V4046 Sagittarii – K-type main-sequence star
V4046 Sagittarii is a constellation. It is a young binary star system made up of two K-type main-sequence stars. The two stars are approximately 271…
Astronomy
What You Should Know About NASA’s Spacecraft Colliding With An Asteroid This Month
In only two weeks, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission will crash into Dimorphos, a tiny moonlet orbiting the bigger asteroid Didymos, to see…
Beautiful New Images From the Orion Nebula Will Help JWST Uncover Star Birth Secrets
The majority of the objects the JWST has observed are so dim that even with binoculars, let alone the naked eye, they are impossible to…
Feel Like You’re Flying On Mars With New Colored Images from Ingenuity
After being grounded for more than two months because of dust, subfreezing temperatures, and limited power as Jezero Crater experienced winter, NASA’s Mars helicopter, Ingenuity,…
China Finds a New Moon Mineral That May Someday Power Fusion Reactors
According to reports by Chinese official media, a new material found on the Moon has spurred China to announce plans to undertake three uncrewed missions…
Watch It All Happen Here as Bezos’s New Shepherd Rocket Aborts Its Launch Mid-Flight
The launch of the New Shepherd mission today did not go as planned since it aborted due to a “mid-flight anomaly,” but there is no…
Who Said It Was A Good Idea To Ask The Internet To Name NASA’s Uranus Mission?
It is a poor idea to ask the general population to name things. Ask any sailor who came close to serving aboard the admirable Boaty…
Orbiting Star With Habitable Rocky Super-Earth Found Just 100 Light-Years Away
To the currently extensive list of exoplanets, or planets that orbit stars outside the Solar System, two more rocky super-Earths can be added. This discovery…
Millisecond Pulsars and Gamma Rays from a nearby Galaxy
Physicists and astronomers have studied gamma rays caused by the Sagittarius Dwarf, a small neighboring galaxy of our Milky Way. They showed that all the…
Venus Was Recently Hit by One Of The Largest Solar Storms Ever Recorded
Recently, the Sun has been quite active, exciting both professional and amateur astronomers. This past week, it intensified the situation with a powerful explosion on…
Some of You Will Witness The Moon Blocking Uranus Next Week
The Moon occasionally appears to pass in front of other celestial bodies since it is the one that is nearest to Earth. We refer to…
The First Direct Image of an Exoplanet from the James Webb Space Telescope
This is the first picture of an exoplanet from the James Webb Space Telescope. JWST also got its first direct spectrum of an object orbiting…
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