NASA’s newest planet-hunting satellite has discovered a type of planet missing from our own solar system. Source: https://phys.org/news/2019-07-nasa-tess-mission-link-planets.html…
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The Man Who Found the Titanic Is Hunting for Amelia Earhart’s Plane
The adventurer who discovered the Titanic is taking on a new mission: finding the Electra, the long-lost plane of Amelia Earhart, the record-breaking pilot who was last heard from on July 2, 1937. Source: https://www.livescience.com/66030-titanic-discoverer-searching-earhart-plane.html
NASA’s TESS mission completes first year of survey, turns to northern sky
NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has discovered 21 planets outside our solar system and captured data on other interesting events occurring in the southern sky during its first year of science. TESS has now turned its attention to the Northern Hemisphere to complete the most comprehensive planet-hunting expedition ever undertaken. Source: https://phys.org/news/2019-07-nasa-tess-mission-year-survey.html…
China’s Tech Giants Have a Second Job: Helping Beijing Spy on Its People
Tencent and Alibaba are among the firms that assist authorities in hunting down criminal suspects, silencing dissent and creating surveillance cities. From a report: Alibaba Group’s sprawling campus has collegial workspaces, laid-back coffee bars and, on the landscaped grounds, a police outpost. Employees use the office to report suspected crimes to the police, according to people familiar with the operation. Police…
Why hunting for fast radio bursts is an ‘exploding field’ in astronomy
Little more than a decade ago, two astronomers discovered mysterious bursts of radio waves that seem to take place all over the sky, often outshining all the stars in a galaxy. Since then, the study of these fast radio bursts, or FRBs, has taken off, and while we still don’t know what exactly they are or what causes them, scientists are…
Is the Random Transiter weirder than Tabby’s Star?
Move over, Tabby’s Star. The Random Transiter may now be the weirdest star in the galaxy. Kepler data revealed 28 transits in front of this star in 87 days. What caused them? Multiple planets? A disintegrating planet? Alien megastructures? Source: https://earthsky.org/space/random-transiter-hd-139139-kepler-tabbys-star…
Watch for a young moon after sunset
Try catching the young moon after sunset on July 3 or 4, 2019. The watch for the waxing crescent moon to pair up with Regulus, the brightest star in the constellation Leo the lion, on or near July 5. Source: https://earthsky.org/tonight/go-young-moon-hunting-after-sunset…
Japan Resumes Commercial Whaling After Decades of Slaughtering Whales ‘for Science’
After 30 years of hunting whales in the name of “science,” Japanese whalers can now kill whales in the name of profit again. Source: https://www.livescience.com/65842-japanese-lift-commercial-whaling-ban.html
After Decades of Hunting, Physicists Claim They’ve Made Quantum Material from Depths of Jupiter
A team of researchers have posted a paper in which they claim to have achieved a holy grail of materials science: creating metallic hydrogen in a laboratory. Source: https://www.livescience.com/65827-metallic-hydrogen-claim.html
How we closed in on the location of a fast radio burst in a galaxy far, far away
Astronomers have spent the past dozen years hunting for fast radio bursts (FRBs) – flashes of radio waves that come from outer space and last just milliseconds. And after a dozen years of work we still don’t know exactly what causes them, only that it must be something very powerful, as they’ve clearly travelled a long way (billions of light-years). Source:…