Friday, May 6, 2022

Mars Helicopter Spots Wreckage of Rover’s Jettisoned Parachute and Backshell

05/06/2022

NEWS & FEATURES

Mars helicopter spots wreckage of rover's jettisoned parachute and backshell
NASA/JPL-Caltech

The new shots reveal how well the gear that helped Perseverance land fared, and they might help engineers plan for a future return mission to Earth.

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The DUDE abides: Astronomers spot smoke rings around V Hydrae
 ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/S. Dagnello (NRAO/AUI/NSF)

Six cosmic “smoke rings” around V Hydrae offer a unique view of a dying giant star.

Laser propulsion can slash journey time to Mars, say rocket engineers 
Supamotion/Shutterstock

The faster, laser-powered spacecraft would dramatically reduce astronauts' exposure to radiation during the journey.

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Micronovae: Astronomers find three white dwarfs exploding at their poles
Mark Garlick (http://www.markgarlick.com/)

The new type of stellar blast is less powerful than a classical nova, but just as intriguing.

Ask Astro: How far away is the cosmic microwave background?
NASA/WMAP Science Team

The cosmic microwave background is radiation generated some 300,000 years after the Big Bang. How far away from us is it now?

The sky this week
David Kingham (Flickr)

Your daily digest of celestial events coming soon to a sky near you. Updated Friday morning at 9 A.M. Central.

Milky Way at Dusk
Arman Moradi Fard from Abdanan, Iran

As dusk falls, the Milky Way begins to glow above the hills of southwestern Iran. This shot was taken with a single exposure of 20 seconds at f/3.5 and ISO 2500 with a Nikon D7200 and 18–55mm lens.

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