WASHINGTON — The head of the European Space Agency called on Europe to increase overall spending on space as he prepares a new three-year budget for the agency.
Testifying before a European Parliament committee May 13, Josef Aschbacher…
Category: 2. Space
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IceCube Spots Space’s Strangest Signal: A Neutrino Torrent With No Gamma Flash
Powerful neutrinos from a distant galaxy hint at a surprising origin: helium atoms torn apart by UV light near a black hole, reshaping what we thought we knew about cosmic jets. In deep space, powerful neutrinos are typically found alongside…
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The Great Cosmic Wiggle: Quasars Reveal Gravity’s Hidden Rhythm
Gravitational waves are constantly washing over Earth, but an astrophysicist aims to capture them in an entirely new way—by watching distant quasars appear to wiggle due to spacetime distortions. Using data from the Gaia satellite, he’s…
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Webb Spots Mysterious Lightshow on Jupiter That Baffles Scientists
Webb sees the aurora flickering, fluctuating, and undulating at Jupiter’s north pole. Auroras on Earth, better known as the Northern and Southern Lights, create glowing, shifting curtains of color in the night sky. These dazzling displays…
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A Tough Drill at Witch Hazel Hill
Written by Alex Jones, Ph.D. candidate at Imperial College London
After a busy few months exploring the outer slopes of the Jezero crater rim at an area named “Witch Hazel Hill,” the Perseverance Science Team was eyeing…
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Lawmakers raise alarm over rumored cuts to commercial satellite imagery funding
WASHINGTON — Lawmakers raised alarms May 14 over reported plans by the Trump administration to slash funding for commercial satellite imagery procurement — a move critics say could undercut U.S. intelligence capabilities and…
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The Thermal Emission Spectrum of the Nearby Rocky Exoplanet LTT 1445A b from JWST MIRI/LRS
The nearby transiting rocky exoplanet LTT 1445A b presents an ideal target for studying atmospheric retention in terrestrial planets orbiting M dwarfs. It is cooler than many rocky exoplanets yet tested for atmospheres, receiving a bolometric…
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A Pioneering Experiment Combining Single-antenna and Aperture-synthesis Data to Measure Faraday Rotation with GMIMS and the CGPS
Structures in the magnetoionic medium exist across a wide range of angular sizes owing to large-scale magnetic fields coherent over the Galactic spiral arms combined with small-scale fluctuations in the magnetic field and electron density…
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Search for the Blazhko Effect in Field RR Lyrae Stars Using LINEAR and ZTF Light Curves
We analyzed the incidence and properties of RR Lyrae stars that show evidence for amplitude and phase modulation (the so-called Blazhko Effect) in a sample of ∼3000 stars with LINEAR and ZTF light curve data collected during the periods of…
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