BOULDER, Colo. (CBS4) — Astronomers have discovered new hints of a giant, scorching-hot planet orbiting Vega , one of the brightest stars in the night sky.
If the team’s findings bear out, the alien world would rank as the second hottest exoplanet known to science, with average surface temperatures of 5,390 degrees Fahrenheit.
Additionally, the alien planet would orbit so close to Vega that its years would last less than two-and-a-half Earth days.
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The first orbiting space hotel could be open by 2027 - Domus
"With voyager station we don't want to have to develop any new technologies, we want it to be technologies that are already in hand, it's just that we are applying them in new ways to get a structure and a facility like that", said Tom Spilker, the company's CTO.
With a clear display of Silicon Valley ingenuity, Orbital Assembly says that work on the station will start in 2025, with an expected deployment date in 2027. The company won't probably meet its wildly optimistic goal, but one can still wonder and enjoy the nice sci-fi inspired renderings while waiting for the 6th season of The Expanse on Amazon Prime.
A Company Is Building Spacecraft to Clean Up Space Debris | IE
A company called Kurs Orbital has pledged to take care of this issue . " Kurs Orbital expands human activities beyond Earth by providing spacecraft on-orbit servicing," states the firm's website.
Leading this exciting and much-needed new company is Volodymyr Usov, the former head of the Ukrainian space agency, and the company plans to launch a demonstration vehicle as early as 2023.
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It is estimated by market research firm NSR that in-orbit servicing, such as orbit relocation, de-orbiting, refueling, components replacement, and repair will be a $3 billion business over the next decade.
Skoltech and MIT researchers identify optimal human landing system architectures to land on the
Researchers from Skoltech and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have analyzed several dozen options to pick the best one in terms of performance and costs for the 'last mile' of a future mission to the Moon - actually delivering astronauts to the lunar surface and back up to the safety of the orbiting lunar station. The paper was published in the journal Acta Astronautica .
Ever since December 1972, when the crew of Apollo 17 left the lunar surface, humans have been eager to return to the Moon. In 2017, the US government launched the Artemis program, which intends to bring "the first woman and the next man" to the lunar south pole by 2024. The Artemis mission will use a new orbital platform, dubbed the Lunar Gateway, which is going to be a permanent space station from which reusable modules will bring astronauts back to the Moon.
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Alien Star System --"Found Orbiting a Very Young Version of our Own Sun" | The Daily Galaxy
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"This discovery is a snapshot of an environment that is very similar to our Solar System, but at a much earlier stage of its evolution," says Alexander Bohn , at Leiden University in the Netherlands, about the first ever image of a young, Sun-like star located about 300 light-years away in the Southern constellation of Musca (The Fly) in July of 2020 by the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO's VLT).
Bad Astronomy | GJ 1132b, a hot exoplanet, lost its atmosphere & grew a new one
A nearby rocky planet orbiting very close to its host star may be sporting a second-generation atmosphere: It used to be more like Neptune, but the star blew the planet's air away, and what we see now are noxious gases released by a magma ocean afterwards.
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Planets form from a disk of material orbiting a young star. Farther out, where it's cooler, are lighter atoms and molecules like hydrogen, helium, and ices; while closer in it's too hot for those materials. Planets that form farther out tend to become gas giants, growing large and drawing in thick atmospheres.
Astronomers discover 3 planets orbiting younger Sun-like star
An international team of astronomers has discovered a trio of hot worlds larger than Earth orbiting a much younger version of our Sun called TOI 451.
The system resides in the recently discovered Pisces-Eridanus stream, a collection of stars less than 3 per cent the age of our solar system that stretches across one-third of the sky.
The researchers believe that the newly discovered planetary system, detailed in The Astronomical Journal, will provide researchers with the rare chance to study a group of growing planets.
US astronaut launching next month may spend year in space | WCYB
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