A proposed mission would touch down at local dusk in 2045, spend 88 Earth days collecting 11 gigabytes of data, then expire as its maximum operating temperature is exceeded as it sees the Sun rise from Mercury’s surface.
A massive star’s extreme dimming episode may be the result of mass loss that obscures the star, analogous to Betelgeuse’s “Great Dimming,” but this scenario makes finding true failed supernovae even more difficult.
New research shows that the apparent discrepancies in the mass and spin of black holes in X-ray binaries compared to those discovered with gravitational waves is the result of a selection effect.
Detailed measurements of stellar trajectories allowed researchers to trace the motions of stars from 5 million years ago to 2 million years in the future, uncovering 119 past flyby events in the Sco-Cen OB association.
A team has collected previous solar wind measurements at the orbit of asteroid (16) Psyche and used them to predict four possible structures for the object’s magnetosphere, which has the potential to be very complex.
Of the 26 newly discovered radio sources sporting jets, 14 are X-shaped radio galaxies and 12 are Z-shaped radio galaxies, and the optical counterparts of 17 of these 26 sources were able to be classified as well.