Is Another Interstellar Visitor Headed Our Way? - Sky & Telescope An amateur has discovered a comet that might be the second interstellar visitor after 'Oumuamua — and it's heading…
New Insight into How Much Atmosphere Mars Lost A key tracer used to estimate how much atmosphere Mars lost can change depending on the time of day and the…
Radical Wrinkle in Forming Complex Carbon Molecules in Space A science team has discovered a new possible pathway for forming carbon structures in space using an X-ray technique at…
Physicists Just Released Step-by-Step Instructions for Building a Wormhole All you need are two black holes and a few cosmic strings and voila! Instant wormhole. Source: www.space.com/building-a-wormhole-with-cosmic-strings.html
Astrophysicists Link Brightening of Pulsar Wind Nebula to Pulsar Spin-down Rate Transition---Chinese Academy of Sciences Astrophysicists have discovered that the pulsar wind nebula (PWN) surrounding the famous pulsar B0540-69 brightened…
Black Hole Holograms A research team from Osaka University, Nihon University and Chuo University has proposed a novel theoretical framework whose experiment could be performed in a laboratory to better…
Schmitt-Cassegrain Collimation Made Easy Using a Duncan Mask | Alpha Lyrae Very simple method of achieving excellent collimation of a Schmitt-Cassegrain using a home made Duncan Mask. Source: alpha-lyrae.co.uk/2013/12/31/schmitt-cassegrain-collimation-made-easy-using-a-duncan-mask/
Astronomers just quintupled the number of known repeating fast radio bursts A Canadian telescope spotted eight more repeating fast radio bursts. What causes these cryptic flashes of radio waves…
Thirty Meter Telescope forges ahead with Canary Islands site – Physics World Officials at the protest-hit telescope seek a construction permit for the island of La Palma Source: physicsworld.com/a/thirty-meter-telescope-forges-ahead-with-canary-islands-site/
German-Russian Astronomy Satellite Launches - Sky & Telescope Spektrum-Röntgen-Gamma, a long-delayed and much-modified X-ray astronomy package carrying the EROSITA telescope, launched successfully on Saturday. Source: www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-news/german-russian-astronomy-satellite-launches/?fbclid=IwAR0otfhsP6NH-XD016k6Q6rfXE8DnShMkP6Nk6jgZfTF5QZVzJHO2wjhuuA
What do you call a moon that escapes its planet? A ‘ploonet’ If giant planets in other star systems lose their moons, the freed objects could become “ploonets,” and current…
AstroCrop - Image Registration and Cropping | Linux Astronomical Imaging Automatically crop a region of interest from a series of images based on a single reference frame. Source: www.linux-astro-imaging.uk/linux/astronomy/astrocrop