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Astronomers Scanned 12 Planets for Alien Signals While They Were in Front of Their Stars
The Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT), part of the Green Bank Observatory in West Virginia, is the world’s premiere single-dish radio telescope. Between its 100-meter dish (328-foot), unblocked aperture, and excellent surface accuracy, the GBT provides unprecedented sensitivity in the millimeter to meter wavelengths – very high to extremely high frequency (VHF to EHF). Since 2017, it also became one of the main instruments used by Breakthrough Listen and other institutes engaged in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI).
Baby stars 'burp' in Orion Nebula after frantic feeding sessions
Astronomers have observed elusive outbursts from baby stars cloaked within the thick clouds of gas and dust of the Orion Nebula.
What Kind of an Impact did DART Have on Dimorphos? The Science Results are Here
On September 26th, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft collided with Dimorphos, the small moonlet that orbits the larger Near-Earth Asteroid (NEA) Didymos. The purpose was to test a planetary defense technique known as the kinetic impact method, where a spacecraft intentionally collides with a Potentially Hazardous Asteroid (PHAs) to alter its course. Based on a post-collision analysis, NASA determined that DART’s impact altered Dimorphos’ orbital period by 33 minutes and caused tons of rock to be ejected from its surface.
Ingenuity Mars helicopter tests new software on 37th Red Planet flight (video)
NASA's Ingenuity Mars helicopter flew for the 37th time on Saturday (Dec. 17), acing a hop designed in part to test the capabilities of its new software.
Blue Origin offers new bobbleheads of 1st New Shepard female fliers
The first women to fly on Blue Origin's New Shepard have been honored with their own bobbleheads. The figurines feature Wally Funk, Audrey Powers and Laura Shepard Churchley.
NASA's Mars InSight lander ends mission after losing power
The Red Planet's harsh dust has claimed another spacecraft.
All Eight Planets Line Up ... Again!
Echoing summer's great arc of planets at dawn, winter presents the full octet again, this time splayed across the evening sky.
Tracking CO2 emissions from space could help support climate agreements
The central objective of the Paris Agreement is to limit Earth's warming to well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, but preferably below 1.5 degrees.
Comet Impacts Could Have Brought the Raw Ingredients for Life to Europa’s Ocean
Jupiter is the most-visited planet in the Solar System, thanks largely to NASA. It all started with Pioneer 10 and 11, followed by Voyager 1 and 2. Those were all flyby missions, and it wasn’t until 1996 that the Galileo spacecraft became the first to orbit the gas giant and even send a probe into its atmosphere. Then in 2016, the Juno spacecraft entered orbit around Jupiter and is still there today.
First 'Barbie' teaser trailer parodies Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey'
Warner Bros. releases the first "Barbie" trailer in a nod to Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey."
Russian space debris forces space station to dodge, cancels US spacewalk
A piece of Russian space junk forced NASA to call off a spacewalk and the International Space Station to dodge out of the way on Wednesday (Dec. 21).
There's a new trailer for the sci-fi movie '65' and it looks fantastic
A new trailer for 65, a sci-fi action movie featuring dinosaurs where the past meets the future, is available to watch and it looks epic.
The sun is waking up, and the world's largest solar telescope is watching
With the world's largest solar telescope now conducting formal observations, scientists are eager to watch the sun's increasing activity and better understand the threats of space weather.
Young ESA team prepare Ariane 6 passenger
Image: Young ESA team prepare Ariane 6 passenger
Winter solstice 2022 brings the longest night of the year to Northern Hemisphere
The winter solstice is today (Dec. 21), marking the official start of astronomical winter in the Northern Hemisphere and the shortest day of the year.
8 ways the James Webb Space Telescope is revolutionizing astronomy
One year after its launch, the flagship space telescope is already making discoveries that are transforming our knowledge of the universe, both near and far.
Snowy Alps
Image: This Copernicus Sentinel-3 image shows the wide-coverage of snowfall in the Alps, which hopefully bodes well for the coming year.
A wreath of star formation
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Webb's picture of the month December is dominated by NGC 7469, a luminous, face-on spiral galaxy approximately 90 000 light-years in diameter that lies roughly 220 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Pegasus.
