astrophysics
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This Exoplanet Is So Hot, It Apparently Tears Apart Water Molecules
There’s an exoplanet whose surface is so hot, it rips apart water molecules. It’s almost a star, but not quite; it’s an ultra-hot, Jupiter-like world located around 880 light years from Earth.
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Report: NASA Needs To Get Moving On Its Plan To Snatch Some Mars Dust
NASA doesn’t just randomly decide what telescopes and satellites to shoot into space and what planet to study next. Instead, a committee of outside scientists drafts a set of goals and recommendations in what’s called a decadal survey. And though it notes some financial setbacks, a midterm review of the last decadal survey report says…
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Our Neighbour Andromeda May Have Cannibalised Another Galaxy
Our nearest galactic neighbour, the spiral Andromeda galaxy, seems to have a history of cannibalism. New research suggests that Andromeda gobbled up another large galaxy some two billion years ago.
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New South African Telescope Releases Epic Image Of The Galactic Centre
You’re looking at the centre of our galactic home, the Milky Way, as imaged by 64 radio telescopes in the South African wilderness. Scientists released this image today to inaugurate the completed MeerKAT radio telescope. But these scopes form part of an even more ambitious project: The Square Kilometre Array, a joint effort to build…