Amateur astronomer Kai Ly is on a roll. They rediscovered four “lost” Jupiter moons last year. Now, Ly has located a previously unknown moon orbiting the biggest planet in our solar system.
“I’m proud to say that this is the first planetary moon discovered by an amateur astronomer!” they posted June 30 in a message at the Minor Planet Mailing List (MPML) , an online community of the world’s leading amateur astronomers.
Russia delays detaching old space station docking port while testing new research module in orbit
Update for July 23: The Pirs undocking has been pushed back another day, to Sunday (July 25).
The departure of Russia's Pirs module from the International Space Station has been delayed until Saturday (July 24) as engineers continue to conduct in-flight tests on its replacement.
Student becomes first amateur astronomer to discover a moon orbiting Jupiter | Daily Mail Online
An amateur astronomer has discovered a new moon orbiting Jupiter, the first time a citizen scientist has done so.
Amateur star gazer Kai Ly poured over data collected in February 2003 taken by researchers at the University of Hawaii and found a new member of the Carme group, a group of 22 other small moons that orbit the gas giant in the opposite direction of its spin.
NASA Invites Media to Next SpaceX Cargo Launch to Space Station | NASA
Europe's Mars orbiter finds no trace of methane on Red Planet | Space
Scientists were hunting for telltale signs of methane gas in data from a spacecraft called the Trace Gas Orbiter , which arrived at Mars in 2016 as part of the ExoMars mission by the European Space Agency (ESA) and Russia's Roscosmos.
But despite gathering over two and a half years worth of measurements from one of the instruments (called the Atmospheric Chemistry Suite, or ACS) and over a year's worth of data from the other (known as Nadir Occultation MArs Discovery, or NOMAD) the researchers found no trace of their target
Retired NASA Engineers Return to Fix Hubble Telescope | Smart News | Smithsonian Magazine
When a 31-year-old space computer doesn’t work as well as it used to, it’s time to call in the folks who built the system decades ago.
That’s exactly what scientists repairing NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope did when it failed in June.
“That’s one of the benefits of a program that’s been running for over 30 years: the incredible amount of experience and expertise,” says Nzinga Tull, Hubble systems anomaly response manager, in a NASA press release .
NASA's InSight Reveals the Deep Interior of Mars
Clouds drift over the dome-covered seismometer, known as SEIS, belonging to NASA's InSight lander, on Mars. › Full image and caption
Three papers published today share new details on the crust, mantle, and molten core of the Red Planet.
Before NASA's InSight spacecraft touched down on Mars in 2018, the rovers and orbiters studying the Red Planet concentrated on its surface. The stationary lander's seismometer has changed that, revealing details about the planet's deep interior for the first time.
Can rocky worlds exist between alien gas giants? | Space
A wild variety of star systems exist in the nearby regions of the Milky Way, and astronomers are eager to know where they might find an "Earth 2.0," or an Earth-size exoplanet that has liquid water and orbits in the habitable zone of its parent star.
Now, new simulations show that it's possible for an Earth-like planet to arise in pretty much the last place you might look: between the orbits of two giant worlds. And there may be such an example right on our doorstep.
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Amateur astronomer discovers a tiny moon around Jupiter https://t.co/6kCrdF7jwd https://t.co/jDTz2RVdVR SPACEdotcom (from NYC) Thu Jul 22 14:00:23 +0000 2021
لأول مرة، هاوي فلكي يكتشف قمرًا (صغيرًا) للمشتري (ليصل العدد الى 80، ولا شك أكثر في المستقبل).… https://t.co/C9xPLxfa5Y NidhalGuessoum (from Sharjah, UAE) Wed Jul 21 05:39:07 +0000 2021
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