The Carnival of Space 588 is up at Cosmoquest. We will look at the highlights of two featured articles and then list the other articles in the survey of the week in space news. Featured – SpaceX Starlink Satellite Network – Pushing Technology for Low Latency Universe Today – SpaceX Gives More Details on how …
1. Universe Today – Not all the Earth’s Water Came From Comets A new model suggests that the inevitable formation of water would likely occur on any sufficiently large rocky exoplanets in extrasolar systems. Previously, we thought that the only planets that could have life on them would have to be in a solar system …
< href="https://www.urban-astronomer.com/news-and-updates/carnival-of-space-586/">The Carnival of Space 586 is up at Urban Astronomer. Universe Today – Exoplanets Will Need Both Continents and Oceans to Form Complex Life Universe Today – Planetary Scientists Have Chosen a Few Landing Sites for the Mars 2020 Rover Nextbigfuture – Many anomalies of interstellar Oumuamua are explained if it was an alien …
1. Universe Today – An Extremely Large Hole has Been Dug for the Extremely Large Telescope European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) is a next-generation ground telescope. It will have a primary mirror measuring 39 meters (128 feet) in diameter. The ELT will collect roughly 200 times as much as light as the …
The Carnival of Space 584 is up at the Chandra Xray Space Telescope Blog. Universe Today – How Science Journalism Helped Me Become a Better Sci-Fi Writer Matt Williams writing for Universe Today helped make him a better hard science fiction writer. Hard sci-fi refers to stories where scientific accuracy is emphasized. This essentially means …
The Carnival of Space 583 is up at Universe Today. Universe Today – Next Generation Telescopes Could Use “Teleportation” to Take Better Images The standard technique of locally recording the light at each telescope results in too much noise to work for weak light sources. As a result, all current optical telescope arrays work by …
The Carnival of Space 581 is up at Photon Fishing. Universe Today – Musk Gives an Update on When a Mars Colony Could be Built On Monday, Sept. 17th), Elon Musk revealed new information about the Big Falcon Rocket (BFR) and who its first passenger would be when it conducts its first lunar mission (which …
1. Universe Today – How to Know Once and For All if the Universe Began With a Bang or a Bounce According to the Big Bang cosmological model, our Universe began 13.8 billion years ago when all the matter and energy in the cosmos began expanding. This period of “cosmic inflation” is believed to be …
The Carnival of Space 579 is up at Cosmoquest. Universe Today – Cassini Data Has Revealed a Towering Hexagonal Storm at Saturn’s Northern Pole Universe Today – Europan Space Whales Anyone? Planets Covered by Deep Oceans Can Still Have Life on Them Simulations indicated that there was the right amount of carbon present for many …
The Carnival of SPace 569 is up at Urban Astronomer. The Hill – Deterring World War III with Trump’s Space Force Planetaria – Enceladus’ water plumes contain life clues Nextbigfuture- Gateway Foundation Spaceport envisions large scale space construction Nextbigfuture – Making great Star Wars movies Nextbigfuture – There are about 500 black holes with orbiting …
