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Satellite Events for Tonight

NASA’s New Shock Detectives Project Invites Volunteers to Help Study Solar Wind

Reported by NASA

NASA’s Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission has collected more than ten years of data from this zone – more than scientists can analyze alone. As Shock Detectives, you’ll help sort the chaotic from peaceful regions of the data, giving researchers ...
  • By: NASA
  • On: Tue, 19 May 2026 13:05 +0000

Interstellar turbulence in the Milky Way distorts light

Reported by Space | EarthSky

For the 1st time, astronomers have directly detected how interstellar turbulence distorts the light from distant objects in our galaxy. The post Interstellar turbulence in the Milky Way distorts light first appeared on EarthSky....
  • By: Space | EarthSky
  • On: Tue, 19 May 2026 11:14 +0000

TESS Data Reveals 27 New Planet Candidates in Binary Systems

Reported by Universe Today

You’re doing some late afternoon work on the habitat as part of humanity’s first exoplanet settlement, but the sun is going down so you’re trying to speed things up. Just as the light dims, everything suddenly starts getting brighter. You look up and...
  • By: Laurence Tognetti, MSc (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/laurencetognetti)
  • On: Tue, 19 May 2026 04:51 +0000

Farming in Ancient Lake Agassiz

Reported by NASA

The glacial lake left a layer of silt and clay in southeastern Manitoba, creating fertile farmland that was divided during 19th-century land surveys and is still farmed today....
  • By: NASA
  • On: Tue, 19 May 2026 04:01 +0000

Astronomers Find New Circumbinary "Tatooine-like" Planet Candidates

Reported by Universe Today

There's a distinct category of exoworlds out there that orbit two stars. They're called "circumbinary" planets and up until recently, astronomers had only found about 18 of them among the 6000+ other known exoplanets and candidates. Now, a team at the Univ...
  • By: Carolyn Collins Petersen (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/cc-petersen)
  • On: Tue, 19 May 2026 00:45 +0000

Curiosity Blog, Sols 4893-4899: Drilling at Campo Marte and a Visit From the Psyche Spacecraft

Reported by NASA

Written by Lucy Lim, Planetary Scientist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Earth planning date: Friday, May 15, 2026 After freeing the rover’s arm from the “Atacama” block, we are ready to drill again! The new drill target will represent the same g...
  • By: NASA
  • On: Tue, 19 May 2026 00:33 +0000