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New Study From University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Identifies Five Double-Sun Planets That Could Support Life
May 11, 2021 GMT
New Study From University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Identifies Five Double-Sun Planets That Could Support Life
URBANA, Ill. - May 11, 2021 - ( Newswire.com )
Luke Skywalker’s view of two suns in
Star Wars is fictional, but recent research from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign found that five known systems having double-star planets like Tatooine could support life.
“We used data collected by the Kepler spacecraft such as the mass of the stars, how bright the stars are, the location of a giant planet, and other parameters to create a methodology to identify systems with two suns that can host habitable Earth-like planets,” said Siegfried Eggl, faculty member in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Cham
NASA spacecraft carrying history-making asteroid sample now heading toward Earth
After spending two-and-a-half years together, a NASA spacecraft bid farewell to its asteroid companion Monday and began the long journey back to Earth.
The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is NASA’s first asteroid sample return mission, and it carries a generous amount of material collected from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu.
It’s the culmination of years of hard work by the mission’s team, which was fueled by a common sense of purpose and unity, said Dante Lauretta, the mission’s principal investigator at the University of Arizona. Although the team is thrilled to examine the asteroid sample once it returns to Earth, they’re bittersweet to be leaving Bennu after spending so much time studying the asteroid up close.
NASA spacecraft carrying history-making asteroid sample will head toward Earth
After spending nearly two-and-a-half years together, a NASA spacecraft will bid farewell to its asteroid companion Monday and begin the long journey back to Earth.
The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is NASA’s first asteroid sample return mission, and it carries a generous amount of material collected from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu.
Tune in live to NASA Television and the agency’s website to follow the beginning of the spacecraft’s trek home Monday afternoon beginning at 4 p.m. ET. While we won’t see visuals of the spacecraft, there will be confirmation that OSIRIS-REx is on the way home.
Upcoming webinar organized by the International Space Science Institute-Beijing (ISSI-BJ) on Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission of NASA with Prof. Andy Cheng (John Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory).DART will be the first space experiment to demonstrate asteroid deflection by a kinetic impactor. Read more & register: http://www.issibj.ac.cn/News/202104/t20210423 267437.htmlAbout Andy Cheng
by Tyler Durden
Monday, May 03, 2021 - 11:40 PM
According to simulations conducted by leading space agencies, Earth lacks the technology to stop a massive asteroid from wiping out Europe, according to the
The week-long exercise led by Nasa concluded that catastrophe would be unavoidable, even given six months to prepare.
The hypothetical impact scenario, which took place during a planetary defence conference hosted by the United Nations, proved that
governments are woefully unprepared for this kind of disaster. -Independent If confronted with the scenario in real life, we would not be able to launch any spacecraft on such short notice with current capabilities, said the participants.