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Scientists from Kyoto University teamed up a forestry company in order to investigate how wood could be used in space. The aim is to prevent pollution in the upper atmosphere which occurs when conventional satellites burn up on re-entry. Trending Takao Doi, a former International Space Station astronaut, told the BBC his team are “very concerned” about the miniscule “alumina particles” that accumulate in Earth’s atmosphere when satellites return. These particles can remain in the atmosphere for “many years,” he added. In contrast, the wooden satellites would allegedly burn up in a cleaner way. The researchers are keeping the specific types of wood they are using a secret. Still, it is understood they are set to trial different types thanks to their partnership with Sumitomo Forestry. Japanese researchers say satellites polliute the atmosphere when they burn up (Image: PaulFleet / Getty) However, some analysts have hit out at the reports. John Timmer, a reporter for tec...

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In the coming days, geomagnetic storms are predicted to strike the Earth directly, according to space weather scientists. The impending space weather event comes when a solar storm dust cloud bombards the Blue Planet, according to the most recent reports within the past 24 hours. Some of these reports involve not only the arrival of geo magnetic storms , but also solar radiation storms and radio blackouts, putting in danger a variety of living organisms as well as radio frequencies, the electrical grid system, and satellites. In recent months, the frequency of these space storms has grown. However, space authorities such as the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) highlighted that this might rise more by the end of the year as the Sun’s solar cycle gets more active. In Southeast Asia and Australia, massive blackouts have been observed in recent months, impacting the electrical infrastructure. Despite the regularity, there have been no solar storms...

According to a study, in a scene right out of “The Twilight Zone,” a team of NASA researchers conducting an experiment in Antarctica have discovered evidence of a parallel world with physics that is completely opposite to our own.   A cosmic ray detection experiment has discovered particles that may be from a parallel universe that also emerged from the Big Bang, according to the Daily Star. The idea of a parallel universe has been around since the early 1960s, largely in the imaginations of fans of sci-fi TV series and comics. NASA’s Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna, or ANITA, was transported by a massive balloon far above Antarctica, where the freezing, dry air offered the ideal setting with little to no radio noise to skew the results.   From space, there is a continuous “wind” of high-energy particles that come to Earth. The paper claims that whereas higher-energy particles are blocked by the solid substance of our planet,...

The award will be used to develop the Technology necessary to construct facilities on the moon’s surface, including highways and landing areas. NASA needs new technologies to upgrade the moon’s infrastructure while it conducts exploration under Artemis. In an effort to fill this need, NASA has contracted with ICON, a leading provider of advanced construction technology best known for its 3-D printed homes, for a $57.2 million project to create construction methods for the construction of infrastructures, such as landing pads, habitats, and roads, on the moon. The agreement is valid through 2028. The NASA Small Business Innovation Research program’s Phase III includes the contract that was signed on Tuesday. It is an extension of an earlier SBIR dual-use contract with the Air Force that was partly financed by NASA. With the money from the grant, ICON will be able to continue its Project Olympus research and development of space-based building solutions. Nik...

Scientists have taken the first direct picture of a solar system that is strikingly similar to our own. The new image shows two huge exoplanets orbiting a young, sun-like star about 300 light-years away. It looks more like a family portrait. The image was captured with the Very Large Telescope of the European Southern Observatory, which is located in Chile’s Atacama Desert. The newly discovered solar system will aid astronomers in better understanding how our solar system developed and evolved. The has been published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters. The star, identified as TYC 8998-760-1 and found in the Southern constellation Musca, is only 17 million years old, making it a “very young version of our own sun,” according to researchers. In comparison, the sun is 4.6 billion years old. Both planets orbiting the star, named TYC 8998-760-1b and TYC 8998-760-1c, are considered to be gas giants, meaning they are mostly made up of hydrogen and helium. They are, however, much f...

The Parker Solar Probe has taken the first visible- light photographs of Venus’s surface . Normally, the planet’s surface is shrouded by dense cloud cover, but the probe was recently able to picture the nightside of Venus using its Wide-Field Imager (WISPR) in wavelengths that the human eye can observe. The Parker Solar Probe took images of the night side of Venus, revealing surface features in dark and light markings. Image via NASA. Brian Wood, lead author on the new study and physicist at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, DC, said: “Venus is the third brightest thing in the sky, but until recently we have not had much information on what the surface looked like because our view of it is blocked by a thick atmosphere. Now, we finally are seeing the surface in visible wavelengths for the first time from space,” The first of these photographs were captured by the Parker Solar Probe in July 2020, during its third flyby of Venus to tilt it...

These beautifully real images are some of the closest images of Jupiter. Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in the Solar System. It is a gas giant with a mass more than two and a half times that of all the other planets in the Solar System combined, but slightly less than one-thousandth the mass of the Sun. Main goal of Juno is to understand origin and evolution of Jupiter, and also look for solid planetary core, along with map magnetic field. Juno is also measuring water and ammonia in deep atmosphere. According to NASA Juno also observe auroras. The original image was captured by JunoCam, the camera on NASA’s Juno mission in orbit around Jupiter. This image was taken on Juno’s 22nd close pass by Jupiter on Sept. 12, 2019 with image processing done by Prateek. . . . . . . . . . Source: https://thefoxposts.com/behold-the-most-detail-rich-jupiter-images-ever-captured-TheFOXposts-6392.html?utm_source=blogger_source...

Famous physicist Prof. Brian Cox has recently made an entry in one of Astronomy ’s most inquisitive and vital questions: Given the high possibility of intelligent alien life randomly prevailing in the ceaselessly massive universe, why, still, haven’t we discovered any sort of indication of it? What could be the reason? This question is very old and it was Italian physicist Enrico Fermi, who put forward this question in the 1950s, in what’s now known as the Fermi paradox. He debated there’s inconsistency between the high possibility of alien life existing and the total absence of hard indication that intelligent life has ever developed outside of Earth. So he famously asked:  “Where is everybody?” So, Professor Cox considers that he might finally have the answer. But you will probably not like it. According to the article published on Sunday Times, Professor Brian Cox said: “One solution to the Fermi paradox is that it is not possible to run a world that has th...

 It’s official. There is water on the Moon. We assumed there was for almost a decade, based on detections announced in 2009, but the wavelengths used left space for interpretation. Scientists announce the first unambiguous discovery using a distinct wavelength peculiar to water. Those 2009 conclusions appeared to be correct. Because the 2009 detections were produced in the 3-micrometer infrared region, the uncertainty emerged. Water or another hydroxyl molecule containing hydrogen and oxygen were the only options at this wavelength. A team of scientists led by NASA Goddard Space Flight Centre astronomer Casey Honniball sought to investigate the wavelength that may validate or refute such conclusions. The 6-micrometer infrared band should display a line that can only be formed by two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom – the H-O-H bend vibration. However, establishing an unambiguous detection in that spectrum is difficult. It necessitates the use of the Stratospher...

A rising number of individuals seem to believe that the earth is, in fact, flat.  But it gets better. They also claim that Australia is a fake. According to a popular Facebook rant, the whole country (and, by extension, the 24 million people who reside there) is a hoax. The idea was revived during a recent meeting of so-called Flat Earthers in Birmingham when over 200 individuals gathered to certify that the Earth is nothing more than a huge pancake. The “fake Australia” post first appeared on Reddit in 2017 and was authored by Shelley Floryd. However, it seems to be returning to the minds of the spherically challenged at the minute. The rant goes: “Australia is not real. It’s a hoax, made for us to believe that Britain moved over their criminals to someplace. In reality, all these criminals were loaded off the ships into the waters, drowning before they could see land ever again. It’s a coverup [sic] for one of the greatest mass murders in Histor...

Over 200 million Americans saw the August 2017 total solar eclipse , but none had a finer vantage point than photographer Jon Carmichael. He spent years devising a unique method of capturing the entire eclipse , finally merging his interests in photography, Astronomy , and aviation. This is the second best photograph of Solar Eclipse. (Credit: Colleen Pinski) “I wondered if I got up high enough, could I actually see the moon’s shadow move across the Earth’s surface at 2,000 mph? That’s what I really wanted to see,” Carmichael tells My Modern Met. “And as a photographer, I wondered, can I actually capture this beautiful fleeting moment in our country from a unique perspective? This was the most photographed moment in History , so as a professional photographer that’s a lot of pressure.” After carefully examining the eclipse route, the photographer discovered that Southwest Airlines had a trip from Portland to St. Louis that would place him in prime...

NASA’s prototype warp drive spacecraft. (Mark It is an incredible discovery that can take us to other star systems in the still very distant future, but somewhat closer than yesterday. The theory behind that engine — proposed in the 1990s by Mexican mathematician Miguel Alcubierre — allows a spacecraft to travel faster than light by curving space, expanding it behind the ship while contracting it at its bow. In this way, the effective distance between two points is shortened and the ship could cover that distance faster than a photon traveling through unwarped space. A nanoscopic bubble The team was working on a different project for DARPA, the Pentagon’s advanced technology division when they came across the bubble by accident. That original project—still underway—is evaluating the possibility of extracting energy from a phenomenon called a Casimir cavity. This effect describes the attraction between metallic objects separated by an extremely small distance. Accordi...

NASA verified that the biggest comet ever detected has a diameter of around 85 miles and is now officially the largest comet ever spotted after Hubble Space Telescope studies. C/2014 UN271 (Bernardinelli-Bernstein (BB) was discovered in 2014 by two astronomers, Pedro Bernardinelli and Gary Bernstein, using Dark Energy Survey archived pictures. BB’s diameter was previously estimated to be between 62 and 124 miles, but NASA has officially verified the comet’s nucleus diameter to be 85 miles wide using the Hubble Space Telescope. According to NASA’s blog, BB has surpassed the previous record-holder comet C/2002 VQ94, which has an approximate nucleus diameter of 85 miles. The space agency adds that the comet has been hurtling toward Earth for a million years and will pose no danger to the planet when it reaches its closest approach in 2031, coming within a billion miles of Earth or around the distance between Earth and Saturn. Consider that if the whole area of BB...

Just imagine that future human s may be able to Travel to distant planets and discover… more human s. According to one astrobiologist at the University of Cambridge, that possibility may be more realistic than you think. In a new interview with the BBC’s Science Focus magazine, Simon Conway Morris, an evolutionary palaeobiologist at the institution’s Department of Earth Sciences, stated that scientists can “say with reasonable certainty” that human-like evolution has occurred in other locations throughout the universe. Morris’ opinion is based on the convergent evolution theory, which asserts that “random effects eventually average out to the point where evolution converges, tending to create similar creatures in any given environment.” The magazine cited flight as an example, noting that it “has evolved independently at least four times on Earth — in birds, bats, insects, and pterosaurs.” This means that convergent ...

According to scientists, all of the key elements of our DNA have now been discovered on meteorites. What exactly does this mean? Simply put, life on Earth might have originated in space . Over the previous century, space rocks that crashed on our planet Earth included the five basic components of DNA and RNA, scientists reported in Nature Communications on April 26. Adenine, guanine, cytosine, thymine, and uracil are the five “nucleobases” that, together with a few sugars and phosphates, combine to form the genetic code for all life on Earth. Scientists believe that these elements either arrived from space or grew on the planet in an early hot soup. The former idea now has further support as a result of these new discoveries. Adenine and guanine are two of the few chemicals discovered in meteorites since the 1960s, according to experts. Uracil was also detected, although cytosine and thymine remain “elusive,” according to Science News. NASA’s ...

This new discovery is amazing as adds so  much to our understanding of the Universe. One of the most entertaining names that I’ve come across in the physics sector is the “Oh My God Particle.” Scientists also refer to this  particle as the “ermahgerd particle” (kidding, kidding. It’s not really called that, but it is called the “Oh My God Particle”).  Now, the first thing that may pop into some of your minds is the Higgs Boson, which was discovered in 2012. T This isn’t too surprising as the media went around calling it the “God Particle.” However, these two particles are very different. So what is the Oh My God Particle? Well it is a simple, lowly proton. So why the name? This proton had the effective mass-energy of a baseball Travel ing at 90 km/h (56 mph)! This type of particle is known as a cosmic ray, they’re generally just protons but can sometimes be a Helium atom or even an electron. What makes them so interesting is that they’re Travel ing very near the speed of light...

Although the Moon does have an atmosphere, it is very thin and mostly made of hydrogen, neon, and argon. This is not a gaseous combination capable of supporting oxygen-dependent Animals such as humans. On the Moon, there is an abundance of oxygen. It is just not in a gaseous state. Rather than that, it is trapped inside regolith — the lunar surface’s covering of rock and fine dust. Would oxygen extracted from regolith be sufficient to sustain human life on the Moon? Oxygen is present in a wide variety of minerals found in the earth around us. Additionally, the Moon is composed mostly of the same materials found on Earth (although with a slightly greater amount of material that came from meteors). The Moon’s surface is dominated by minerals such as silica, aluminum, iron, and magnesium oxides. All of these minerals include oxygen, but in an inaccessible form to our lungs. These minerals occur in a variety of forms on the Moon, including hard rock, dust, gravel, and...

Between Mars and Jupiter lies an incredibly rare metallic asteroid that is worth more than the entire world economy. The Hubble Space Telescope has now provided us with a closer look at the object, which is estimated to be worth $10 quadrillion dollars. New research published this week in The Planetary Science Journal looks deeper than ever before into the secrets of the asteroid 16 Psyche, one of the solar system’s most enormous objects in the main asteroid belt around Mars and Jupiter, roughly 230 million miles from Earth. It has a diameter of around 140 miles or nearly the size of Massachusetts. The majority of asteroids consist of rock or ice. But 16 Psyche is dense and composed mostly of metal, likely the remnant core of a planet that never fully formed — a so-called “protoplanet” whose mantle was stripped away by collisions that revealed its core. This research represents the first ultraviolet (UV) observations of the celestial body. The asteroid may be...