01 July 2019
Earliest known galaxy merger detected by ALMA
... of these signals (oxygen, carbon and dust) have been detected. The youthfulness of this galaxy in its prime is indicated by its apparent lack of star-forming material. The research team, headed by Takuya Hashimoto, a postdoctoral researcher at the...
13 September 2019
Newly discovered comet could be our second interstellar visitor
... has an eccentricity of zero; for example, the eccentricity of the Earth’s orbit is currently about 0.0167. Higher numbers indicate more elliptical orbits and at 3.2, the newly found comet’s orbit can be described as hyperbolic. This highly eccentric...
18 November 2019
First global geological map of Titan unveiled
... Cassini orbiter spacecraft. Lopes and colleagues work indicates that Titan’s geology depends strongly on latitude.... distinction between these units and where they are found on Titan indicates that a variety of processes must be acting on the surface ...
10 August 2020
Salty dwarf planet Ceres could be hiding an ocean
... brine. This suggests that the brines may still be ascending, indicating that salty fluids could still exist in the interior of the.... Like the other studies connected to this research have indicated, with impact-generated heat long gone by this point ...
14 September 2020
Possible signs of microbial life found in Venus' atmosphere
..., the authors do urge that the detection of phosphine is not robust evidence for microbial life “and only indicates potentially unknown geological or chemical processes occurring on Venus.” Further observations and modelling are needed to explore the...
25 September 2020
Salty water vapour provides clues to massive star formation
... same direction. “The counter-rotation of the disks may indicate that these two stars are not actual twins, but ...disk, aligns well with investigations into meteorites which also indicates that the proto-Solar System disk experienced high temperatures ...
