The debris disk closest to Earth is the one around the star ϵ Eridani at a distance of 3.2 pc. It is the prime target for detailed studies of a belt of planetesimals left from the early phase of planet formation other than the Kuiper belt. The non-uniform ring-like structure around ...
Because Triton orbits the wrong way around Neptune, it is believed to have once been an object from the nearby Kuiper belt which was captured in the planet's orbit. "So it's a pretty cool to go and have a look at," said McCaughrean. As astronomers sweep the universe searching for ot...
These two images of Lake Superior and surrounding area show the first data downlinked from the CubeSat Multispectral Observation System (CUMULOS) cameras. The image on the left, taken by a short-wavelength infrared camera, captures a larger area of the lake and shows strong contrast between land...
On its way to an unprecedented flyby of Pluto, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft snapped a special shot
The planets are 24, 37 and 67 times the Earth-sun separation from the host star. The furthest planet in the new system orbits just inside a disk of dusty debris, similar to that produced by the comets of the Kuiper belt of our solar system (just beyond the orbit of Neptune at 30 tim...
Herschel images of Fomalhaut. An extrasolar Kuiper Belt at the height of its dynamical activity Context. Fomalhaut is a young (2 卤 1 脳 108 years), nearby (7.7 pc), 2 M star that is suspected to harbor an infant planetary system, interspersed with ... B Acke,M Min,C Dominik,... ...
Today, the space agencies have announced that Solar Orbiter has taken the closest ever-image of the sun. The stunning photo and other images were taken during the spacecraft's inaugural close encounter with the sun, known as perihelion, in mid-June and capture a number of new, strange phen...
NASA's historic Parker Solar Probe mission will revolutionize our understanding of the Sun, where changing conditions can propagate out into the solar system, affecting Earth and other worlds. Parker Solar Probe will travel through the sun's atmosphere, closer to the surface than any spacecraft be...
Using DNA microscopy, scientists can identify different cells (colored dots) within a sample -- with no prior knowledge of what the sample looks like. Credit: J. Weinsteinetal./Cell2019 Microscopy just got reinvented—again. Traditionally, scientists have used light, x-rays, and electrons to pe...
Teledyne e2v has Provided New Horizons With Two Specialist Image Sensors Share Post