Friday, June 10, 2022

Meet these 5 'Celebrity Meteorites'

06/10/2022

NEWS & FEATURES

Meet these 5 'celebrity meteorites'
tonynetone (Flickr)

Thanks to their circumstances or composition, some space rocks are more desirable than others.

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Wealthy nations are carving up space and its riches — and leaving other countries behind
NASA/Neil A. Armstrong

Current trends suggest that powerful nations are defining the rules of resource use in space and satellite access in ways that will make it hard for developing nations to ever catch up.

A weather satellite accidentally caught Betelgeuse dimming
Taniguchi et al. 2022, Nature Astronomy

Weather imagery is surprisingly useful as astronomical data.

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Four facts about asteroids you may not know 
Anterovium/Shutterstock

Not all asteroids create extinctions. From space dust to crater makers, here are four interesting things you should know about them.

Ask Astro: Did other life exist before us?
Astronomy: Roen Kelly

If the solar system is only 4.6 billion years old but the universe has existed for 13.8 billion years, isn’t it likely that other forms of life existed well before us?

OBSERVING

The sky this week
Stephen Rahn

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

PICTURE OF THE DAY

Picture of the Day
Barry Burgess from Hubbards, Nova Scotia, Canada

The Milky Way arches above Paddy’s Island in Medford, Nova Scotia. The world’s highest tides in the Bay of Fundy have carved this island from the mainland and formed a stone arch by erosion.

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