Sunday, February 27, 2022

Day of Discovery: Close-Knit Family of 7 Earth-Size Planets

Day of Discovery: Close-Knit Family of 7 Earth-Size Planets

This artist’s concept portrays the seven rocky exoplanets within the TRAPPIST-1 system, located 40 light-years from Earth. Credit: NASA and JPL/Caltech

Five years ago, astronomers revealed a spectacular collection of other worlds: the TRAPPIST-1 system.

Publisher: SciTechDaily
Date: 2022-02-23T06:34:35-08:00
Author: Mike O
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Castium Revelio: Galaxies and Planets Far, Far Away

by Neave Williamson · Published February 26, 2022 · Updated February 26, 2022

Welcome to this week’s edition of MuggleNet’s Casting News !

Helena Bonham Carter (Bellatrix Lestrange) has joined a campaign championing taking time for your mental health. The Take a Moment 2021 campaign finished only at the end of last year, but we've already got reports that Carter will be joining this year's campaign.

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Publisher: MuggleNet
Date: 2022-02-26T22:44:41 00:00
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The moon meets up with Mercury and Saturn early Monday morning | Space

You may be able to watch the moon cluster up with ringed Saturn and fleeting Mercury on Monday (Feb. 28), but it will be a considerable challenge.

The three worlds will be clustered extra-close to the southeastern horizon as the sun is rising. Saturn is at magnitude 0.7 and Mercury at a brighter -0.1. (For perspective, most people can see stars down to magnitude 6 in dark-sky conditions.)

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Publisher: Space.com
Date: 2022-02-27T12:14:38Z
Author: Elizabeth Howell
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NASA's Roman telescope could spot Earth-like planets | Digital Trends

The James Webb Space Telescope might be grabbing all the headlines right now, but NASA has big plans for another space-based telescope too: The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope.

Roman will be armed with a coronagraph instrument which is designed to block out light from very bright objects like stars to allow observation of the planets around them, opening the possibility of directly imaging planets.

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Publisher: Digital Trends
Date: 2022-02-26T15:41:08 00:00
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Skywatch: Pairs of planets will come together in series of stunning conjunctions | Honolulu

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured the tattered remains of a supernova explosion known as Cassiopeia A in the Milky Way galaxy. Astronomers at Hawaii observatories are also monitoring supernovae, with some surprising insights.

Kekaomakali'i (the ­Canoe Bailer) is now filling the western region of the sky. In this starline we can make out the stars that make up Kaheiheionakeiki, also well known as Orion the Hunter. Read more

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Publisher: Honolulu Star-Advertiser
Date: 2022-02-27T10:04:00 00:00
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See the moon align with Venus and Mars in Sunday's morning sky | Space

Bright Venus, red Mars and the crescent moon are all lining up for a sky show early in the morning Sunday (Feb. 27).

If you're up and available after 4 a.m. local time, be sure to head outside and look to the southeast. By the time the sun rises in New York City at 6:14 a.m., for example, the three worlds will be 19 degrees above the horizon and well visible above many buildings and ground obstacles.

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Publisher: Space.com
Date: 2022-02-26T11:00:48Z
Author: Elizabeth Howell
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Science in a Minute: Not All Planets Can Form Substantially Sized Moons
Publisher: VOA
Date: 3286EE554B6F672A6F2E608C02343C0E
Author: Rick Pantaleo
Twitter: @voanews
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Dance of Harmony in Intriguing TOI-178 Multi-planetary System | astrobites

This guest post was written by Sayyed Ali Rafi, an astronomy student from Indonesia currently pursuing a Master’s degree at the University of Tokyo, Japan.

First Author's Institution:  Observatoire Astronomique de l'Université de Genéve, Chemin Pegasi 51, Versoix, Switzerland

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Publisher: astrobites
Date: 2022-02-26T10:00:00-05:00
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