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Life could survive underground on Mars for hundreds of millions of years. Bad news for Arecibo.
The Closest Black Hole Ever Discovered
A monster black hole was discovered fairly close to us. More analysis exposed that it was a 12-solar mass black hole. Its an interesting new method that can expose more black holes in the future.
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Whenever spacecraft make a gravity-assisted flyby of Earth, its the ideal chance to test their optics and science instruments. Throughout its recent flyby, Trojan-bound Lucy recorded this image of world Earth when it was about 620,000 km away. It also recorded a photo of both the Earth and the Moon in the exact same picture, demonstrating how far they are from each other.
More about Lucys flyby.
Star Blasts Away the Atmosphere From a Planet
There is a fascinating paradox about life on Mars. New research studies suggest the following situation. If there was life on Mars in its early stages, when the world was damp and warm, it could have cleaned itself out. By producing CO2, methane and other gases, it might have damaged the greenhouse result. By replacing hydrogen with those gases they made the world colder, which ultimately lead to losing its atmosphere and for that reason conditions for life.
More about Mars life paradox.
Starlink Hacked to Be Used As GPS Alternative
Life might survive underground on Mars for hundreds of millions of years. There is an interesting paradox about life on Mars. If there was life on Mars in its early stages, when the world was warm and damp, it might have cleaned itself out. By changing hydrogen with those gases they made the world colder, which eventually lead to losing its environment and for that reason conditions for life.
If the worlds are farther away from the star, their environment might hold under this barrage, securing life until the star settles down.
More about the black hole in “our backyard”.
Early Life Could Have Killed All Life on Mars
The famous Arecibo radar telescope will not be rebuilt. Still, Arecibo has left a huge heritage both in science, as brand-new studies are still being released with its data, as well as in popular culture.
More about Arecibos future.
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This could be the case for lots of other exoplanetary systems, however theres some good news. If the worlds are further away from the star, their environment might hold under this barrage, securing life until the star settles down.
More about red dwarfs planets.
Arecibo Wont Be Rebuilt
Scientist handled to hack Starlink and use it as a positioning system. All that with no consent from SpaceX. By evaluating the signals from the satellites they managed to reverse-engineer it and extract timing data. Integrating this info with the positions of the satellites, which are widely known and opened to the public, it efficiently became a GPS alternative. The accuracy is about 30-meters. It can be improved, if SpaceX wanted to cooperate. However whether they will desire to do so is yet to be determined.
Lucy Gets a Portrait of the Earth and the Moon