Japan will send an 8K camera to Mars and its moons

Posted on 13/09/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

It’s difficult to justify 8K video here on Earth, but that isn’t stopping Japan from capturing ultra-high resolution imagery elsewhere in the Solar System. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency and broadcaster NHK are developing 4K and 8K cameras (v...

Outlier adds Astronomy and Statistics classes to its online university

Posted on 25/08/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

We’re in the throes of a deadly pandemic, and there’s not much time before everyone’s expected to get back to school. That’s why it’s fortunate that home-learning startup Outlier.org is adding two more classes to its burgeoning roster of college cour...

Hitting the Books: Volcanoes, mortal enemy of the mighty telescope

Posted on 15/08/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Humans are, as a species, hardwired to explore. We conquered the planet thanks to untold generations of people needing to see what lay over the next hill or around the next river bend and our infatuation with the stars is no different — we’ve wondere...

Astronomers find the first known exposed core of a gas giant

Posted on 06/07/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Gas giants like Jupiter and Saturn are known to have cores at their centers, but seeing those is difficult — unless nature cooperates, that is. University of Warwick astronomers have discovered (via ScienceNews) what they say is the first known expos...

Astronomers may have spotted light from colliding black holes

Posted on 28/06/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Black hole collisions tend not to produce light by their very nature — you may catch gravitational waves, but that’s about it. However, scientists might have just found one of those rare instances where a collision was visible. A team using May 2019...

Astronomers find the first known regular pattern of fast radio bursts

Posted on 17/06/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Astronomers are having an easier time finding fast radio bursts as of late, and that now includes the first regular pattern for those bursts. A research team from MIT and elsewhere has discovered that something 500 million light-years away is routine...

Scientists locate the first fast radio burst in the Milky Way

Posted on 15/06/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Fast radio bursts in the cosmos might not be quite so mysterious before long. Astronomers have detected the first known burst coming from within the Milky Way galaxy. It originated with the SGR 1935+2154 magnetar (a neutron star surrounded by intense...

Scientists find a likely Earth-like planet orbiting a Sun-like star

Posted on 07/06/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Astronomers have found Earth-like planets before, but usually around red dwarf stars. That’s a rather large problem when their flares and radiation could make orbiting planets uninhabitable. Thankfully, there may be a much more viable candidate in th...

SpaceX’s latest batch of internet satellites includes one with a sun shield

Posted on 03/06/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

SpaceX is launching another pack of Starlink satellites into orbit at 9:25PM Eastern (weather permitting), but this won’t be a typical mission. As TechCrunch explains, one of the 60 internet satellites in the bunch will test a sun visor that should m...

China’s giant radio telescope will start searching for aliens in September

Posted on 01/06/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

China will soon make a significant contribution to the search for extraterrestrial life. State media outlet Science and Technology Daily (via ChinaTechCity) says the country’s Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope, or FAST, will begin looki...

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