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Astronomers find Neptune-sized star orbiting young, nearby star - UPI.com
June 24 (UPI) -- After looking for more than a decade, astronomers have finally found an exoplanet in the young AU Microscopii star system.
With the help of NASA's TESS and Spitzer space telescopes, scientists identified a Neptune-sized world circling the young star, positioned just 32 light-years from our solar system. Advertisement
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"AU Mic is a small star, with only about 50 percent of the sun's mass," Jonathan Gagné, a former postdoctoral researcher at the University of Montreal who is now a scientific advisor at the Rio Tinto Alcan Planetarium, said in a press release.
NASA Space Station On-Orbit Status 22 June, 2020 - Spacewalk Preparations - SpaceRef
A U.S. spacesuit is pictured in the Quest airlock during a break in spacewalk preparations. Expedition 63 Commander Chris Cassidy and Flight Engineer Bob Behnken will exit the International Space Station on June 26 and July 1 for a pair of spacewalks to upgrade power systems on the orbiting laboratory. Credit: NASA. (June 21, 2020)
Two NASA astronauts are getting ready for Friday's spacewalk to continue upgrading power systems on the International Space Station.
News | Young Giant Planet Offers Clues to Formation of Exotic Worlds
For most of human history our understanding of how planets form and evolve was based on the eight (or nine) planets in our solar system. But over the last 25 years, the discovery of more than 4,000 exoplanets , or planets outside our solar system, changed all that.
Among the most intriguing of these distant worlds is a class of exoplanets called hot Jupiters. Similar in size to Jupiter, these gas-dominated planets orbit extremely close to their parent stars, circling them in as few as 18 hours. We have nothing like this in our own solar system, where the closest planets to the Sun are rocky and orbiting much farther away.
While you're here, how about this:
Two Venus-Zone Planets Found Orbiting Nearby Red Dwarf | Astronomy | Sci-News.com
Astronomers have discovered and validated two small exoplanets orbiting the nearby red dwarf star TOI-1266.
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TOI-1266 , also known as TIC 467179528 and 2MASS J13115955+6550017, is an M2-type dwarf star approximately 118 light-years away in the constellation of Draco.
It hosts at least two planets, TOI-1266b and c, which are much closer to the star than our planet is to the Sun.
The inner planet is 2.46 times bigger than Earth and belongs to a class of exoplanets called mini-Neptunes.
Redwire Acquires Made In Space, the Leader in On-orbit Space Manufacturing Technologies
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. , June 23, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Redwire, a new leader in mission critical space solutions and high reliability components for the next generation space economy, announced today that it has acquired Made In Space, Inc. ("MIS"), an innovative provider of industry-leading on-orbit space manufacturing technologies. The acquisition also includes Made In Space Europe, based in Luxembourg and a sister company to the U.S.
Founded in 2010, MIS was the first company to perform additive manufacturing in space and specializes in on-orbit manufacturing and assembly, zero gravity materials development, and human space exploration manufacturing solutions. Over the last 10 years, MIS has teamed with NASA on several space manufacturing projects including the Archinaut program, an in-space robotic manufacturing and assembly capability that builds large scale space assets on-orbit.
Telescope in orbit maps stunning X-ray image of the universe | Euronews
A breathtaking map of the sky has been captured by an X-ray telescope, revealing a universe that looks remarkably different to the one we see with traditional telescopes.
By viewing the universe in X-rays, the so-called "hot and energetic universe" can be seen, detailing objects that emit incredible heat, move at great speed, or are extremely dense.
These include rare phenomena such as merging neutron stars, stars being swallowed by black holes, and less rare but no less impressive - areas of extremely hot gas, where stars are born.
China 'becoming a true space power' as satellite launch completes its BeiDou system | South China
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