October 2015
Taking AIM with ESA: proposing the first visit to a binary asteroid system
...AIM can provide ‘ground-truth’ for ground-based observations and modelling, in terms of the formation mechanisms of binary systems and the geophysics of asteroids. As part of AIDA, AIM will shed new light on collisional dynamics. This is increasingly...
September 2019
A new era in planetary defence missions
... the Earth. By targeting Didymos B, DART can still perform this direct test but on the small moonlet of a binary system that is not a threat to Earth. EarthThe NEXT-C ion engine during ground testing at NASA Glenn Research Center...
July 2021
Arecibo - an astounding legacy
... has opened up new possibilities for the study of gravitation”. Indeed, the changes observed in the periastron of the binary system – the point of closest approach - led to the first indirect evidence of gravitational waves. The first radar ranging...
03 February 2020
Researchers discover "invisible" stars too dim to be seen
...galactic centre was behaving unusually, astronomers have discovered a stellar binary system that is so dim, it can’t be seen at all...the distant star in the background. "We don't see this binary system at all, but from only seeing the effects that it ...
25 September 2020
Salty water vapour provides clues to massive star formation
...Using the resolving power of ALMA to study a massive young binary system known as IRAS 16547-4247, a team of astronomers have been...meteorites which also indicates that the proto-Solar System disk experienced high temperatures causing dust particles to...
19 April 2016
Gravitational waves poised to be pinpointed by gamma ray burst
... sun, but many questions remain about the nature and origin of the system, not least is just how common are such massive binary systems. Assuming these two events are connected, the GBM localisation and Fermi...
