ScientistPankaj: Behold! See our closest view of Jupiter's ocean moon Europa in 22 years

Saturday, October 1, 2022

Behold! See our closest view of Jupiter's ocean moon Europa in 22 years

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Behold! See our closest view of Jupiter's ocean moon Europa in 22 years

NASA's Jupiter-gazing spacecraft just got a rare closeup of an icy world.

The Juno probe made the closest pass in 22 years of Jupiter's icy moon Europa on Thursday (Sept. 29), providing the best view of the ocean world since the NASA's Galileo spacecraft flew by it 2000.

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SpaceX, NASA to study use of Dragon to visit Hubble Space Telescope

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Astronauts could visit the Hubble Space Telescope again someday, this time on a private spacecraft. The agency announced Thursday that it's conducting a joint study with SpaceX to look into sending a Dragon capsule to Hubble, to boost the observatory's orbit and perhaps assist it in other ways as well.

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New evidence for liquid water on Mars

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Scientists have uncovered further evidence that liquid water exists beneath the ice cap at the southern pole of Mars and it may mean that the planet is geothermally active.

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POLL QUESTION:

Space Quiz: What part of Jupiter's moon Europa makes it tantalizing in the search for life?

Learn the answer here!

An underground volcano.

A frozen ocean.

A comet impact crater.

It's own small moon.

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Skywatching

International Observe the Moon Night 2022: Don't miss these livestreams on Oct. 1

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Celebrate our lunar neighbor this Saturday (Oct. 1) with International Observe the Moon Night 2022! The worldwide event takes place every year and provides "opportunities to learn about lunar science and exploration, observe celestial bodies and honor personal and cultural connections to the moon," according to NASA(opens in new tab). Last year's festivities attracted almost 500,000 participants from 122 countries, spanning every continent.

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See the crescent moon shine above the red star Antares tonight

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The waxing moon will be just a thumb's width above the bright star in the constellation of Scorpius which is often called 'the heart of the scorpion.

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Science & Astronomy

Hubble Space Telescope spots protective shield against greedy Milky Way

(NASA, ESA, Leah Hustak (STScI))

An odd shield of supercharged gas protects dwarf galaxies from being ripped apart by the gravitational pull of the Milky Way, 30 years' worth of observations by the Hubble Space Telescope reveal.

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The Milky Way is 'rippling' like a pond, and scientists may finally know why

(NASA JPL-Caltech R. Hurt)

Imagine the Milky Way's 100 billion stars as a flat, tranquil pool of water. Now, picture someone dropping a stone the size of 400 million suns into that water. The tranquility is shattered. Wave after wave of energy ripples across the galaxy's surface, jostling and bouncing its stars in a chaotic dance that takes eons to calm.

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Spaceflight

Firefly Aerospace aborts orbital test flight just after engine ignition

(Firefly Aerospace/Everyday Astronaut)

Firefly Aerospace's second orbital launch attempt will have to wait for another day. The company planned to send its Alpha rocket to orbit on a test flight early Friday morning (Sept. 30) from California's Vandenberg Space Force Base, and it ticked off a lot of boxes along the way — including engine ignition.

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Technology

Advanced AI discovers a treasure trove of gravitational lenses

(AGEL Survey)

Advanced artificial intelligence has identified thousands of possible "gravitational lenses" — warps in space-time predicted by Albert Einstein — promising to enhance our understanding of dark matter and the evolution of galaxies.

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