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Universe Today
16 Jul 2019, 10:06 UTC
Astronomers have discovered, for the first time, moons forming in the disk of debris around a large exoplanet. Astronomers have suspected for a long time that this is how larger planets—like Jupiter in our own Solar System—get their moons. It’s all happening around a very young star named PDS 70, about 370 light years away in the constellation Centaurus.
A Disk of Debris is Forming Moons Around an Exoplanet. A Proto-Lunar Disk?
16 Jul 2019, 10:06 UTC
Astronomers have discovered, for the first time, moons forming in the disk of debris around a large exoplanet. Astronomers have suspected for a long time that this is how larger planets—like Jupiter in our own Solar System—get their moons. It’s all happening around a very young star named PDS 70, about 370 light years away in the constellation Centaurus.
NASA Space Station Blog
15 Jul 2019, 17:48 UTC
Two rockets will be rolling out to their launch pads this week in Kazakhstan and Florida to blastoff to the International Space Station. The orbiting Expedition 60 trio will be welcoming three new crewmates Saturday and receive more science experiments and crew supplies next Tuesday, July 23.
Crew and Cargo Rockets Poised for Rollout Ahead of Weekend Launches
15 Jul 2019, 17:48 UTC
Two rockets will be rolling out to their launch pads this week in Kazakhstan and Florida to blastoff to the International Space Station. The orbiting Expedition 60 trio will be welcoming three new crewmates Saturday and receive more science experiments and crew supplies next Tuesday, July 23.
New Scientist
15 Jul 2019, 16:00 UTC
Many of the brightest, weirdest phenomena in space come from cataclysmic events like explosions or collisions. But many fast radio bursts (FRBs), one of the most mysterious space signals we’ve seen, must not. That might mean that they are all part of a class of FRB that we previously thought might be rare.
There aren’t enough space explosions to explain strange radio bursts
15 Jul 2019, 16:00 UTC
Many of the brightest, weirdest phenomena in space come from cataclysmic events like explosions or collisions. But many fast radio bursts (FRBs), one of the most mysterious space signals we’ve seen, must not. That might mean that they are all part of a class of FRB that we previously thought might be rare.
Starts With a Bang!
15 Jul 2019, 15:16 UTC
Dark matter is one of the greatest mysteries in the Universe, displaying its effects in every massive, large-scale cosmic structure. It neither emits nor absorbs light like normal matter does, but its gravitational impact is undeniable.
New Method For Tracing Dark Matter Reveals Its Location, Abundance As Never Before
15 Jul 2019, 15:16 UTC
Dark matter is one of the greatest mysteries in the Universe, displaying its effects in every massive, large-scale cosmic structure. It neither emits nor absorbs light like normal matter does, but its gravitational impact is undeniable.
All About Space
15 Jul 2019, 10:06 UTC
Researchers led by Mario Sucerquia, from the Universidad de Antioquia, Colombia, and Jaime Alvarado-Montes from Australia’s Macquarie University, modelled the likely behaviour of giant exomoons predicted to form around massive planets – and discovered that they would be expelled and sent packing.
Astronomers explore the hypothetical world of exomoon expulsion
15 Jul 2019, 10:06 UTC
Researchers led by Mario Sucerquia, from the Universidad de Antioquia, Colombia, and Jaime Alvarado-Montes from Australia’s Macquarie University, modelled the likely behaviour of giant exomoons predicted to form around massive planets – and discovered that they would be expelled and sent packing.
The New York Times
14 Jul 2019, 03:35 UTC
David Scott and James Irwin traveled to the moon with a shopping list. Geologists wanted the two men, Apollo 15 astronauts, to collect samples that would shed light on the moon’s mysterious formation and early years. On their second day there, Aug. 1, 1971, Mr. Scott and Mr. Irwin hit the jackpot.
How Was the Moon Made? We Won’t Know Until We Go Back
14 Jul 2019, 03:35 UTC
David Scott and James Irwin traveled to the moon with a shopping list. Geologists wanted the two men, Apollo 15 astronauts, to collect samples that would shed light on the moon’s mysterious formation and early years. On their second day there, Aug. 1, 1971, Mr. Scott and Mr. Irwin hit the jackpot.
Sky and Telescope
14 Jul 2019, 01:46 UTC
The Spektrum-Röntgen-Gamma (Spektr-RG) satellite took to the skies on Saturday, July 13th, at 17:31 local time (12:31 UT). The Proton rocket carrying the spacecraft launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on the Kazakh Steppe in Russia.
German-Russian Astronomy Satellite Launches
14 Jul 2019, 01:46 UTC
The Spektrum-Röntgen-Gamma (Spektr-RG) satellite took to the skies on Saturday, July 13th, at 17:31 local time (12:31 UT). The Proton rocket carrying the spacecraft launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on the Kazakh Steppe in Russia.
ABC
13 Jul 2019, 23:00 UTC
Many asteroids have slammed into Earth with dramatic impacts, including the rock that wiped out many species of dinosaurs about 65 million years ago. It's believed that asteroid that created the 150-kilometre-wide Chicxulub Crater off the coast of Mexico would have been around 10 to 15km in diameter.
