26 September 2016
A potentially disrupting satellite system around the LMC has been observed for the first time by astronomers
... systems have gone unnoticed in the past. Although the nature of SMASH 1 remains uncertain, the team speculate in their paper that the ... the first of its kind as the team conclude that, “SMASH 1 would be one of only a few known disrupting globular ...
27 August 2018
Meteorites give clues as to how Jupiter was built
...) was present in the solar nebula at one million years and that these smaller objects would be the smashed up remnants of large primordial planetesimals that were obliterated following a collision with a planet twice as big as Earth. Finally...
15 February 2016
Astronomers provide new insights into planet formation around binary stars
... will eventually attract more rock and gas gravitationally. If you try to smash rocks together, they don't stick together very well," continued Isella. "If you smash snowballs together, they do. So when you form an ice mantle around...
June 2015
The book of flight
... much better to the airline. Ooops! But, of course, what happens if the tablet slips to the floor and smashes during take-off. The company has produced a full operational risk analysis. It’s an extensive document that exactly...
October 2015
Taking AIM with ESA: proposing the first visit to a binary asteroid system
... its triumphant rendezvous with Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. The AIM spacecraft observes NASA’s DART mission smashing into one half of the Didymos binary asteroid system By necessity, AIM has had to take shape at a more...
February 2016
Defending Earth against cosmic hazards
... 1990s space imaging was able to confirm that this was indeed the remnant of a giant asteroid that smashed into Earth. This event, which was the equivalent to the explosion of tens of thousands of nuclear bombs and...
