Astronomy
🌝 Astronomers discover 128 new moons around Saturn
Saturn now has a total of 274 moons, making it the leading planet in the solar system in terms of moon count. The newly discovered moons are irregular objects just a few kilometers in size and can provide insights into the early history of the solar system.
🌊 Abundant water from primordial supernovae at cosmic dawn
Researchers have discovered that the first water in the universe formed 100-200 million years after the Big Bang. Dense molecular cloud cores in supernova remnants proved to be the primary sites of water production, with concentrations almost as high as in our solar system today.
☄️ New telescopes make us safer from asteroid threats – but the media will keep scaring us
The media reported extensively on asteroid 2024 YR4, which was at risk of hitting Earth. That risk has since been downgraded. Several powerful new telescopes will soon come into operation, which are expected to increase the discovery of near-Earth asteroids by 10 to 100 times.
🔭 New space telescope from NASA will map the entire sky
The SPHEREx mission has successfully launched and will map the entire celestial sky in 102 different wavelengths. The telescope will observe hundreds of millions of galaxies and collect data that can help researchers understand the first moments of the universe.
🔭 World's largest telescope takes shape in the Atacama Desert
ELT will be the world's largest optical telescope with a mirror of 39.3 meters in diameter that collects 100 million times more light than a human eye. The telescope will be able to take 16 times sharper images than the Hubble telescope and have 250 times greater light-gathering capacity.