Category Archives: Astronomy

OSIRIS-REx Touches Asteroid Bennu

Posted on October 22, 2020 by agogo22

NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft unfurled its robotic arm Oct. 20, 2020, and in a first for the agency, briefly touched an asteroid to collect dust and pebbles from the surface for delivery to … Continue reading →

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Earth Seems To Be Flying Through a Supernova Right Now

Posted on October 18, 2020 by agogo22

Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about a recent discovery that confirms that we are currently traveling through an ancient supernova remnant. More info: https://physics.anu.edu.au/news_event… Papers: https://www.pnas.org/content/117/36/2… https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/201… https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract… Support this channel … Continue reading →

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The moon is rusting!

Posted on October 8, 2020 by agogo22

Hi Spacecats, I’m Dr Maggie Lieu and welcome to my channel, where you can find all things space, astronomy and physics! In this week’s video, I talk about a new science result that suggests the Moon is rusting because of … Continue reading →

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NASA sent a map to space to help aliens find Earth. Now it needs an update. | National Geographic

Posted on September 18, 2020 by agogo22

A sparkling mass containing at least half a million stars—and some two dozen pulsars—the globular cluster known as 47 Tucanae is one of roughly 150 ancient stellar clumps orbiting the Milky Way galaxy. PHOTOGRAPH BY F. FERRARO, EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY … Continue reading →

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Australian telescope finds no signs of alien technology in 10 million star systems – ICRAR

Posted on September 15, 2020 by agogo22

A radio telescope in outback Western Australia has completed the deepest and broadest search at low frequencies for alien technologies, scanning a patch of sky known to include at least 10 million stars. Astronomers used the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) … Continue reading →

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Missing Matter

Posted on September 15, 2020 by agogo22

Astronomers have used a network of mysterious fast radio bursts (FRBs) to detect half of the Universe’s normal matter, missing until now. Credit: ICRAR with some footage supplied by CSIRO/Alex Cherney, ESO/y. Beletsky and ESO/R. Wesson.

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What Is The Lifetime Of A Photon?

Posted on September 7, 2020 by agogo22

As you may have read somewhere, light only takes 8 minutes to cover the distance between the Sun and the Earth. Yes, that’s an insanely short time, considering that we are talking about 150 million kilometres! But the light that … Continue reading →

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Hubble: 30 years unveiling the universe

Posted on September 7, 2020 by agogo22

Launched on 24 April 1990, and deployed from the Space Shuttle Discovery cargo bay a day later (25 April 1990), the telescope has given us a new perspective on the Universe. The joint NASA/ESA mission has shown us distant galaxies … Continue reading →

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Hubble: An Unexpected Journey [Eye in the Sky Video Miniseries]

Posted on September 7, 2020 by agogo22

Episode 2: An Unexpected Journey – With five servicing missions, upgraded instruments, and new ways of operating, Hubble is not the same telescope it was when it launched. Discover the innovative ways astronomers and engineers use Hubble today.   Video … Continue reading →

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11 Billion Years of Our Universe’s History Were Missing… Until Now

Posted on August 29, 2020 by agogo22

After 20 years of mapping the night sky, one project has filled in an 11 billion year gap in our knowledge of the universe’s history. » Subscribe to Seeker! http://bit.ly/subscribeseeker » Watch more Elements! http://bit.ly/ElementsPlaylist » Visit our shop at … Continue reading →

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Intertemporal Communication

Posted on August 25, 2020 by agogo22

There’s a plausible chance that we may be alone in the galaxy right now. But the odds that the galaxy has never, and will never, host other civilizations is far less likely. Today we explore the possibility of communicating through … Continue reading →

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We Were Wrong About the Shape of the Solar System

Posted on August 15, 2020 by agogo22

Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about a new discovery that suggests the shape of our solar system is different from what we always thought! Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s4155…

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