Tuesday, November 7, 2023

Crab Nebula

"NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has gazed at the Crab Nebula, a supernova remnant located 6,500 light-years away in the constellation Taurus."

https://www.nasa.gov/missions/webb/the-crab-nebula-seen-in-new-light-by-nasas-webb/

Supermassive Blackhole

"Supermassive blackholes sucking galactic gas towards their centre end up throwing most of it away, Japanese researchers have found in research they describe as “monumental.”"

https://cosmosmagazine.com/space/astrophysics/world-first-observation-of-lightyear-scale-black-hole-gas-flows/?utm_source=Cosmos+-+Master+Mailing+List&utm_campaign=43a878af00-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_3f5c04479a-43a878af00-181027409&mc_cid=43a878af00&mc_eid=3e3d9f7a52

Saturday, November 4, 2023

Perseverance Rover

"On July 4, 2023, the Perseverance Rover celebrated its 842nd Martian day on Mars. As the red sky above began to grow dark, the adventurous robot turned its left navigation camera to the hazy horizon."

https://www.sciencealert.com/perseverance-captures-a-beautifully-strange-blue-sunset-on-mars

New System of Seven Planets

"Astronomers studying data from NASA's retired Kepler space telescope discovered a new system of seven "scorching" planets orbiting a distant star that is bigger and hotter than the sun, the space agency said Thursday."

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nasa-telescope-reveals-new-planets-kepler/

Thursday, November 2, 2023

A Restroom with a View

"A restroom with an out-of-this-world view could be the surprise highlight for travelers adventuring with space tourism start-up Space Perspective."

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/space-toilet-space-perspective-scn/index.html

Wednesday, November 1, 2023

Aerial archaeology Early Days

"Back in the early days of aerial archaeology, a French Jesuit priest named Antoine Poidebard flew a biplane over the northern Fertile Crescent to conduct one of the first aerial surveys. "

https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/10/i-spy-with-my-cold-war-satellite-eye-nearly-400-roman-forts-in-the-middle-east/

X rays uses

"In 1895, Wilhelm Röntgen discovered X-rays and used them to image the bones in his wife’s hand, kicking off a revolutionary diagnostic tool for medicine."


https://www.nasa.gov/missions/chandra/nasa-x-ray-telescopes-reveal-the-bones-of-a-ghostly-cosmic-hand/?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter