This Halloween season, NASA wants to open your eyes to the glorious spookiness all around us in the Milky Way galaxy.
The space agency has just released two new "Galaxy of Horrors" posters, which highlight a few of the most bizarre and inhospitable alien planets that scientists have discovered! NASA Unveils 'Galaxy of Horrors' Exoplanet Posters for ...www.geek.com /news/ ...galaxy - ...exoplanet- posters -for...The hilarious posters are featured in a vintage horror ...astronomical science series dubbed Galaxy of Horrors . Galaxy of Horrors , a fun project created by artists and scientists, was...!! And NASA created a fun 2-minute video, styled like a trailer for a 1950s horror movie, to promote the posters.
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One of the featured worlds is HD 189733 b , a blue planet where winds whip sharp silicate-shard rain through the air at up to 5,400 mph (6,700 km/h).
"If human or robotic explorers could travel 63 light-years from Earth to get there, they would never survive this planetary hellscape," NASA officials wrote in a statement about the exotic exoplanet.
The other poster focuses on Poltergeist, Draugr and Phobetor, three planets that orbit the pulsar PSR B1257+12, which lies about 2,000 light-years from Earth. Pulsars are fast-spinning stellar corpses that emit beams of radiation from their poles; these beams appear to pulse because of the rotation, which gives pulsars their name.
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NASA chief says 'Pluto should be a planet' | Fox News
“I am here to tell you, as the NASA Administrator, I believe Pluto should be a planet,” he said, to applause during a wide-ranging speech at the International Astronautical Congress in Washington D.C. Friday.
Bridenstine later responded to a question on his Pluto stance by citing its buried ocean , its moons and its multilayered atmosphere. “I like there being nine planets, how about that?” he added.
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Pluto lost its planet status in 2006 when it was controversially demoted to “dwarf planet” by the International Astronomical Union.
This is not the first time that Bridenstine has voiced his desire to see Pluto become a planet again. "You can write that the NASA administrator declared Pluto a planet once again! NASA reveals 'galaxy of horrors' exoplanet posters in time ...fox6now.com /2019/10/29/ ...galaxy - ...exoplanet- posters -in...Just in time for Halloween , NASA released two new posters on Tuesday showcasing exoplanets HD 189733 b and PSR B1257+12 c , existing in "a place only sophisticated telescopes" could reach in a "...!! I’m sticking by that, it’s the way I learned it and I’m committed to it,” he said during a recent speech at the University of Colorado.
This spherical asteroid might be our solar system's tiniest dwarf planet | Popular Science
Starwatch: Infusion of new planets in November | Chanhassen Opinion | swnewsmedia.com
Mars begins November as a dim reddish dot close above the east-southeastern horizon. Look for it just before the day starts to break! 'Galaxy of Horrors!' NASA Posters Highlight Spooky Alien ...weeklyreviewer.com/ ...Two new free, downloadable posters from NASA 's Exoplanet Exploration Program feature horrifyingly inhospitable alien planets.(Image credit: NASA /JPL-Caltech)Thi ' Galaxy of Horrors!' NASA Posters Highlight Spooky Alien Planets (Video) - WeeklyReviewer!! Don't confuse it with the bright star Arcturus, which is also near the horizon early in the month! NASA Unveils 'Galaxy of Horrors' Exoplanet Posters for ...galaxy - ...exoplanet- posters -for...The hilarious posters are featured in a vintage horror ...astronomical science series dubbed Galaxy of Horrors . Galaxy of Horrors , a fun project created by artists and scientists, was produced by NASA's Exoplanet Exploration Program Office at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California.!! As the days go by, Arcturus climbs rapidly away from Mars while Spica, the brightest star in Virgo, clears the horizon and heads toward the planet! NASA's Latest Exoplanet Posters Are a Halloween Treat www.jpl.nasa.gov ...Just in time for Halloween, NASA has released two new posters celebrating some truly terrifying exoplanets, or planets outside our solar system. Free to download, the entertaining posters recall vintage horror movie advertisements but have a decidedly astronomical focus. Dubbed Galaxy of Horrors ...!! During the second week of the month, Spica climbs past Mars on the right.
By the last week of November, Mercury will have popped into the sky below Mars. For several days between about the 22nd and 27th, Spica, Mars and Mercury will be nearly equally spaced, in that order top-to-bottom, along a diagonal line.
Meanwhile, Venus is slipping into the evening sky. The brightest of planets, it comes out in the southwestern twilight not far below Jupiter. But while Venus is climbing, Jupiter is falling, and on the 24th the planets come closest to each other, with Venus just to the lower left of Jupiter. On the 28th, a young crescent moon appears above Venus, en route to a rendezvous the next night with Saturn. In mid-December the ringed planet has its own brush with Venus.
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A NASA report finds planetary contamination rules may be too strict | Science News
Some policies for protecting the moon, Mars and other places in the solar system from contamination by visiting missions may be too strict.
At least one astrobiologist cautioned, however, against relaxing current guidelines too much. Spacecraft landing in areas deemed sterile could still contaminate areas that are potentially interesting for astrobiology, says John Rummel of the SETI Institute in Mountain View, Calif. If a lunar probe crashes on the moon's surface, "you end up with material that's taken into the lunar atmosphere and deposited in the cold traps at the south and north anyway," he says. "You don't even have to land at the south pole to affect [it]."
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Astrobiologist Alberto Fairén of Cornell University welcomes the possibility of adding nuance to the "extremely restrictive" protection guidelines for Mars. He and colleagues recommended a few high-priority astrobiology zones in Advances in Space Research in March, including lakes of liquid water possibly hidden under ice sheets ( SN: 12/17/18 ).
Starwatch: New planets appear in November | Pine Journal
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