Kubsat carries two types of yeast on board. As part of the experiment, the impact of cosmic radiation on the development of living organisms in deep space conditions will be studied.
The data on the damage of yeast genetic material will be used in the scientific works of the Ames Research Center dedicated to the protection of astronauts’ organisms outside of low Earth orbit.
Australia on Monday began construction of an extensive antenna network in a sparsely populated area, part of which, according to designers, will eventually become one of the most powerful radio telescopes in the world.
When everything is ready, the antennas in Australia and the dish network in South Africa will form a massive instrument whose purpose is to unravel the mysteries of the formation of stars, galaxies and extraterrestrial life.
The idea of the telescope first arose in the early 1990s, but the project suffered from delays, funding problems and diplomatic machinations.
According to the Director General, the telescope “will become one of the greatest scientific achievements of mankind.”
The telescope has compiled a molecular and chemical portrait of the atmosphere of the “hot Saturn” WASP-39b in unprecedented detail, revealing water, sulfur dioxide, carbon monoxide, sodium and potassium in it.
The exoplanet lives seven hundred light-years from Earth in the direction of the constellation Virgo and is located eight times closer to its star than Mercury is to the Sun.
The presence of such a complete list of chemical ingredients in the shell of the exoplanet WASP-39b gives an idea of the abundance of various elements in relation to each other, which allows us to make assumptions about how it formed in the disk of gas and dust surrounding the parent star in its young years.
Astronomy asks questions about how the first stars and galaxies began to form, and what ultimately led to our existence.
However, even the largest space telescope is only as good as its instruments are, and here the NIRSpec spectrograph comes on the scene.
Its task is to divide the infrared light collected by Webb into its constituent wavelengths and form a spectrum. By measuring how the brightness of an object changes in space at different wavelengths, astronomers can extract a huge amount of information about its physical characteristics and chemical composition.
The first NIRSpec images and data are coming back to Earth. As soon as the painstaking analysis is completed, we will receive new answers to the questions so important for understanding our own existence.
The Hubble mission support team has published a picture of a very unusual-looking galaxy known under the designation Arp-Madore 417-391. It was formed as a result of a “space accident”.
Arp-Madore 417-391 is located at a distance of 670 million light-years from Earth in the direction of the southern constellation Eridanus. It consists of two spiral galaxies in the process of merging. Gravitational interactions have already distorted the original shape of the galaxies and ripped out a significant part of the matter from them, which formed a giant ring structure. It is dotted with a lot of blue lights. These are clusters of newborn stars. At the same time, the Hubble image demonstrates that the galactic nuclei have not yet merged into a single whole.
On November 21, Toronto-based STELLS unveiled its plans to develop a Mobile Power Rover, a rover that will generate energy from its solar panels and can transmit it wirelessly to other vehicles on the moon’s surface. Its MSL-1 rover is scheduled to launch by 2025 as a payload on the Intuitive Machines lander to the southern polar regions of the Moon.
The rover will transmit energy using wireless technology, moving to the customer’s vehicle. Another approach is to leave a wireless charger in the crater, and then force the rover to come out of the crater into sunlight, which will allow it to generate energy and transmit it via cable to this charger, to which other vehicles will move.
It is at the earliest stage of star formation and gives an idea of what the Sun and the Solar System looked like in infancy
The James Webb Space Telescope has received an incredibly detailed image of object L1527, which, according to astronomers, is formed by a forming star. Its age is estimated at only one hundred thousand years.
“The protostar is hidden in the “neck” of the hourglass, and its protoplanetary disk, comparable in size to the Solar System, is visible as a horizontal dark line. The light from the protostar seeps above and below this plane, illuminating the cavities in the gas and dust surrounding the region,” the participants of the observations note.
Protostar L1527 has a long way to go before becoming a full-fledged star. So far, it does not generate its own energy due to the nuclear fusion of hydrogen, and its spherical shape is still unstable. At the moment, L1527 looks like a hot, plump cluster of gas with a mass of 20-40 percent solar.
Zimbabwe on Monday announced the launch into space of its first nanosatellite, which will collect data to monitor natural disasters, develop agriculture and improve the mapping of minerals.
A rocket carrying a tiny satellite, dubbed SIMSAT-1, has successfully launched from Virginia along with Uganda’s first satellite as part of a multinational project of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA).
The satellite launch caused a lot of controversy on social media: some hailed the government for this achievement, while others ridiculed its efforts.
“Launching a satellite when the economy is fragile is nonsense. Poverty has increased over the past 5 years. You can’t buy a car when your family is starving,” the commentators shared.
A new astronomical object was discovered by chance during observations of the red dwarf GJ367. The new exoplanet resembles Mars in size, but it looks like Mercury in metals and appearance.
The planet is located near the Sun, the surface temperature is 1500 degrees, which excludes any form of life. In addition, this planet makes a complete revolution around its star in 8 hours.
The planet was given the name GJ367b. It is 2 times lighter than Earth, but at the same time exceeds Mercury in density. This suggests that 90% of the planet consists of iron.
