• New Study Explains How Mars Dust Storms Can Engulf the Planet

    New Study Explains How Mars Dust Storms Can Engulf the Planet
    Mars is well-known for its dust storms, which occur every Martian year during summer in the southern hemisphere. Every three Martian years (five and a half Earth years), these storms grow so large that they are visible from Earth and will engulf the entire planet for months. These storms pose a significant threat to robotic missions, generating electrostatic charges that can interfere with their electronics or cause dust to build up on their solar panels, preventing them from drawing enough powe
  • Mysterieuze onderdrukking in de groei van kosmische structuren komt niet door dynamische donkere energie

    Er zijn afgelopen jaren al talloze zaken ontdekt die wijzen op discrepanties in het heersende heelalmodel, het ΛCDM model, dat veronderstelt dat er donkere energie en donkere materie zijn, die van invloed zijn op de evolutie van grootschalige structuren in het heelal. Twee daarvan zijn de Hubble spanning en de S8 of σ8 spanning, die […]
  • Student Team Designs 2U CubeSat with Big Ambitions

    Student Team Designs 2U CubeSat with Big Ambitions
    CubeSats can be used in many different scenarios, and one of their most important uses is providing an easy path to understanding how to design, plan, and launch a mission. That was the idea behind AlbaSat, a 2U CubeSat currently under development by a team at the University of Padova with an impressive four different functional sensors packed into its tiny frame.AlbaSat was initially developed as a student project at the University of Padova as part of ESA’s Fly Your Satellite (FYS) progr
  • This Fast Radio Burst Definitely Came From a Neutron Star

    This Fast Radio Burst Definitely Came From a Neutron Star
    Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are notoriously difficult to study. They are flashes of radio light that can outshine a galaxy but often last for only a fraction of a second. For years, all we could do was observe them by random chance and wonder about their origins. Now, thanks to wide-field radio telescopes such as CHIME, we have some general understanding as to their cause. They seem to originate from highly magnetic neutron stars known as magnetars, but the details are still a matter of some debate
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  • Voor deze missies liep het in 2024 goed fout!

    Voor deze missies liep het in 2024 goed fout!
    Mensen verkennen de ruimte al bijna 70 jaar. Maar als we dachten dat al die ervaring het makkelijker voor ons zou maken om ons buiten onze planeet te wagen, dan heeft 2024 dat idee laten varen. Hoewel er dit jaar enkele grote successen zijn geboekt op het gebied van ruimteverkenning, zoals China die voor het eerst maanmonsters van de verre oever terugstuurt naar de aarde, een recordbrekende raket van een student en de allereerste privé-ruimtewandeling, zijn er ook enkele grote blunders ge
  • Zouden er tegenwoordig bacteriën op Mars leven?

    Zouden er tegenwoordig bacteriën op Mars leven?
    Mars wordt vaak beschouwd als de planeet die het meest op de aarde lijkt. De aarde is echter in staat om leven te ondersteunen, Mars daarentegen niet. Er was ooit een tijd dat het er warmer en natter was en leven kon ondersteunen. Het onderzoeken van het leven op Aarde laat ons zien dat bacteriën die bekend staan als extremofielen kunnen leven in de meest barre omstandigheden op Aarde, het is heel goed mogelijk dat er plekken op Mars zijn die ook deze sterke levensvormen zouden kunnen onder
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  • NASA Scientists Discover “Dark Comets” Come in Two Populations.

    NASA Scientists Discover “Dark Comets” Come in Two Populations.
    On October 19th, 2017, the Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System-1 (Pan-STARRS-1) in Hawaii announced the first-ever detection of an interstellar object, named 1I/2017 U1 ‘Oumuamua (the Hawaiin word for “scout”). This object created no shortage of confusion since it appeared as an asteroid but behaved like a comet (based on the way it accelerated out of the Solar System). Since then, scientists have noticed a lot of other objects that behave the same way, known a
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  • Could There Be Bacteria Living on Mars Today?

    Could There Be Bacteria Living on Mars Today?
    Mars is often considered to be the planet most similar to the Earth. Earth however, is capable of supporting life, Mars on the other hand could not. There was once a time when it was warmer and wetter and could support life. Exploring life on Earth shows us that bacteria known as extremophiles can live in the most harsh conditions on Earth, it may just be possible that there are places on Mars that could also support these hardy forms of life. A new paper explores that possibility by studying th

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