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FLAMINGO Universe Simulations: Open access to data
12+ hour, 20+ min ago (634+ words) An international team of astrophysicists has released one of the world's largest collections of cosmological simulations'over 2. 5 petabytes of data, equivalent to roughly half a million HD-quality movies. The dataset allows us to study how matter in the Universe has been…...
Boundary of star formation in the Milky Way
9+ hour, 40+ min ago (444+ words) The pattern was clear: the farther away from the center of the Galaxy, the younger the stars'after all, the Milky Way, like most galaxies, evolves from the inside out. But at around 35, 00040, 000 light-years, this trend suddenly reverses: the stars become…...
Asteroid gave scientists a shortcut to Mars
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (23+ words) Accurate predictions of the orbits of near-Earth asteroids will enable spacecraft to travel to Mars and return in less than a year....
Chakram detonation rocket engine: record-breaking test
17+ hour, 55+ min ago (22+ words) Astrobotic ran its Chakram detonation engine continuously for 300 seconds'a record for this class. What does this mean for lunar missions?...
NASA " " " Artemis " "
1+ day, 4+ hour ago (15+ words) " NASA " " ", " Space X Blue Origin " " " " " " Artemis III " " 2027 "...
Cislunar Space: A New Strait of Hormuz?
12+ hour, 55+ min ago (68+ words) Lunar space could become a strategic hub for the economy of the future'and just as vulnerable as the Strait of Hormuz....
NASA will send Artemis to the Moon every year
1+ day, 4+ hour ago (551+ words) The Artemis III mission will not fly to the Moon. Under the updated plan, NASA will launch a crewed Orion spacecraft, which is scheduled to dock with one or two lunar landers in Earth orbit. An intermediate mission is necessary…...
Curiosity and Perseverance: Two Mars Missions, Two Eras
1+ day, 12+ hour ago (21+ words) Two NASA rovers are exploring different eras of Mars'and are already finding traces of water, organic matter, and possible life....
Dark matter and early black holes: New theory
1+ day, 10+ hour ago (470+ words) The James Webb Space Telescope detects supermassive black holes from a time when the universe was less than a billion years old. This contradicts all known models of their formation'and researchers are proposing an unexpected explanation: the energy released by…...
Mergers of supermassive black holes: how orbital inclination plays a decisive role
1+ day, 16+ hour ago (132+ words) The inclination of an orbit determines whether the black holes in galaxies will merge, according to researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology....