Saturday, May 31, 2025
New Telescope
"It was only three short years ago that we still lived in the Hubble era, with the most distant object then discovered being galaxy GN-z11, whose now-arriving light was emitted just 420 million years after the Big Bang."https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/jwst-very-first-stars-new-telescope/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=swab
Earths Speed
"No matter what perspective you choose to look at it from, planet Earth is always in motion."https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/fast-earth-move/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=swab
Neutrino Mass
"There are many puzzles out there about the very nature of reality that remain to be solved."https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/mystery-neutrino-mass-smaller-than-ever/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=swab
Universe without Dark Matter
"Here in our own Solar System, it’s normal matter that dominates the massive objects we observe and measure."https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/universe-without-dark-matter/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=swab
Space Pioneer
"Northrop Grumman is a space pioneer, supporting government, civil and commercial customers in solving their biggest challenges."https://www.northropgrumman.com/space?utm_source=googlesem&utm_medium=search&utm_campaign=space-hp&utm_audience=customer&utm_content=keywords&utm_format=cpc&code=OTH-13321&source=OTH-13321&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=21684891782&gclid=CjwKCAjwruXBBhArEiwACBRtHRP7CDEGw4z1zeoemzICAvtqWqvoGQqAZCyL9nyWmbFVJ8Y9s8s1sBoCc3gQAvD_BwE
Thursday, May 29, 2025
Dwarf Planet Discovery
"Just when you thought you knew all the worlds in the solar system, astronomers go and discover a new object that could rewrite the space map."https://mashable.com/article/new-dwarf-planet-discovery-solar-system-beyond-pluto?utm_medium=browser_notifications&utm_source=pushly&utm_campaign=21928243
Object Flashing
"Astronomers have discovered a mysterious object flashing strange signals from deep space, and they have no idea what it is."https://www.livescience.com/space/unlike-anything-we-have-seen-before-astronomers-discover-mysterious-object-firing-strange-signals-at-earth-every-44-minutes?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter&user_id=66c4c92f5d78644b3ac5d5b4
Celestial Object Lurking
"Scientists are intrigued after spotting a highly unusual celestial object lurking at the very edge of our solar system."https://www.yahoo.com/news/scientists-detect-mysterious-object-deep-174708874.html
Wednesday, May 28, 2025
Heart of Blackholes
"What lies at the heart of a black hole has puzzled physicists for decades. Now, a team led by physicist Enrico Rinaldi has taken a bold approach to the mystery."https://www.thebrighterside.news/post/astronomers-discover-whats-at-the-center-of-a-black-hole/
ICRAR
"Astronomers from the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR), in collaboration with international teams, have made a startling discovery about a new type of cosmic phenomenon."https://charmingscience.com/astronomers-discover-mysterious-object-firing-strange-signals-at-earth-every-44-minutes/
Universe Findings
"Mississippi State University Professor of Physics Dipangkar Dutta is leading a groundbreaking experiment that is reshaping our understanding of the universe. His team’s research, recently published in the prestigious journal Physics Letters B, shows that the concept of “symmetry” in physics does not always behave the way scientists have long believed."https://scitechdaily.com/rethinking-the-universe-new-findings-rewrite-rules-of-subatomic-matter/
Hubble
"For the past decade, scientists have been trying to get to the bottom of what seemed like a major inconsistency in the universe."https://charmingscience.com/webb-telescope-helps-refine-hubble-constant-suggesting-resolution-to-long-standing-expansion-rate-debate/
Tuesday, May 27, 2025
Moons Magnetism
"Where did the moon’s magnetism go?"https://news.mit.edu/2025/why-are-some-rocks-on-moon-highly-magnetic-0523?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter&user_id=66c4c92f5d78644b3ac5d5b4
Missing Links
"Astronomers at the world’s largest telescope have found hints of a ‘missing link’ in the evolution of two binary stars that are tightly orbiting one another."https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01633-8?utm_source=Live+Audience&utm_campaign=6267b05a55-nature-briefing-daily-20250527&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b27a691814-6267b05a55-50276768
Nine Planets
"Our solar system once had nine planets, but things changed when Pluto lost its planetary status in 2006."https://www.earth.com/news/astronomers-announce-evidence-suggesting-that-our-solar-system-has-nine-planets-again/#google_vignette
Sunday, May 25, 2025
Ion Storm
"The region of outer space around the Earth is known as "geospace". In geospace, charged particles (plasma) such as ions and electrons exist, albeit in small quantities."
https://www.isas.jaxa.jp/en/topics/003566.html
Universe Understanding
"No matter how well we think we understand the Universe, there’s always something new out there to discover."
https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/jwst-breaks-record-most-distant-galaxy-mom-z14/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=swab
Saturday, May 24, 2025
Expansion of Universe
"The discovery in 1998 that the Universe is expanding faster over time shook the foundations of cosmology."https://www.thebrighterside.news/post/new-research-findings-challenge-einsteins-landmark-theory-of-relativity/
Dark Matter
"Scientists say they can explain dark matter by positing a particle that links to a fifth dimension."https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a64841431/fermion-particle-fifth-dimension/
Frozen Ocean
"Astronomers have long been intrigued by the makeup of the asteroid belt’s largest body."https://www.thebrighterside.news/space/frozen-ocean-world-discovered-between-mars-and-jupiter/
Friday, May 23, 2025
Is Gravity quantum
"One of the most profound open questions in modern physics is: “Is gravity quantum?”"
https://charmingscience.com/is-gravity-quantum-laser-cooling-brings-torsional-oscillators-closer-to-answering-this-question/
Monday, May 19, 2025
Dark Galexy
"Something exciting is happening in space."https://charmingscience.com/a-dark-galaxy-is-said-to-be-hiding-in-a-cloud-spinning-around-the-milky-way/
Sunday, May 18, 2025
Universe
"We have long taken it for granted that gravity is one of the basic forces of nature – one of the invisible threads that keeps the universe stitched together."https://charmingscience.com/the-universe-is-suspiciously-like-a-computer-simulation-physicist-says/
Saturday, May 17, 2025
China
"China has reached a major new level in its efforts to explore deep space by successfully using lasers to measure distances to satellites flying near the Earth and the Moon."https://charmingscience.com/china-achieves-historic-laser-measurement-of-earth-moon-distance/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR4nYY7Q4cV97Q7rTvCVPU-I4x3IkMDtIMuj6tbsQCswm5iX3oTRYB-_EPaBvw_aem_saxLQhORNFsgFh4cZBmXkg
Friday, May 16, 2025
Voyager 1
"Engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California have revived a set of thrusters aboard the Voyager 1 spacecraft that had been considered inoperable since 2004."https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-voyager-1-revives-backup-thrusters-before-command-pause/?utm_source=iContact&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1-nasajpl&utm_content=voyager20250514
Precious Moon
"Precious moon samples brought back to Earth by China's Chang'e 5 mission in 2020 have finally been shared with international researchers — but the law has made it difficult for U.S.-based scientists to receive any of the material."https://www.space.com/astronomy/moon/china-is-sharing-priceless-moon-samples-with-international-partners-but-nasa-cant-be-a-part-of-it
Thursday, May 15, 2025
Albert Einstein
"In a bizarre repercussion of Albert Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity, objects traveling close to the speed of light appear flipped over."https://www.space.com/science/a-spaceship-moving-near-the-speed-of-light-would-appear-rotated-special-relativity-experiment-proves
Space Exploration
"People see me now, and they just assume, 'oh, she had it easy,'" she says, but Rose Ferreira has had it anything but easy."https://www.space.com/space-exploration/nasa-celebrated-this-employees-story-of-resilience-then-tried-to-scrub-it-from-the-internet-then-fired-her
Sunday, May 11, 2025
Psyche
"Asteroid Psyche (formally designated 16 Psyche) is one of the most intriguing objects in our Solar System's asteroid belt."https://www.universetoday.com/articles/uh-oh-theres-a-problem-with-psyches-propulsion-system
Soviet Space Craft Plunged to Earth
"A Soviet-era spacecraft plunged to Earth on Saturday, more than a half-century after its failed launch to Venus."https://charmingscience.com/soviet-spacecraft-crash-lands-on-earth-after-a-journey-of-half-a-century/
Friday, May 9, 2025
Civilization in Space
"We do at some point need to be a multiplanet civilization, because Earth will be incinerated."https://www.space.com/astronomy/mars/eventually-all-life-on-earth-will-be-destroyed-by-the-sun-elon-musk-explains-his-drive-to-colonize-mars
ALICE
"In a paper published in Physical Review C, the ALICE collaboration reports measurements that quantify the transmutation of lead into gold in CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC)."https://phys-org.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/phys.org/news/2025-05-alice-conversion-gold-large-hadron.amp?amp_gsa=1&_js_v=a9&usqp=mq331AQGsAEggAID#amp_tf=From%20%251%24s&aoh=17468053592912&csi=0&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&share=https%3A%2F%2Fphys.org%2Fnews%2F2025-05-alice-conversion-gold-large-hadron.html
Block Holes
"Astronomers have discovered nearly 100 examples of massive black holes shredding and devouring stars, almost all of them where you’d expect to find massive black holes: in the star-dense cores of massive galaxies."https://news.berkeley.edu/2025/05/08/not-one-but-two-massive-black-holes-are-eating-away-at-this-galaxy/?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter&user_id=66c4c92f5d78644b3ac5d5b4
Space Junk
"This will be no ordinary space junk fall."https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/old-soviet-venus-landers-fall-to-earth-will-be-no-ordinary-space-junk-crash-heres-why?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter&user_id=66c4c92f5d78644b3ac5d5b4
Wednesday, May 7, 2025
Laurie Leshin
"Laurie Leshin has decided to step down as director of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory on Sunday, June 1. "https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/dave-gallagher-named-11th-director-of-jpl-as-laurie-leshin-steps-down/?utm_source=iContact&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1-nasajpl&utm_content=gallagher20250507
Orbital Transmission
"Shortly after sunrise on a late summer morning nearly nine years ago at SpaceX's sole operational launch pad, engineers neared the end of a static fire test."https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/05/spacex-pushed-sniper-theory-with-the-feds-far-more-than-is-publicly-known/?utm_source=nl&utm_brand=ars&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_mailing=Ars_Orbital_050725&utm_medium=email&bxid=5bdce8643f92a434ca85f247&cndid=45206598&hasha=ecc4eb5a460f31b456c54514153c0893&hashb=126020d02221c0fc5a17b7aa92eeaba8b008e1db&hashc=64a20f24338333901e4cb7afc40a3cfae56c6770df59fc13cf25a5ce36d78b01&esrc=subscribe-page&utm_content=Final&utm_term=ARS_OrbitalTransmission
General Relativity
"Ever since general relativity pointed to the existence of black holes, the scientific community has been wary of one peculiar feature: the singularity at the center—a point, hidden behind the event horizon, where the laws of physics that govern the rest of the universe appear to break down completely."https://phys-org.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/phys.org/news/2025-05-alternative-black-hole-quantum-effects.amp?amp_gsa=1&_js_v=a9&usqp=mq331AQGsAEggAID#amp_tf=From%20%251%24s&aoh=17466397293920&csi=0&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&share=https%3A%2F%2Fphys.org%2Fnews%2F2025-05-alternative-black-hole-quantum-effects.html
Expanse of Cosmos
"In the vast expanse of the cosmos, the discovery of hidden celestial structures often transforms our understanding of the universe."https://www.sustainability-times.com/research/its-huge-and-its-been-hidden-for-this-whole-time-astronomers-staggered-by-discovery-of-eos-a-giant-glowing-cloud-in-space/#google_vignette
Monday, May 5, 2025
Quantum Theory
"At long last, a unified theory combining gravity with the other fundamental forces—electromagnetism and the strong and weak nuclear forces—is within reach."https://phys-org.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/phys.org/news/2025-05-quantum-theory-gravity-sought-crucial.amp?amp_gsa=1&_js_v=a9&usqp=mq331AQIUAKwASCAAgM%3D#amp_tf=From%20%251%24s&aoh=17464885345082&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&share=https%3A%2F%2Fphys.org%2Fnews%2F2025-05-quantum-theory-gravity-sought-crucial.html
NATIONAL ASTRONAUT DAY
"National Astronaut Day on May 5th each year celebrates Astronauts as true heroes."https://www.nationaldaycalendar.com/national-day/national-astronaut-day-may-5?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=13286062&hashed_email=6c23328441e0f46865e8039a24ce7ccf8880f2d7&email=yeremiah%40aol.com
Saturday, May 3, 2025
NATIONAL SPACE DAY
"National Space Day dedicates the first Friday in May to the extraordinary achievements, benefits, and opportunities in the exploration and use of space."
https://www.nationaldaycalendar.com/national-day/national-space-day-first-friday-in-may?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=13272375&hashed_email=6c23328441e0f46865e8039a24ce7ccf8880f2d7&email=yeremiah%40aol.com
Friday, May 2, 2025
Perseverance Rover
"NASA's Perseverance rover almost had to let go of a precious drill bit on Mars after an attempt to collect a rock sample went awry."https://mashable.com/article/nasa-mars-perseverance-rover-drill-bit-stuck
Thursday, May 1, 2025
Vega C
"A Vega C rocket successfully launched an Earth science satellite for the European Space Agency, a mission officials said was also a demonstration of European space sovereignty."https://spacenews.com/vega-launches-biomass-satellite/?utm_source=nl&utm_brand=ars&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_mailing=ARS_Rocket_050125&utm_medium=email&bxid=5bdce8643f92a434ca85f247&cndid=45206598&hasha=ecc4eb5a460f31b456c54514153c0893&hashb=126020d02221c0fc5a17b7aa92eeaba8b008e1db&hashc=64a20f24338333901e4cb7afc40a3cfae56c6770df59fc13cf25a5ce36d78b01&esrc=bx_multi2nd_orbitalent&utm_term=ARS_RocketReport
Joseph Twicken
"The SETI Institute will recognize Dr. Joseph Twicken, Senior Data Scientist at the SETI Institute, with its 2025 Carl Sagan Center (CSC) Director’s Award."https://www.seti.org/press-release/seti-institute-honor-contributions-exoplanet-research-its-carl-sagan-center-directors-award?utm_source=Housefile&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=043025&utm_id=Newsletter
MSRO
"The SETI Institute and the Maldives Space Research Organisation (MSRO) will collaborate on astronomy research, space science education and public outreach."https://www.seti.org/press-release/seti-institute-and-maldives-space-research-organisation-team-astronomy-science-and-education?utm_source=Housefile&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=043025&utm_id=Newsletter
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