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The Closeby Habitable Exoplanet Survey (CHES) Could Detect Exoplanets Within a few Dozen Light-Years of Earth Using Astrometry May 21, 2022
A team of Chinese researchers has proposed a new mission to find Earth-like planets in neighboring star systems - the Closeby Habitable Exoplanet Survey (CHES)! The post The Closeby Habitable Exoplanet Survey (CHES) Could Detect Exoplanets Within a few Dozen Light-Years of Earth Using Astrometry appeared first on Universe Today.
Matt Williams
Dust Storms on Mars Happen When the Planet Can’t Release its Heat Fast Enough May 20, 2022
New research led by the USRA has found a possible explanation for planet-wide Martian dust storms, which could the result of an imbalance between the energy it absorbs and emits. The post Dust Storms on Mars Happen When the Planet Can’t Release its Heat Fast Enough appeared first on Universe Today.
Matt Williams
Spinlaunch Hurled a Test Rocket Into the air. See What it Looked Like From the Payload’s Point of View May 20, 2022
Can watching a video give you motion sickness? If so, a commercial launch company called SpinLaunch just released a video that is sure to. The video is from the first camera ever attached to one of the company’s test payloads, and boy is it spectacular, though it might indeed be nausea-inducing in some people. SpinLaunch, […]
Andy Tomaswick
Is This the Future of the Milky Way? May 20, 2022
Take a good look at the latest image provided by the Hubble Space Telescope. It shows a huge elliptical galaxy called NGC 474 that lies about 100 million light-years away from us. At about two and a half times larger than our Milky Way Galaxy, it’s really a behemoth. Notice its strange structure—mostly featureless and […]
Carolyn Collins Petersen
Plants can grow in lunar regolith, but they’re not happy about it May 20, 2022
NASA is sending astronauts back to the Moon by the end of this decade, and hope to send humans to Mars sometime in the 2030s. Growing food in space using in-situ resources is vital if astronauts are to survive on both the Moon and Mars for the long-term. Growing plants in space using Earth soil […]
Laurence Tognetti