Daily News update on – Science


August 6, 2023
NEWS

Space.com

Sun blasts out highest-energy radiation ever recorded, raising questions for solar physics

Something like 1 trillion electron volts, to be exact. “After looking at six years’ worth of data, out popped this excess of gamma rays,” Meher Un Nisa, a …

Facebook Twitter

Space.com

Watch SpaceX launch 22 Starlink satellites tonight

SpaceX plans to launch 22 more of its Starlink internet satellites tonight (Aug. 6), and you can watch the action live. A Falcon 9 rocket topped with the Starlink spacecraft is scheduled to lift off from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station …

Facebook Twitter

Forbes

High Tech Aliens Will Need Goldilocks Levels Of Atmospheric Oxygen, Say Astronomers

In a paper being published in Nature Astronomy Commentary, Amedeo Balbi and Adam Frank argue that on Earth, “the development of technology required easy access to open air combustion, which is only possible when oxygen partial pressure, P(O2), is above 18% …

Facebook Twitter

Capital Public Radio News

If you miss August’s blue supermoon, you’ll have to wait 9 years for your next chance

A supermoon on July 3 in Kansas City, Missouri. The next two supermoons of 2023 will take place at the beginning and end of August. Charlie Riedel/AP. Dustin Jones. The moon will seem extra big and bright and thus be quite a sight this August, …

Facebook Twitter

The Hindu

Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft enters lunar orbit

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on August 5 completed the Lunar-Orbit Insertion (LOI) to successfully put the Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft into the moon’s orbit. The LOI manoeuvre was performed from ISRO Telemetry, Tracking and Command …

Facebook Twitter

The Guardian

Scientists seek out source of dark matter in Yorkshire

British scientists have an audacious dream. They want to house a giant international particle detector that would be built 3,000ft underground in a potash mine in Yorkshire. The device, they say, would give them a last clear chance to pinpoint what is the …

Facebook Twitter

The Indian Express

Watch this space: Chandrayaan-3 enters lunar orbit, ‘Sun umbrella,’ and Voyager 2

The spacecraft entered lunar orbit yesterday. In the meanwhile, a scientist has proposed a new “solar umbrella” to mitigate the effects of climate change while NASA lost and then regained contact with the Voyager 2 spacecraft, which is outside of the solar …

Facebook Twitter

KXXV News Channel 25

A new millipede species is crawling under LA. It’s blind, glassy and has 486 legs

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The City of Angels, a metropolis of freeways and traffic, has a newly discovered species named in its honor: The Los Angeles Thread Millipede. The tiny arthropod was found just underground by naturalists at a Southern California …

Facebook Twitter

Aljazeera.com

India’s Chandrayaan-3 space mission enters moon’s orbit

India’s space agency says its spacecraft has successfully been inserted into the lunar orbit. India space. The Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft has taken much longer to reach the moon than the manned …

Facebook Twitter

KXXV News Channel 25

NASA restores contact with Voyager 2 spacecraft after mistake led to weeks of silence

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft was back chatting it up Friday after flight controllers corrected a mistake that had led to weeks of silence. Hurtling ever deeper into interstellar space billions of miles away, Voyager 2 stopped …

Facebook Twitter