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More than 300 'minor planets' discovered in our solar system | indy100
Researchers have discovered over 300 new "minor planets" in our solar system using a revolutionary new technique.
These are minor planets located in the far reaches of the solar system… and there's bound to be even more – if projections are correct.
Using six years of data to collect high-precision images of the southern sky, the researchers predicted they'll discover 500 more TNOs.
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The number of TNOs you can find depends on how much of the sky you look at and what's the faintest thing you can find.
Reimagining our solar system's protective bubble, the heliosphere
The solar wind is constantly pushing out against this interstellar stuff. But the farther you get from the sun, the weaker that push becomes. After tens of billions of miles, the interstellar stuff starts to push back. The heliosphere ends where the two pushes balance out. But where is this boundary, exactly, and what does it look like?
Merav Opher, professor of astronomy at Boston University's College of Arts & Sciences and the Center for Space Physics, has been examining those questions for almost 20 years. And lately, her answers have been causing a stir.
New telescope design could capture distant celestial objects with unprecedented detail --
Researchers have designed a new camera that could allow hypertelescopes to image multiple stars at once. The enhanced telescope design holds the potential to obtain extremely high-resolution images of objects outside our solar system, such as planets, pulsars, globular clusters and distant galaxies.
In The Optical Society's (OSA) journal Optics Letters , Labeyrie and a multi-institutional group of researchers report optical modeling results that verify that their multi-field design can substantially extend the narrow field-of-view coverage of hypertelescopes developed to date.
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Rocky asteroid Ryugu got its rubble from a porous parent, study finds | Space
The rocky object that spawned the asteroid Ryugu may have been extraordinarily porous, a new study finds. The new discovery could shed light on how planets formed in the solar system.
The most common kind of asteroids found in the outer main asteroid belt are carbonaceous or C-type asteroids. Previous research suggested they are relics of the early solar system that hold troves of primordial material from the nebula that gave birth to the sun and its planets. This makes research into C-type asteroids essential when it comes to understanding planetary formation.
In one of the Solar System's hottest places, scientists figure out how ice formed
That is hot . But it isn't so hot that water ice cannot still form on the planet's surface. And now, scientists think they have discovered how Mercury manages to be both one of the hottest places in the Solar System and yet still have surface ice.
The reason may be to do with the wild temperature swings Mercury experiences over the course of its day: As night falls on the planet, Mercury reveals its more chill side, with temperatures dropping below minus 180 degrees Celsuis.
Breakthrough Solar System Uses Recycled Aluminum to Store Energy—Without Batteries
A new renewable energy startup company has come up with a low-cost, zero-emissions solution to the thorny issue surrounding what happens when the sun isn’t shining and the wind isn’t blowing.
"Batteries are very expensive to store power for a 24 hour period," says Jonas Eklind, CEO of Azelio, the Swedish energy startup that has potentially solved this problem for good. "If you want to store a lot of renewable energy, the most cost efficient way of storing this is thermal energy."
139 Minor Planets Found at Edge of Solar System | Newsmax.com
Scientists have discovered 139 previously unknown minor planets at the edge of the solar system beyond the orbit of Neptune, according to a report in Newsweek.
Researchers made the discovery as they analyzed data collected over a four-year period by the Dark Energy Survey, a project that was not designed to look for objects such as minor planets but rather to probe dark energy in the southern sky that was meant to further understand the dynamics of the universe's expansion.
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Our Solar Dynamics Observatory keeps a constant eye on the Sun — and this year, it's celebrating 10 years in space.… https://t.co/xoRYiBwEb9 NASASun (from NASA Goddard, Greenbelt, MD) Mon Mar 16 15:59:43 +0000 2020
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