Have we found the first exomoon … around a brown dwarf?
Reported by Space | EarthSky
Have astronomers found the first exomoon? We think of moons as objects that orbit planets. So what do we call this object, which orbits a brown dwarf?
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- By: Space | EarthSky
- On: Wed, 22 Jul 2026 15:56 +0000
Chandrasekhar and the Limits of Physics, Part 3: Exile and Beauty
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Driven from Europe by the feud, Chandrasekhar rebuilt his life in America and turned mastery-and-move-on into an art form. On his conviction that beautiful physics is true physics, and the two students he drove through blizzards to teach....
- By: Paul Sutter (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/pmsutter)
- On: Wed, 22 Jul 2026 15:40 +0000
Mapping Io’s Hidden Heat With NASA’s Juno
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Description This graphic illustrates the areas of Jupiter’s moon Io sampled by the Microwave Radiometer (MWR) instrument aboard NASA’s Juno spacecraft during two close flybys. The black overlapping lines show the instrument’s footprints during Perijo...
- By: NASA
- On: Wed, 22 Jul 2026 15:00 +0000
NASA’s Juno Peers Beneath Io’s Surface
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Description This map represents data captured by the Microwave Radiometer (MWR) aboard NASA’s Juno spacecraft, indicating heat rising from just beneath the surface of Jupiter’s moon Io. While infrared instruments measure the temperature of the moon’s...
- By: NASA
- On: Wed, 22 Jul 2026 14:58 +0000
NASA’s Juno Takes Temperature of Jupiter’s Fiery Moon Io
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NASA’s Juno mission has provided the first measurements of the temperature below the surface of Jupiter’s moon Io, revealing significant heating within the shallow subsurface of the most volcanically active world in the solar system. Collected du...
- By: NASA
- On: Wed, 22 Jul 2026 14:54 +0000
NASA Joins Genesis Mission to Accelerate AI-Driven Discovery
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NASA is supporting the Genesis Mission, a national effort to drive the use of artificial intelligence in tackling complex scientific and engineering challenges to advance a new era of discovery. President Donald J. Trump issued the Executive Order “Launc...
- By: NASA
- On: Wed, 22 Jul 2026 14:04 +0000