According to the European Space Agency (ESA), CHEOPS will observe bright stars that are already known to be orbited by planets.
"Cheops is 710 kilometres (440 miles) away, exactly where we wanted it to be, it's absolutely perfect," Didier Queloz, 2019 Nobel Physics Prize winner, told AFP in French Guiana, where the launch took place.
"This is really an exceptional moment in European space history and in the history of the exoplanets."
Many things are taking place:
The NBA Now Orbits Around Giannis - The Ringer
Giannis Antetokounmpo isn't here right now. Maybe that's for the best. Sometimes, Giannis overwhelms the world around him, contorting and stretching his body in ways that can be admired or feared, but never really understood.
Finley is 15, blond and tall for his age, wearing a Giannis no. 34 black Bucks jersey. He's from South Bend, but his parents drove him two and a half hours south to Indianapolis for this game, as a birthday present. "He's so good," Finley says of Giannis, summing up the prevailing opinion. "As soon as you watch him you can't help but love him."
SpaceX Falcon 9 Launches Heavyweight Satellite Into Orbit, Nails Rocket Landing | Space
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — SpaceX launched its 13th mission of the year Monday (Dec. 16) as a twice-flown Falcon 9 booster took to the skies for the third time carrying a satellite for a Singapore-based startup and Japanese broadband provider.
The Falcon 9 rocket lit up the skies over Florida's Space Coast as it carried its payload, a heavyweight communications satellite, into space from Space Launch Complex 40 here at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station . Liftoff occurred at 7:10 p.m. EST (0010 GMT)
Boeing is set to launch its new Starliner spacecraft on its first flight to orbit - The Verge
On the morning of Friday, December 20th, an Atlas V rocket is set to launch to the International Space Station from Florida, carrying a spacecraft that's never flown before. The CST-100 Starliner is a new passenger capsule developed by Boeing to take crews of up to seven people to low Earth orbit. No people will be on board the Starliner for this particular mission, but the flight could pave the way for the first riders to fly on the capsule sometime next year.
While you're here, how about this:
Xconomy: Orbiting Organoids: Research in Space to Unveil New Neurodegeneration Insight
Collaborating with the New York Stem Cell Foundation (NYSCF) Research Institute on the other side of the country, the two teams have been working together for more than two years, exchanging and sharing technology to develop patient-derived, induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) organoid models.
Studying the 3D models in microgravity, researchers are able to observe cell interaction, gene expression, and other developments not seen in a regular lab.
Hot Super-Earth Found Orbiting Red Dwarf Star Gliese 1252 | Astronomy | Sci-News.com
Using data from NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and multiple ground-based telescopes, astronomers have discovered an ultra-short-period exoplanet orbiting a red dwarf star called Gliese 1252.
An artist's impression of the super-Earth Gliese 1252b and its parent star. Image credit: Sci-News.com.
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Also known as GJ 1252, TIC 370133522, TOI 1078, L 210-70 and LHS 492, the star has a mass 38% that of the Sun, a radius 39% that of the Sun, and an apparent magnitude of 12.2.
The Asteroids Might Remember a Forgotten Giant Planet | Space
The formation of the solar system is a deeply perplexing puzzle. We're left with clues all over the place: the positions and sizes of the planets, the members of the asteroid belt, Kuiper Belt, and Oort Cloud and the populations of moons around the planets. But how did we get to this from a vague disk of gas and dust billions of years ago?
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Billions of years ago, our solar system was just a bunch of random gas and dust floating around as a nebula. As it collapsed, it formed a rapidly spinning merry-go-round of a flat disk around the young and hungry proto-sun. Over the course of 100 million years, that disk somehow became the planets and other smaller denizens of our home system.
New names for 112 exoplanets and their stars | Human World | EarthSky
Hundreds of thousands of people from 112 countries helped select names for distant exoplanets and their stars. So, for example, the exoplanet formerly known as HAT-P-36b – about 1,000 light-years away – now also carries the name Bran, from an Irish legend.
Simulated size of newly named exoplanet HAT-P-36b, now named Bran. Its star has a new name, too: Tuiren. Both Bran and Tuiren are names from an Irish legend. Here, you see Bran’s estimated size in comparison to planets in our own solar system. Image via Open Exoplanet Catalogue .
Happening on Twitter
Europe's exoplanet hunter set for blast-off https://t.co/DiwZMsoilC https://t.co/FsmA4OjFAM AFP (from France) Wed Dec 18 02:32:26 +0000 2019
#UPDATE Europe's #CHEOPS planet-hunting satellite blasted off aboard a Soyuz rocket from French Guiana on Wednesday… https://t.co/jWqdDXexth AFP (from France) Wed Dec 18 12:15:00 +0000 2019
And it's off! The European Space Agency's Cheops telescope launched this morning after yesterday's attempt was s… https://t.co/hJNVMsB59l dw_europe (from Brussels, Belgium) Wed Dec 18 09:30:05 +0000 2019
Europe's exoplanet hunter set for blast-off from Earth https://t.co/ZYP177a0eU physorg_com Wed Dec 18 08:44:02 +0000 2019
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