Let’s be Astro! 1. Our Cassini spacecraft sees a clump in Saturn’s F ring, which is constantly changing structure. Learn more: http://go.nasa.gov/1WbeDL2 2. Final kiss of two stars heading for catastrophe Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), an international team of astronomers has found the hottest and most massive double star with components Read more about Newsletter #7[…]
Let’s be astro! 1. Wet paleoclimate of Mars revealed by ancient lakes at Gale Crater Curiosity has been exploring Gale Crater, which is estimated to be between 3.8 billion and 3.6 billion years old, since August 2012. This mismatch between predictions of Mars’ ancient climate that arise from models developed by paleoclimatologists and indications of Read more about Newsletter #6[…]
Congrats! Promo is over! Let’s be astro! 1. Hubble Snaps Stunning Image Of An Exploded Star You’re looking at the Veil Nebula, a supernova remnant more than 2,000 light-years away. The image has been stitched together from six Hubble images, covering an area about two light-years across. It’s only a small fraction of the Read more about Newsletter #5[…]
Let’s be Astro!!! 1. Does the Nearest Quasar Host a Black Hole Binary? Our universe should be teeming with waltzing pairs of supermassive black holes. Yet they’re incredibly difficult to find. A research team has proposed a new way to find these dancing duos, but whether the method actually works is up for debate. For Read more about Newsletter #4[…]
Let’s be Astro!!! 1. NASA telescopes find galaxy cluster with vibrant heart Astronomers have discovered a rare beast of a galaxy cluster about 9.8 billion light-years away whose heart is bursting with new stars. The unexpected find, made with the help of NASA’s Spitzer and Hubble space telescopes, suggests that behemoth galaxies at the Read more about Newsletter #3[…]
Let’s be Astro!!! 1. This “Hedgehog” Robot Could Hop And Tumble Over Asteroids And Comets Exploring an asteroid, comet or a small moon like Mars’ Phobos isn’t easy. We can’t send a rover like Curiosity, because there just isn’t enough gravity for it to wheel across the surface. But what if we sent Read more about Newsletter #2[…]
Let’s be Astro!! 1. NASA’s New Horizons team selects potential Kuiper Belt flyby target New Horizons will perform a series of four manoeuvres in late October and early November to set its course toward 2014 MU69 – nicknamed “PT1” (for “Potential Target 1”) – which it expects to reach on 1 January 2019. The 2003 National Read more about Newsletter #1[…]