There are a lot of things in Earth’s night sky, and every now and again, they line up in such a way to give us all a little bit of a giggle.
On the nights of Thursday 24 and Friday 25 April, just such an alignment is going to take place, just…
Category: 2. Space
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A Heliocentric-orbiting Objects Processing System (HOPS) for the Wide Field Survey Telescope: Architecture, Processing Workflow, and Preliminary Results
Wide-field surveys have markedly enhanced the discovery and study of solar system objects. The 2.5 m Wide Field Survey Telescope (WFST) represents the foremost facility dedicated to optical time-domain surveys in the Northern Hemisphere. To fully…
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TOI-2005b: An Eccentric Warm Jupiter in Spin-orbit Alignment
We report the discovery and characterization of TOI-2005 b, a warm Jupiter on an eccentric (e ∼ 0.59), 17.3 days orbit around a Vmag = 9.867 rapidly rotating F-star. The object was detected as a candidate by Transiting Exoplanet Survey…
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Refractory and Volatile Species in the UV-to-IR Transmission Spectrum of Ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-178b with HST and JWST
The atmospheres of ultra-hot Jupiters are unique compared to other planets because of the presence of both refractory and volatile gaseous species, enabling a new lens to constrain a planet’s composition, chemistry, and formation. WASP-178b is…
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NASA Astronaut to Answer Questions from Students in California
Students from Santa Monica, California, will connect with NASA astronaut Jonny Kim as he answers prerecorded science, technology, engineering, and mathematics-related questions aboard the International Space Station.
Watch the 20-minute…
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Astronomers Discover Polar Circumbinary Exoplanet around Pair of Brown Dwarfs
The newly-discovered planet orbits at an angle of 90 degrees around 2MASS J15104786-2818174 (hereafter 2M1510), an eclipsing binary composed of two equal-mass brown dwarfs.
This illustration shows an exoplanet orbiting around two brown dwarfs….
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Sols 4518-4519: Thumbs up from Mars
Written by Susanne Schwenzer, Planetary Geologist at The Open University
Earth planning date: Monday, 21st April 2025
It is Easter Monday, a bank holiday here in the United Kingdom. I am Science Operations Working Group Chair today,…
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