Three Baby Planets in Our Galaxy Discovered and Two More Cool Steps We Made This Week to Be Closer to Space
Space holds so many secrets and yet the humanity knows only a few of them. Each week Nexter.org prepares a new dose of space news and latest discoveries that make us one step closer to space.
Chinese moon photos
In May, China launched two small microsatellites, called Longjiang-1 and Longjiang-2, into orbit around the moon.
One of the spacecraft took a stunning photo of Earth and the moon using a Saudi Arabian camera system.
The microsatellites were part of a mission to launch a lunar relay satellite called Queqiao, which China will use to communicate with a rover that may be the first to explore the moon’s far side.
Source:Â CNSA/KACST (via CCTV News)
Three baby planets in our galaxy
With the help of the world’s most expensive ground-based telescope, two teams of astronomers are convinced they’ve discovered three baby planets.
The young planets orbit a star called HD 163296, which is located about 330 million light years away from us in the constellation of Sagittarius (The Archer).
It’s the first time the $1.4 billion Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) telescope has discovered new planets, thanks to a special technique to help hunt them down.
Source: ESO, ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO); PINTE
Dust storm on Mars
A huge dust storm that’s now 14-million square miles wide, covering a full quarter of the red planet, has blotted out the sun above Perseverance Valley, Opportunity’s home. The storm could actually become a global tempest in the days to come, according to NASA.
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Source:Â Â NASA
New cool pictures of Earth
Almost three months after launching into space, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) latest weather satellite, called GOES-17, sent us its first official images of our planet.
Source:Â NOAA / NASA
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