Comet Chaser News Today

Hello everyone, and welcome to the week! Its time once again for our look back at the noteworthy updates of the last seven days. Its an interesting assortment of games this time around, hand-picked for your Monday viewing pleasure. I do hope you enjoy it.

Scientists baffled after supermassive black hole at centre of distant galaxy goes MISSING Charlotte Edwards 8 Jan 2021, 16:37 EXPERTS have been left astonished after a supermassive black hole which was thought to be in the middle of a distant galaxy has gone missing. The bright cluster galaxy A2261-BCG appears to have lost its black hole and some scientists think it could now be floating through space. 2 Scientists cant find a black hole they thought was in a distant galaxyCredit: Getty Images ...

Charlotte Edwards, Digital Technology and Science Reporter 18 Dec 2020, 10:40 AN angelic figure on the surface of Mars has been spotted by the European Space Agency. Scientists were using the Mars Express spacecraft to observe around the south pole of Mars when they spotted what looks like a snow angel formation on the ground. 4 This is the pattern that was spottedCredit: PA:Press Association The researchers may have been feeling festive when they pointed out that the formation looks like it ha...

New Space Mission in UK is Set to Chase Comets and Study Stardust FOLLOW US ON: Engineers in the UK are starting to work on a new spacecraft that will chase down comets and the map them for scientific research. The Guardian reports that the mission involves three spacecraft that have been designed to collaborate. Of these, the mother ship is being built by Thales Alenia Space, which is based out in UK. As per the report, the mothership will hold two smaller robotic probes that can be released c...

British engineers are set to build a spacecraft that will track down and ambush comets in order to study them in unprecedented detail. The mission, dubbed the comet chaser, will feature three main components, a mothership built by a company called Thales Alenia Space based in the UK, and two robotic probes which will be manufactured by the Japanese Space Agency (JAXA).  Astronomers hope the highly-detailed 3D-scans of the space rocks surface will reveal secrets about the formation of comets ...

A new spacecraft to track down comets and map them in 3D will be built in Britain, the Government has announced.  Thales Alenia Space, which employs 200 scientists and engineers in the UK, will design and build the Comet Chaser at its sites in Bristol and Harwell, Oxfordshire.  Trailblazer: Thales Alenia Space Comet Chaser at its sites in Bristol and Harwell, Oxfordshire Once in space, the crafts mothership will wait in a parking orbit before launching robotic probes, built by the Japan Aero...

Total solar eclipse 2020 – Is there one today and where can I watch it? Charlotte Edwards, Digital Technology and Science Reporter 14 Dec 2020, 17:55 A TOTAL solar eclipse is happening today. It will be the only solar eclipse of 2020 but is only visible in a select few countries. 4 Where is the solar eclipse happening? The solar eclipse has already occurred in some countries. It will be a total eclipse for viewers across a narrow region of the South Pacific, Chile, Argentina and the south At...