We are looking for more observatories and amateur astronomers who might want to join the project.
The Habitable Exoplanet Hunting Project is a worldwide network of amateur astronomers searching for new potentially habitable exoplanets. The project is coordinating over 20 observatories located in 5 continents.
They are searching for habitable exoplanets around non-flare G, K and M-type stars located within 100 ly.
The stars being monitored already have known transiting exoplanets, but none of them are potentially habitable.
This project is monitoring each star 24/7 for several months. By doing so, they believe that the chances of finding an exoplanet increase for particular targets. Moreover, they are focusing on stars closer than 100 light years because, on the one hand, the closest habitable exoplanets will be the first destinations of interstellar missions and, on the other, because very few nearby habitable exoplanets around G and K-type stars have been discovered: only 2 of them.
The number of potentially habitable exoplanets that could be discovered is, in theory, around 25. This calculation was obtained by taking into account the number of non-flare stars within 100 light years and the percentage of them that should show transits in the habitable zone.
Each observatory observes the same star and, when the transit of a hypothetical habitable exoplanet becomes unlikely, we move to another star.
Within 100 light years, we only found 10 non-flare G, K and M-type stars with known transiting exoplanets not potentially habitable.
Big telescopes are not necessary, but CCD cameras with a resolution of at least 16 bits are advisable because we are searching for exoplanets that produce a change of brightness in the star of around 0.1%.
We are looking for more observatories and amateur astronomers who might want to join the project.
The Habitable Exoplanet Hunting Project is a worldwide network of amateur astronomers searching for new potentially habitable exoplanets. The project is coordinating over 20 observatories located in 5 continents.
They are searching for habitable exoplanets around non-flare G, K and M-type stars located within 100 ly.
The stars being monitored already have known transiting exoplanets, but none of them are potentially habitable.
This project is monitoring each star 24/7 for several months. By doing so, they believe that the chances of finding an exoplanet increase for particular targets. Moreover, they are focusing on stars closer than 100 light years because, on the one hand, the closest habitable exoplanets will be the first destinations of interstellar missions and, on the other, because very few nearby habitable exoplanets around G and K-type stars have been discovered: only 2 of them.
The number of potentially habitable exoplanets that could be discovered is, in theory, around 25. This calculation was obtained by taking into account the number of non-flare stars within 100 light years and the percentage of them that should show transits in the habitable zone.
Each observatory observes the same star and, when the transit of a hypothetical habitable exoplanet becomes unlikely, we move to another star.
Within 100 light years, we only found 10 non-flare G, K and M-type stars with known transiting exoplanets not potentially habitable.
Big telescopes are not necessary, but CCD cameras with a resolution of at least 16 bits are advisable because we are searching for exoplanets that produce a change of brightness in the star of around 0.1%.
Join our free Discord server for always-on chat action! discord.gg/nqGpvtKEpsilon Indi Ab: A Twin of JupiterDeep Astronomy2024-09-17 | An international team of astronomers has directly imaged this exoplanet, one of the coldest ever seen. The team observed Epsilon Indi Ab using the coronagraph on Webb’s Mid-Infrared Instrument. Only a few tens of exoplanets have ever been directly imaged by space- and ground-based observatories. These observations are ushering in a completely new era in exoplanet research. Show Notes Available at exoplanetradio.com/exoplanets/epsilon-indi-Ab/.The Rogue Planets of JWSTDeep Astronomy2024-09-06 | The Orion Nebula, M42, is the largest stellar nursery close to Earth. Within this massive complex some 1300 light years away, the James Webb Space Telescope has unveiled hundreds of Jupiter-sized rogue planets roaming freely here. Show Notes Available at exoplanetradio.com/discoveries/rogue-planets-jwst/.Exoplanet Secondary Eclipses: Catching a Planet in the Shadows | Exoplanet Radio ep 41Deep Astronomy2023-10-11 | Over the course of this show, we’ve talked many many times about the Transit Method for detecting exoplanets. It is simply the measure of a star's decrease in brightness as the star passes through our line of sight. This once difficult measurement has now become commonplace and can even be done with advanced amateur astronomy equipment under a reasonably dark sky.
From this measurement, we can infer a few things about the planets passing by: we can get an indication of its size and if we measure several transits, we can get the period of the orbit around the host star. We can also get an estimate of the period and eccentricity of the orbit by the width of the dip in the light curve.
But there is another, even more difficult measurement we can make using transit telescopes that are an important tool for learning about planets around other stars: exoplanet secondary eclipses.
Join our Chat on Discord here: discord.gg/Fn6jSVQ8dSHow Long Will Life on Earth Last? | Exoplanet Radio ep 42Deep Astronomy2023-10-09 | How long before the Earth becomes uninhabitable for all life? This is a reasonable question to ask in the context of our search for life elsewhere because it gives us a framework within which we might expect to discover life on exoplanets.
Nothing lasts forever, stars live and die over the course of hundreds of millions to billions, and in the case of red dwarf stars, trillions of years. Planets are born from the remnants of their parent stars and die over a shorter timescale. Life on those planets, if it exists, is presumed to be shorter still, governed entirely by the environments provided by the combination of the star and planetary characteristics. How long life lasts there ultimately depends on how long the star lives and how it dies.
Using our solar system as an example, since we know life arose here, how long will it last? Astronomers think they have an answer.
Join our Chat on Discord here: discord.gg/Fn6jSVQ8dSBiosignatures: The Search for Life Beyond Earth | Exoplanet Radio ep 39Deep Astronomy2023-10-04 | In recent years, scientists have made great strides in the search for extraterrestrial life. They have discovered thousands of exoplanets. And some of them are located in the habitable zone of their star, which means that liquid water could exist on their surface and is essential for life as we know it.
The search for life however, is a little more involved than finding planets, measuring their location and distance around the star and figuring out their location within a habitable zone.
Join our Chat on Discord here: discord.gg/Fn6jSVQ8dSOsiris: The Exoplanet That Changed Everything | Exoplanet Radio ep 37Deep Astronomy2023-10-02 | The planet is HD 209458 b, and nicknamed "Osiris" after the Egyptian god of the underworld. Osiris is a fitting nickname for this planet, as it is a very hot and hostile world. HD 209458 b orbits its star very closely, and its surface temperature is estimated to be around 1,000 degrees Celsius. This makes it too hot for liquid water to exist on its surface, and it is unlikely to be habitable.
Even so, this planet is remarkable in many ways. It occupies first place in a long list of discovery milestones.
Join our Chat on Discord here: discord.gg/Fn6jSVQ8dSDwarflab Dwarf 2 Smart Telescope: Beginners Gateway to the Cosmos, Even in the CityDeep Astronomy2023-09-28 | Here is the Deep Astronomy Review of the Dwarf II smart telescope from Dwarflabs.
Join our Chat on Discord here: discord.gg/Fn6jSVQ8dSThe First Hycean World? JWST Turns to K2-18 b | Exoplanet Radio ep 38Deep Astronomy2023-09-18 | The James Webb Space Telescope has completed observations of an exoplanet that may contain an ocean-covered surface underneath a hydrogen-rich atmosphere. This discovery provides a fascinating glimpse into a planet unlike anything in our Solar System, and raises interesting prospects about potentially habitable worlds elsewhere in the Universe.
The exoplanet is called K2-18 b, and it's located about 120 light-years away from us in the constellation Leo. It is bigger than Earth, but not as big as Neptune, putting this exoplanet in a class called sub-Neptunes, one of the most common types of exoplanets we’ve found. It orbits a cool dwarf star called K2-18 in the habitable zone, which means it could have liquid water on its surface. But what's really amazing is that Webb has detected **methane** and **carbon dioxide** in its atmosphere. These are carbon-bearing molecules that could indicate the presence of life, or at least some interesting chemistry.
Join our Chat on Discord here: discord.gg/Fn6jSVQ8dSA Glimpse into the Early Stages of Planetary Evolution | Exoplanet Radio ep 36Deep Astronomy2023-09-14 | Deep in the cosmos, NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has discovered four new worlds orbiting a pair of young stars. These planets are providing scientists with a glimpse into a little-understood stage of planetary evolution - the time when atmospheres are being formed.
Join our Chat on Discord here: discord.gg/Fn6jSVQ8dSTidally Locked Worlds: Life in the Twilight Zone | Exoplanet Radio ep 34Deep Astronomy2023-09-12 | Based on our experience here on Earth, we know life here to be tenacious and ubiquitous. Even in the harshest climates, if we look hard enough, we can usually find some sort of life there. We are hoping the same is true on worlds around other stars, and recent research has begun looking into the question of whether life on other worlds could exist in the most inhospitable environs: the terminator zone of tidally locked planets.
Join our Chat on Discord here: discord.gg/Fn6jSVQ8dSWhat is the Habitable Worlds Observatory? | Exoplanet Radio ep 33Deep Astronomy2023-09-08 | Finding habitable worlds has been a driving passion since we first learned there were other planets out there, and to find them, we are going to need a dedicated instrument that does nothing else but tries to locate and characterize them.
Join our Chat on Discord here: discord.gg/Fn6jSVQ8dSTESSs Breakthrough Discovery of Long-Period Exoplanets TOI 4600 b and c | Exoplanet Radio ep 32Deep Astronomy2023-09-07 | Human beings have discovered over five thousand five hundred exoplanets. Over 80 percent of them have orbits shorter than 50 days which would place them at over twice as close to their star as Mercury is to the Sun. Some are even closer. Recent observations from TESS however have found one with an orbit of 82 days and another measured in hundreds of days.
Join our Chat on Discord here: discord.gg/Fn6jSVQ8dSAstronomers Confirm Proxima Centauri b is Not A Transit Exoplanet | Exoplanet Radio ep 31Deep Astronomy2023-09-06 | Astronomers have recently concluded an observation study of the closest exoplanet to Earth, Proxima Centauri b and found that the planet does not transit its star. These observations settle a question that astronomers have been asking since the exoplanet's discovery in 2016 using the radial velocity method.
Join our Chat on Discord here: discord.gg/Fn6jSVQ8dSThe Many Earth-sized Worlds of TOI-700 | Exoplanet Radio ep 30Deep Astronomy2023-08-30 | TRAPPIST-1 has held our attention for a long time because it has so many rocky worlds orbiting a star that may allow some of them to have liquid water. The promise of life is too great to ignore, so we turn our most powerful telescopes to this system whenever possible.
Now there’s been a new system on the block. The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS, has brought us the discovery of a system that is every bit as interesting as TRAPPIST-1.
Join our Chat on Discord here: discord.gg/Fn6jSVQ8dSMeet TrES-2b (aka Kepler-1b): The Planet That Reflects Almost No Light | Exoplanet Radio ep 29Deep Astronomy2023-08-29 | This planet was discovered in August 2006 by the Trans-Atlantic Exoplanet Survey. It became the very first planet observed by the Kepler Space Telescope with the designation Kepler-1b.
Kepler-1b is a gas giant that is slightly larger than Jupiter and has one and a half times its mass, but orbits much closer to its star than Mercury does to our Sun. It takes only 2.5 days to complete one orbit, meaning that its year is very short. It also rotates synchronously with its star, meaning that one side always faces the star and the other side always faces away. This creates a huge temperature difference between the day and night sides, which can reach up to 1,500 degrees Celsius.
Join our Chat on Discord here: discord.gg/Fn6jSVQ8dSHow Starshades Will Help Find New Worlds | Exoplanet Radio ep 28Deep Astronomy2023-08-28 | A starshade is a large, deployable structure that looks a lot like a gigantic flower that blocks out the light from a star, allowing a telescope to see the fainter light from an orbiting planet. Starshades are still in the development stage, but they have the potential to revolutionize the field of exoplanet research.
Join our Chat on Discord here: discord.gg/Fn6jSVQ8dSThe Roman Space Telescope will Revolutionize our Understanding of Exoplanets | Exoplanet Radio ep 27Deep Astronomy2023-08-25 | The next big milestone in our study of exoplanets is a telescope that can see beyond the limits of our eyes, beyond the boundaries of our solar system, beyond the frontiers of our knowledge. A telescope that can reveal the secrets of the stars and the mysteries of the planets. A telescope that can take us closer to finding another home in the cosmos. That telescope is the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, a NASA observatory that is scheduled to launch in May 2027 and explore a wide range of astronomical phenomena, including exoplanets.
Join our Chat on Discord here: discord.gg/Fn6jSVQ8dSIs TRAPPIST-1 c Habitable? New Webb Telescope Observations Suggest Not | Exoplanet Radio ep 26Deep Astronomy2023-08-24 | A team of astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope to study the exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 c, which is one of seven rocky planets orbiting an ultracool red dwarf star 40 light-years from Earth. The team found that the planet's atmosphere, if it exists at all, is extremely thin.
TRAPPIST-1 c is about the same size as Venus and receives a similar amount of radiation from its host star as Venus gets from the Sun. This led scientists to believe that the planet might have a thick carbon dioxide atmosphere like Venus. However, the Webb observations suggest that this is not the case.
Join our Chat on Discord here: discord.gg/Fn6jSVQ8dSTrillions of Worlds WIthout Stars | Exoplanet Radio ep 25Deep Astronomy2023-08-23 | Astronomers estimate that there are more free roaming planets in our galaxy than there are planets in orbit around stars.
In fact, rogue exoplanets - planets with no star whatsoever - far outnumber all other planets in our galaxy, by 20 times. Trillions of worlds wandering alone.
Astronomers have reached this conclusion based on the results of a nine year survey that looked at special events that occur when an object such as a star or planet comes into near-perfect alignment with an unrelated background star from our vantage point.
Join our Chat on Discord here: discord.gg/Fn6jSVQ8dSHow Common Are Habitable Exoplanets? | Exoplanet Radio ep 24Deep Astronomy2023-08-22 | One of the big questions we are trying to answer in exoplanet astronomy is: Just how common are habitable planets? We already know that exoplanets themselves are extremely common: Astronomers tell us there are on average 1.6 planets for every star in our galaxy, so there are more planets than stars out there.
That by itself is pretty amazing, but what we really want to know is, where’s the life? How common are planets that could potentially support life?
Join our Chat on Discord here: discord.gg/Fn6jSVQ8dSKELT-9b: The Hottest Known Exoplanet | Exoplanet Radio ep 23Deep Astronomy2023-08-21 | Kelt-9b is a gas giant planet that orbits a star 670 light-years from Earth. It is so close to its star that its dayside temperature is 7,800 degrees Fahrenheit (4,300 degrees Celsius), hotter than some stars. This heat is so intense that it rips apart the molecules in the planet's atmosphere, including hydrogen gas.
HAT-P-67-b seems to fit the bill. It is 1,200 light years from Earth and has a radius that is a little over twice that of Jupiters’. It orbits its host star very closely, only 10 million kilometers away and has a year that is almost 5 days long. The star itself, HAT-P-67, is an F-type star that is one and a half times the mass of the Sun and about two and a half times larger.
Music by GeoDesium: lochnessproductions.com Join our Chat on Discord here: discord.gg/Fn6jSVQ8dSJWST Takes First Direct Image of an Exoplanet | Exoplanet Radio ep 21Deep Astronomy2023-08-16 | #jwst has 248,000 microshutters that can open and close individually and when used in unison, create a mask that can cover the disk of a star. There are five masks on the infrared camera and four on the infrared spectrograph. When the light from the bright host star is blocked by these masks, the reflected light from the planet can be seen.
Join our Chat on Discord here: discord.gg/Fn6jSVQ8dSTRAPPIST-1d: A World on the Edge of Life | Exoplanet Radio ep 20Deep Astronomy2023-08-15 | TRAPPIST-1d is a rocky, Earth-like planet, meaning that it is roughly the same size and mass as our home.
TRAPPIST-1d has a radius that is about three quarters the size of Earth, and a comparable mass just a little heavier. Planets like this are of intense interest to astronomers because they are so like our own. In many respects, this planet is the most habitable exoplanet found so far. It is not large enough to retain light gasses like hydrogen and helium, which could destroy nascent life and it is comfortably situated in the star’s habitable zone.
Join our Chat on Discord here: discord.gg/Fn6jSVQ8dSDirect Imaging Exoplanets in Our Telescopes | Exoplanet Radio ep 19Deep Astronomy2023-08-14 | One of the reasons we’ve created Exoplanet Radio is that Exoplanets are awesome. The idea that there are planets in orbit around stars outside our solar system - and even rogue planets that do not orbit a star meandering through interstellar space - is one that cannot help but capture our imagination. The thing is, finding them is very hard. They are small and dim compared to stars so we need to rely on indirect methods to see them like looking for dips in brightness or a wobbling star, or, in the case of rogue planets with no stars, tiny flashes of light from background stars. But ideally, we’d like to see them directly, in our telescopes. Is that possible? You probably guessed I wouldn’t have brought up the question if the answer wasn’t ‘yes’.
Join our Chat on Discord here: discord.gg/Fn6jSVQ8dSJWST Observes a New Type of Brown Dwarf | Exoplanet Radio ep 18Deep Astronomy2023-08-11 | Imagine a planet that is so far away from us that it takes 40 years for its light to reach us. Now imagine that this planet has not one, but two stars that it orbits around. And finally, imagine that this planet has clouds made of sand particles that change the brightness of its atmosphere wildly as they move in the air.
This planet, VHS 1256 b, has recently been observed by the James Webb Space Telescope and it is a very interesting world. It is not like any of the planets in our solar system, or even like most of the planets that we have found outside our solar system. It is a type of planet called a brown dwarf, which is somewhere between a giant gas planet and a small star. Brown dwarfs are very hard to study, because they are very faint and cold compared to stars, and very bright and hot compared to planets.
Join our Chat on Discord here: discord.gg/Fn6jSVQ8dSLife in the Dark: How Moons of Rogue Planets Could Harbor Life | Exoplanet Radio ep 17Deep Astronomy2023-08-10 | In our galaxy, there are many planets that wander alone in the dark, without a star to orbit. These rogue planets could have formed from the same material that makes stars, or they could have been kicked out of their original star systems by gravitational interactions. Some of these rogue planets could have moons which remain in tow, and these moons could be more than just cold and barren rocks.
Join our Chat on Discord here: discord.gg/Fn6jSVQ8dSHow Long To Travel to The Closest Exoplanet Proxima Centauri b? | Exoplanet Radio ep 16Deep Astronomy2023-08-09 | Throughout the course of this podcast, we’ve established the idea that there are a lot of exoplanets in our universe. Some are big, some are small, some are close to their stars, others are very far away. One thing we haven’t said much about though is just how far away they all are.
Many people feel that it’s very important for humanity’s long term survival that we become a multiplanet species. Traveling to and possibly even inhabiting other planets in our solar system is not only possible with our current levels of technology, but compared to going to the stars, it’s downright easy.
But what about traveling to exoplanets? Can we reach the stars?
Join the chat on Discord here: discord.gg/Fn6jSVQ8dSA Giant Planet Found Orbiting a Small Star | Exoplanet Radio ep 15Deep Astronomy2023-08-08 | A massive, Jupiter-sized exoplanet has been discovered orbiting a small, low-mass star and this discovery is challenging theories on how planets form around their stars. The planet, called TOI-4860 b, is about the same size as Jupiter and orbits its star once every 1.5 Earth days, classifying it as a warm Jupiter. This is unusual because planets this large are not supposed to form around low-mass stars.
Join our Chat on Discord here: discord.gg/Fn6jSVQ8dSThe First Exoplanets: A Discovery that Forever Changed Us | Exoplanet Radio ep 14Deep Astronomy2023-08-07 | Our galaxy likely holds hundreds of billions of planets around other stars but when and how did we begin finding them? What was the first exoplanet detected? It turns out that the first discovery wasn’t one, but two planets in the same system.
Join our Chat on Discord here: discord.gg/Fn6jSVQ8dSHow Do We Find Exoplanets? | Exoplanet Radio ep 13Deep Astronomy2023-08-04 | What are the best ways to see planets around other stars? One can imagine that it is not easy. This episode looks at ways astronomers find exoplanets.
Join our Chat on Discord here: discord.gg/Fn6jSVQ8dSWASP-39 b: A Hot and Puffy Gas Giant | Exoplanet Radio ep. 12Deep Astronomy2023-08-03 | WASP-39 b is a hot and puffy planet with a mass roughly one-quarter that of Jupiter and a diameter 1.3 times greater than Jupiter. Its extreme puffiness is related in part to its high temperature of about 1,600 degrees Fahrenheit or 900 degrees Celsius.
Join our Chat on Discord here: discord.gg/Fn6jSVQ8dSTRAPPIST-1: A System Full of Hope | Exoplanet Radio ep 11Deep Astronomy2023-08-02 | Aside from our own solar system, one of the most studied stellar systems lies about 40 light-years away in the direction of the constellation Aquarius. Using ground and space based telescopes like Spitzer, Kepler, Hubble, and, now, the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers are looking hard at the seven rocky exoplanets orbiting the TRAPPIST-1 star.
oin our Chat on Discord here: discord.gg/Fn6jSVQ8dSAn Exoplanet Found in Another Galaxy | Exoplanet Radio ep. 10Deep Astronomy2023-08-01 | Astronomers have found evidence of a possible planet outside of our Milky Way galaxy. If confirmed, this is the first time that a planet has been detected in another galaxy. It is located in the spiral galaxy Messier 51, also called the Whirlpool Galaxy.
Join our Chat on Discord here: discord.gg/Fn6jSVQ8dSThe First Exoplanet of JWST | Exoplanet Radio ep. 9Deep Astronomy2023-07-31 | We have long wondered if we are alone in the cosmos. If there are other worlds like ours, where life might flourish. Now, a new eye in the sky has given us a glimpse of one such world. The James Webb Space Telescope has detected its first exoplanet. Its name is LHS 475b, and astronomers believe it is remarkably similar to our own home planet. It is roughly the same size as Earth, only slightly smaller by a mere 1%.
Join our Chat on Discord here: discord.gg/Fn6jSVQ8dSThe Exoplanet That Shouldnt Exist | Exoplanet Radio ep. 8Deep Astronomy2023-07-28 | Astronomers have found a planet around a red giant star that should have been destroyed, yet it still exists, leaving astronomers to wonder why the planet is still there. So what’s the puzzle?
Music composed by Geodesium and available at lochnessproductions.comProxima Centauri-b: The Closest Exoplanet To Us | Exoplanet Radio ep. 7Deep Astronomy2023-07-27 | Proxima Centauri-b is only 4.5 light years away and may be a good candidate for life.
Also join our Discord Server: discord.gg/Fn6jSVQ8dSHow Many Exoplanets Are There? | Exoplanet Radio ep. 6Deep Astronomy2023-07-26 | Watch and download all episodes at exoplanetradio.comJWST Measures Temperature of TRAPPIST-1b | Exoplanet Radio ep. 5Deep Astronomy2023-07-25 | Catch all episodes on ExoplanetRadio.com!Exoplanets are Everywhere | Exoplanet Radio ep. 4Deep Astronomy2023-07-24 | Watch and download all episodes without ads on exoplanetradio.comKepler-22b: A Planet with a lot of Promise | Exoplanet Radio ep. 3Deep Astronomy2023-07-23 | Watch or download all episodes without ads at exoplanetradio.comKepler-22b: An Exoplanet With a Lot of Promise | Exoplanet RadioDeep Astronomy2023-07-23 | Today's episode contains a bonus Deep Astronomy video produced specially for this topic. Get all episodes ad-free on exoplanetradio.com
Join our Chat on Discord here: discord.gg/nqGpvtKRogue Planets: Not All Exoplanets Orbit Stars | Exoplanet Radio ep. 2Deep Astronomy2023-07-22 | One of the most exciting recent discoveries in astronomy has been the existence of planets around other stars. Called exoplanets, they vary wildly in their characteristics, appearance and behavior.
Most of the over 5000 exoplanets discovered so far are in orbit around other stars, some whiz around their home sun in a matter of only days while others have orbits that last decades or hundred of years.
But there is another interesting class of exoplanets that do not have a home sun. These rogue worlds travel the distance between the stars, they live in the cold, dark interstellar regions of the galaxy.
Watch all episodes without ads and download on exoplanetradio.com Music by Geodesium: lochnessproductions.comWhat is an Exoplanet? | Exoplanet Radio ep. 1Deep Astronomy2023-07-21 | Welcome to the first episode of Exoplanet Radio! I produced a video especially for this episode. Not all episodes will have a full-fledged video associated with it. I'll make those periodically as time warrants.
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No one knows how many black holes there are in the universe. Black holes do not emit any light of their own making them impossible to see directly with telescopes. The only way we can detect black holes is by looking at the effects they have on things we can see.
So, what's the closest one to us? This video shows a viable candidate, closer than all known so far.
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There is a planet so close to its star that its entire year is only a few hours. It is so close that the gravitational force from that star locks the planet’s rotation - forcing one hemisphere into permanent daylight and the other in endless darkness. It is so close that any water oceans that it may have had would have long ago boiled away, the surface rocks melt and the clouds would hold lava rain.
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has peered into the chaos of the Cartwheel Galaxy, revealing new details about star formation and the galaxy’s central black hole. Webb’s powerful infrared gaze produced this detailed image of the Cartwheel and two smaller companion galaxies against a backdrop of many other galaxies. This image provides a new view of how the Cartwheel Galaxy has changed over billions of years.
Join the Deep Astronomy Server on Discord here: discord.gg/nqGpvtKDestination Moon: Developing a Smart Cislunar NeighborhoodDeep Astronomy2022-05-19 | There is impressive breadth and scope of activities across the space enterprise currently underway toward developing the cislunar neighborhood.
More than $7B in funding is being invested, and more than 60 companies and 10 government agencies are developing capabilities for 10 foundational layers of infrastructure.
In this timely discussion, our panelists will discuss challenges and opportunities for the space community associated with designing, developing, and deploying cislunar capabilities aligned with National Space Policy goal of establishing a permanent presence on the Moon.
Tune in to this Future in Space Hangout to hear about and discuss this massive initiative!
Participants:
Tony Darnell, Deep Astronomy (Host) George Pollock, Director, Astrodynamics Department, The Aerospace Corporation Ben Reed, Co-Founder & CTO, Quantum SpaceOptical Communications for Developing A Cislunar NeighborhoodDeep Astronomy2022-02-17 | It’s exciting to see plans and investments U.S. commercial and government organizations are making to develop the cislunar neighborhood. Just like neighborhood developments here on Earth, the cislunar neighborhood needs multiple layers of infrastructure for a sustainable ecosystem on and around the Moon. Companies are planning to deploy foundational communications and data infrastructure to deliver services to government and commercial users. The market for cislunar space services is expected to grow significantly in the coming decade. Recognizing a whole-of-nation approach, there’s synergy in roles for government and private sector. Tune in for this Future in Space Hangout on Optical Communications for Developing a Cislunar Neighborhood to hear more!