Schulze-Makuch, a professor with WSU and the Technical University in Berlin, said, “The study could help focus future observation efforts, such as from NASA’s James Web Space Telescope, the LUVIOR space observatory, and the European Space Agency’s PLATO space telescope.”
For this study, scientists collaborated with astronomers Rene Heller of the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research and Edward Guinan of Villanova University. They aimed to determine superhabitability criteria and search among the 4,500 known exoplanets beyond our solar system .
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As Mars Makes Closest Approach To Earth In 15 Years, You Can Spot The Solar System's Largest
Orbital view of the Olympus Mons volcano on Mars, the largest known volcano in the solar system. It ... [+] measures 375 miles across at its base, and the walls of the volcano tower 15 miles above the plains of Mars. | Location: Olympus Mons, Mars. (Photo by © CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)
This and the coming week, from October 6th till October 13th, Mars will be 38.6 million miles (or 62.1 million kilometers) away from Earth, the two planets closest approach in 15 years. The closest possible encounter between Mars and Earth happens when Earth is furthest away from the Sun and Mars is closest to the Sun. Earth's previous closest approach with Mars was recorded in 2003 when Mars was 34.6 million miles (55.7 million km) away.
Solar Operations Solutions aims to streamline solar system interconnection
Solar Operations Solutions (Solar-Ops) has developed myPV ClearSky Interconnection , one of several pad-mount and SCADA products that are specifically designed to help developers and EPCs simplify the construction and operation of large PV solar facilities.
In early 2020, the North Carolina-based solar developer Pine Gate Renewables took decisive steps to streamline standardization of engineering and procurement across a portfolio of 14 projects in Michigan, which represents a fraction of the 500 MW Pine Gate plans to develop in the state.
New research explores how super flares affect planets' habitability: Largest ever sample of super
Researchers from UNC-Chapel Hill have for the first time measured the temperature of a large sample of super flares from stars, and the flares' likely ultraviolet emissions. Their findings, published Oct. 5 ahead of print in Astrophysical Journal , will allow researchers to put limits on the habitability of planets that are targets of upcoming planet-finding missions.
Howard and colleagues at UNC-Chapel Hill used the UNC-Chapel Hill Evryscope telescope array and NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) to simultaneously observe the largest sample of super flares.
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An exoplanet in close proximity to the solar system - Somag News
About six light years from the Sun, the red dwarf named Barnard’s Star is the closest stellar neighbor to our Solar System and the fastest moving star in the night sky. At the same time, its orbit is truly dramatically shaky. This shake can be attributed to his old age.
It is hoped that the star was born about 10 billion years ago, twice as old as the Sun. However, its mass is only 16% of that of the Sun. But astronomers prefer a different explanation. An article published in the journal Nature, combining 20 years of research, says there is a “99%” chance that the orbit of the Barnard Star will be pulled by a nearby exoplanet.
Astronomers find evidence planets start to form while infant stars are still growing
In systems older than 1,000,000 years, after the proto-stars have finished gathering most of their mass, rings of dust have been previously detected in great numbers. IRS 63 is different: at under 500,000 years old, it is less than half the age of other young stars with dust rings and the proto-star will still grow significantly in mass. "The rings in the disk around IRS 63 are so young," emphasizes Segura-Cox.
Planets face some serious obstacles during their earliest stages of formation. They have to grow from tiny dust particles, smaller than household dust here on Earth. "The rings in the disk of IRS 63 are vast pile-ups of dust, ready to combine into planets," notes co-author Anika Schmiedeke at MPE. However, even after the dust clumps together to form a planet embryo, the still-forming planet could disappear by spiraling inwards and being consumed by the central proto-star.
New study poses question about where the solar system's gold comes from
They say if you spread out all the gold ever mined from the Earth in all of history, it would only cover a football field 18 inches deep.
Now when you wrap you mind around that image, it doesn't seem like very much, especially when you digest the fact that the solar system is literally brimming with gold but scientists can't quite figure out where all this hard-to-make metal is being created.
The yellow-hued precious element is thought to have been first deposited here on our planet by storms of interstellar dust and asteroids billions of years ago. The majority of this gold has been discovered deep in Earth's crust , and it's the earliest-recorded metal ever mined and used by humans, dating back to its use in ancient Egyptian jewelry circa the year 3,000 B.C.
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