Category: Discoveries
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Life on Venus
Life on…Venus? Hang on. I thought that we were all eventually moving to Mars! Rocket Labs is planning to search for life on Venus and they have no plans to stop at one mission. The surface temperature of Venus is hot enough to melt lead. How do they expect us to live there? How indeed..…
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Unexpected Carbon Monoxide Content in Comet Borisov
During Borisov’s short travel through the inner part of the solar system, it was surrounded by its own delicate cloud of gas that was created as the sun heated up the ice on its surface. Observations of the gas cloud show that the carbon monoxide was more than three times as elevated as any local…
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Pluto Has an Icy Heart and It Produces Cold Winds
Pluto’s heart is made of nitrogen and it controls the planet’s winds. Based on new research, it may even become the precursor to the features of the planet’s surface. Fondly called Tombaugh Regio, Pluto’s heart-shaped detail became renowned after NASA’s mission, New Horizons shot footage of the small planet back in 2015. The video showed…
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Brand New Solar Telescope Forms Initial Images
The first images released from the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope of the National Science Foundation show a preview of the products from the solar telescope and the extraordinary features of the sun’s surface. The space weather can most certainly affect the Earth’s systems. Various magnetic eruptions on the surface of the sun can damage…
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Radcliffe Wave
Did you know the gas that forms stars was recently discovered just outside our solar system? This gas covers a massive 9,000 light years, has been dubbed the Radcliffe Wave, and has a sine wave. Those with a keen eye will note that the wave is named after the Radcliffe University which is well known…
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The Discovery of An Ultra Hot Neptune Exoplanet
The masses and physical characteristics of planets are usually predictable based on the distance between them and their star. Recent space discoveries reported at the TESS Space Conference in MIT announced the unusual observation of an exoplanet, LTT 9779b, which presents itself as a gaseous giant or otherwise known as an “ultra-hot Neptune”, despite its…
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Revelatory Excavation on the Moon
The moon is our nearest cosmic neighbour and natural satellite, yet scientists remain unsure of its history and physical properties. Chinese space experts have deployed the Yutu-2-rover from its Chang’e-4 orbital craft upon the surface of the moon in a far side location. The landing had caused a minor fracture of the terrain, revealing minerals…
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The Elusive Disk of the Black Hole
Black holes are enigmatic objects in the cosmos that are continuously examined by astronomers. As viewed from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), in northern Chile, Scientists have discovered the accretion disk of the enormous Black hole positioned within the Milky Way. Black holes are generally easy to distinguish within the cosmos with the formation…
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Tracing the Universe’s Past With Neutrinos
When the universe formed via the Big Bang, around 13.8 billion years ago, slivers of its impression remained in the form of subatomic particles called neutrinos. Scientists believe that neutrinos may hold the answer to how the universe looked like in its budding years. Many new theories may be derived from the recent discovery, which…
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Spacecraft Offers New Solar Perspective
Spacecraft Offers New Solar Perspective The sun contains many secrets that are slowly being revealed by breakthrough discoveries in outer space. Voyager 2, a NASA spacecraft, has exited the heliosphere (a boundary of solar wind emitted from the sun) , a feat matched only by its namesake, the Voyager 1. Both spacecrafts were launched by…