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Indian schoolgirls discover asteroid moving toward Earth

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The 10th graders were working on a school project when they discovered the asteroid, which is slowly shifting its orbit and moving towards Earth.

Two Indian schoolgirls have discovered an asteroid which is slowly shifting its orbit and moving toward Earth.

Radhika Lakhani and Vaidehi Vekariya, both studying in 10th grade, were working on a school project when they discovered the asteroid, which they named HLV2514.

The girls, from the city of Surat in the western Indian state of Gujarat, were participating in a Space India and NASA project, which allows students to analyze images taken by a telescope positioned at the University of Hawaii.

As Comet NEOWISE Fades Fast, A Halley-Type Comet Is Seen That May Peak During America’s Next Eclipse

As the world tries to see and photograph Comet NEOWISE (or check-out this week’s extra-bright rings of Saturn), a comet similar to Halley’s comet—last seen in 1954—has been found by astronomers using a telescope in Arizona.

They’ve calculated that comet 12P/Pons-Brooks will return to the Solar System in April 2024—which is when a total solar eclipse will next be observable from Mexico, the US and Canada.

Researchers offer unprecedented look into ‘central engine’ powering a solar flare

In a study published in Nature Astronomy, an international team of researchers has presented a new, detailed look inside the “central engine” of a large solar flare accompanied by a powerful eruption first captured on Sept. 10, 2017 by the Owens Valley Solar Array (EOVSA)—a solar radio telescope facility operated by New Jersey Institute of Technology’s (NJIT) Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research (CSTR).

The new findings, based on EOVSA’s observations of the event at microwave wavelengths, offer the first measurements characterizing the magnetic fields and particles at the heart of the explosion. The results have revealed an enormous electric current “sheet” stretching more than 40,000 kilometers through the core flaring region where opposing lines approach each other, break and reconnect, generating the intense powering the .

Notably, the team’s measurements also indicate a magnetic bottle-like structure located at the top of the flare’s loop-shaped base (known as the flare arcade) at a height of nearly 20,000 kilometers above the Sun’s surface. The structure, the team suggests, is likely the primary site where the flare’s highly are trapped and accelerated to nearly the speed of light.

#EZScience Episode 9 Part 2: Mars Perseverance Rover Will Look for Signs of Ancient Life

🔎 Part of NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover mission is to survey Mars’ geology for signs of ancient life, but what does that entail? Where will she search?

Find out in this episode of #EZScience with Dr. Thomas Zurbuchen of NASA and Dr. Ellen Stofan of the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution: https://youtu.be/McqMigM_YG8

#CountdownToMars

Paul Ziolo — interview

Interviewed by mika curtis, for the space renaissance academy mentorship programme.

We are honored and proud to publish this interview with Prof. Paul Ziolo, Psychohistorian, Senior Lecturer at the University of Liverpool, who kindly accepted to reply to some questions about his role as a Mentor of the Space Renaissance Academy. https://youtu.be/1UDJB7DS1Lo

The Space Renaissance Academy Mentorship Programme is a wide and very ambitious initiative. Our goal is to provide help to all students willing to have an active role in the incoming space settlement! We are realizing short video-recorded interviews to our Mentors: in 15 minutes, our anchorwomen are asking them about their interest for human expansion into space, their vision and how they think to motivate and inspire young generations to engage in space settlement. The SRI Volunteers team: Bharathi Sharma, Sachika Bhatia (Space Renaissance India), Corrinne Graham (Space Renaissance USA), Mika Curtis (Space Renaissance UK).

Here’s a presentation of the SR Academy Mentorship Programme. https://spacerenaissance.space/the-space-renaissance-acade…/

You are also invited, if you didn’t yet, to check our updated questionnaires about Mentorship Disciplines and Themes for Graduate Theses, indicating your preferred disciplines and themes. https://spacerenaissance.space/themes-for-graduate-works/ https://spacerenaissance.space/themes-for-graduate-works/

Don’t forget to subscribe to the SRI youtube channel! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7nbRtSj7Q2q_MWRtFws3gA

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Mould from Chernobyl nuclear reactor tested as radiation shield on ISS

A radiation-absorbing fungus found at the destroyed Chernobyl nuclear reactor has been shown to absorb harmful cosmic rays on the International Space Station, and could potentially be used to protect future Mars colonies.

Exposure to cosmic rays poses a major health risk to astronauts leaving Earth’s protective atmosphere. Shields can be made out of stainless steel and other materials, but they must be shipped from Earth, which is difficult and costly.

ASTHROS: NASA to release football field-size stratospheric balloon to study cosmos — check details

The ASTHROS mission will be carried on a big balloon that will be about 150 meters wide — or roughly the size of a football stadium — and will be inflated with helium. A carrier below the balloon will hold the instruments and the telescope. During its flight, it will allow scientists to control the direction of the telescope with precision and download the data in real-time using satellite links.

The ASTHROS team expects that stratospheric winds will help the balloon complete two to three loops around the South Pole in approximately 21 to 28 days. Once complete, the parachute will return the carrier to the ground and the telescope will be recovered and refurbished for future missions.

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