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Satellite Events for Tonight

Katie Bisci: Resourcing for Big Science

Reported by NASA

Deputy Project Manager for Resources – Goddard Space Flight Center How are you helping set the stage for the Roman mission? I’m a deputy project manager for resources on the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team, sharing the role with Kris Steeley...
  • By: NASA
  • On: Thu, 28 Aug 2025 12:00 +0000

White Dwarf Stars Could Create Surprisingly Common Long Lived Habitable Zones

Reported by Universe Today

When most stars like the Sun die, they don't go out with a bang, they fade away as white dwarf stars, Earth-sized remnants that slowly cool over billions of years. For decades, it was thought these stellar corpses were poor candidates for hosting life beca...
  • By: Mark Thompson (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/mark)
  • On: Thu, 28 Aug 2025 11:57 +0000

The Great Filter Part 3: This is the End

Reported by Universe Today

What about the middle stages? The march from single-celled organisms doing their single-celled thing to intelligent creatures that can wield tools and leave feedback reviews about them?...
  • By: Paul Sutter (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/pmsutter)
  • On: Thu, 28 Aug 2025 11:57 +0000

Asteroid Bennu Is Like A Time Capsule From The Early Solar System

Reported by Universe Today

New research based on samples from asteroid Bennu show that the asteroid contains materials from throughout the Solar System. Some of its materials are from even more distant realms: the asteroid contains stardust from stars that existed long before our So...
  • By: Evan Gough (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/ion23drive)
  • On: Thu, 28 Aug 2025 11:57 +0000

TESS Spotted 3I/ATLAS Two Months Before It Was Discovered - It Was Even Active Then

Reported by Universe Today

One of the advantages of having so many telescopes watching large parts of the sky is that, if astronomers find something interesting, there are probably images of it from before it was officially discovered sitting in the data archives of other satellites...
  • By: Andy Tomaswick (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/andy-tomaswick)
  • On: Thu, 28 Aug 2025 11:57 +0000

A New Theory of the Universe’s Origins Without Inflation

Reported by Universe Today

How exactly did the universe start and how did these processes determine its formation and evolution? This is what a recent study published in Physical Review Research hopes to address as a team of researchers from Spain and Italy proposed a new model for ...
  • By: Laurence Tognetti, MSc (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/laurencetognetti)
  • On: Thu, 28 Aug 2025 11:57 +0000