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Feb 23, 2023

NASA aims to send a lander that can survive Venus’ crushing atmosphere

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Firstly, the space agency must develop a battery that can withstand Venus’ hellish conditions.

You may be surprised to learn that humans have sent several landers to Venus’ surface. The Soviet Venera missions, for example, transmitted the first-ever image from another planet on October 20, 1975, after sending its Venera 9 lander to the surface of Venus.

That mission lasted less than two hours on the planet’s surface due to the immense atmospheric pressure and scorching temperatures on Earth’s so-called evil twin.

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Feb 23, 2023

Uh, James Webb Found Some Galaxies That Technically Shouldn’t Exist

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And now we’re rethinking what we know about the ancient universe.

Feb 23, 2023

Scientists make a rare find: A Solar system with three Super-Earths

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Three Super-Earths and two Super-Mercuries, a type of planet that is extraordinarily rare and distinct, haʋe Ƅeen found in a star systeм Ƅy astronoмers. Super-Mercuries are so uncoммon—only eight haʋe Ƅeen found so far—that they are extreмely rare.

ESPRESSO’s spectrograph detected two ‘super-Mercury’ worlds in the star systeм HD 23472. Astronoмers haʋe discoʋered that these planets are extreмely rare. This study, puƄlished in Astronoмy &aмp; Astrophysics, looked at how the coмposition of tiny planets ʋaries with planet position, teмperature, and star attriƄutes.

The reason for oƄserʋing this planetary systeм, according to Susana Barros, a researcher at the Institute of Astrophysics e Ciências do Espaço (IA) who led the project, is to characterise the coмposition of sмall planets and to study the transition Ƅetween haʋing an atмosphere and not haʋing an atмosphere.

Feb 23, 2023

James Webb Telescope discovers six massive ‘universe breaker’ galaxies

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They’re far bigger than was believed possible for galaxies so soon after the dawn of the universe — leaving scientists stunned.

Feb 22, 2023

James Webb Space Telescope has discovered evidence of massive ancient galaxies that science says shouldn’t exist

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The presence of such massive galaxies lurking in the early Universe contradicts current cosmological models.

Feb 22, 2023

Astronomers May Have Just Solved a Salty Mystery at Jupiter’s Most Famous Moon

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Europa had features that astronomers couldn’t previously quite figure out.


Europa had red stripe features that astronomers couldn’t previously quite figure out. But it ends up it may be an unusual form of brine and fodder for future studies.

Feb 22, 2023

A Globalist Billionaire Pitches Geoengineering While Others Propose Putting Particles into the Atmosphere and Space

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Arctic and save Greenland’s glaciers.

George Soros proposes geoengineering project to save Greenland’s glaciers.


Less problematic geoengineering already is underway with CO2 direct air capture. But more controversial sunlight blocking is being proposed.

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Feb 22, 2023

Free-space optics (FSO) and systems are uniquely valuable in enabling fast and secure connectivity, both in terrestrial and nonterrestrial networks

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With major advancements in space optics over the last 20 years, ultrahigh-bandwidth signals now regularly ping back and forth over great distances, providing a communications canopy that extends over the entire globe.

Feb 21, 2023

‘Hidden’ planet at edge of our solar system could be five times the size of Earth

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A huge planet that has never been seen by astronomers could be lurking, almost invisibly, at the dark edges of our solar system, some scientists believe.

By 1,846, astronomers had pinpointed all the eight main planets – and have since found several other ’dwarf planets’ including Pluto.

But the search goes on for the mysterious ‘ninth planet’ which is thought to sit far beyond Neptune in our solar system, said space expert Sara Webb.

Feb 21, 2023

Quantum Telescopes Could Offer Clearer Views of Our Solar System and Beyond

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Scientists want to use quantum mechanics to capture higher-resolution images of the night sky.


For the purposes of astronomy, the two beams are collected by two telescopes that are separated by some distance (called baseline interferometry). But despite its effectiveness, classic interferometry is subject to some limitations. Andrei Nomerotski, an astrophysicist with the BNL and a co-author on the paper, explained to Universe Today via email.

“Interferometry is a way to increase the effective aperture of telescopes and to improve the angular resolution or astrometric precision,” he said. “The main difficulty here is to maintain the stability of this optical path to very high precision, which should be much smaller than the photon wavelength, to preserve the photon’s phase. This limits the practical baselines to a few hundred meters.”

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