30 December 2019
Will Betelgeuse go supernova soon? Probably not say some astronomers
...forces in the core can no longer balance. This life cycle is the same for all stars, large or small, ... at the University of Washington and an expert on the life cycles of red supergiants is equally cautious about the recent dimming of Betelgeuse...
08 June 2020
New discovery provides important clues on mysterious cosmic bursts
...Rajwade. To the team’s surprise, the timescale for this cycle is almost 10 times longer than the 16-day periodicity ... constraint on the origin of the bursts and the activity cycles could argue against a precessing neutron star,” Rajwade adds. Instead...
25 November 2020
Solar astronomers "listening" to the Sun can now predict future sunspots
... sunspot that has been dubbed “the strongest far-side signal" yet to be encountered during this solar cycle, has now appeared near the eastern solar limb, and can be seen from Earth. “We measured a change...
17 March 2021
Like Venus, ancient water on Mars is trapped in its crust, new study says
... freed. "All of this water was sequestered fairly early on, and then never cycled back out," Scheller says. The research, which relied on data from telescopes, ... the timescales of sustained participation of water in the hydrologic cycle,” they add.
20 September 2021
Best time for a human Mars mission? During a solar maximum, new study says
...solar particle intensity varies during the 11-years solar cycle, with the latter decreasing during solar activity minima...through a spacecraft shell during different phases of a solar cycle. Protons and nine ion species to model solar particle ...
19 June 2018
Harwell Space Cluster turbocharges growth in UK’s ‘New Space’ sector
... risk sectors for venture capitalists, as the length of the innovation cycle made it more difficult to realise strong returns. More recently, we've seen this innovation cycle shrinking, enabling much greater returns. This makes the space sector...
