (dark) matter with Euclid?

1 week ago from Physorg

Currently about halfway through the Euclid simulations campaign, the key focus in the Main Control Room is the Launch and Early Orbit Phase (LEOP) and spacecraft commissioning.

Watch Space.com experience moon gravity at 30,000 feet in new mini-documentary out June 7

1 week ago from Space.com

Space.com's reporter Tereza Pultarova takes part in a research flight simulating lunar gravity in this original documentary.

The ISS’s latest delivery includes space plants and atmospheric lightning monitors

1 week ago from PopSci

A SpaceX Dragon cargo craft docked with 7,000 pounds of material. NASA The International Space Station received roughly 7,000 pounds of supplies and scientific experiment materials early Tuesday morning following the successful autonomous...

Betelgeuse is almost 50% brighter than normal. What's going on?

1 week ago from Physorg

Whenever something happens with Betelgeuse, speculations about it exploding as a supernova proliferate. It would be cool if it did. We're far enough away to suffer no consequences, so it's...

Jimi Hendrix rocks the cosmos as an interstellar time traveler in 'Purple Haze'

1 week ago from Space.com

Jimi Hendrix turns into a galactic time traveler hunting for an ancient cosmic relic in upcoming graphic novel "Jimi Hendrix: Purple Haze."

First detection of secondary supermassive black hole in a well-known binary system

1 week ago from Physorg

Supermassive black holes that weigh several billion times the mass of our sun are present at the centers of active galaxies. Astronomers observe them as bright galactic cores where the...