Asteroids floating in space for millions of years have been studied, new developments have taken place regarding the possibility of life on Venus, new systems containing Earth-like planets have been discovered… Let’s take a look at the important space discoveries and critical developments made over the past month!
Satellites, spacecraft, and sky-watching satellites sent across space giant telescopes And thanks to the observatories, we are making many new discoveries about space every day. It is getting harder and harder to follow these developments.
In the past month, there have been plenty of discoveries about space, important developments it happened. A monthly full of news from asteroids, Earth-like planets and research that sheds light on our Solar System. to the space agenda Let’s take a look together…
Space news in the past month
An almost 4.5 billion-year-old pristine primordial asteroid has been studied for the first time: It has been discovered to be composed of materials that make up the planets in our Solar System.
The Japanese Spacecraft Hayabusa2 set off for an important mission in 2014 and will continue in 2018. Ryugu had reached the asteroid. Samples from the asteroid returned to our planet at the end of 2020 and have been studied ever since.
What makes the samples obtained from Ryugu special is, for the first time in history, untouched for billions of years. primitive and without any interference that they were taken from a material that has existed in the vacuum of space. The results are equally impressive.
Research teams working on Ryugu with many different methods have determined that this asteroid Since our Solar System began to form only 5 million years later reveals to occur. As you know, our Solar System began to form 4.6 billion years ago, which shows that Ryugu is also almost 4.6 billion years old.
Another remarkable detail about Ryugu, apart from his age, is The fact that it consists of the same substances that make up our Solar System and naturally the Earth. Professor Hisayoshi Yurimoto, who is part of the research team, summarizes this situation with the words ‘Ryugu is one of the building blocks of the Earth’.
The results of research and results on Ryugu Many questions about the formation of planets thought to be the answer.
NASA assembles a science team to study images of ‘unidentified sky phenomena’ that took over the spotlight with Pentagon verification
The Pentagon has confirmed the existence of images by making statements about various unidentified flying object images over the past year. Although research on its origin has not found evidence that the ‘things’ in the images are extraterrestrial or point to an intelligent alien civilization, what are these objects a matter of great interest.
According to some, these images reflected on the cameras of the soldiers are vehicles belonging to aliens. possibilities such as light refractions or advanced, secret human technology. is also focused on.
But there are many unanswered questions on the subject. To answer these questions, NASA formed a team of scientists. In the works that will start in the fall, these objects that do not belong to anything we can identify resources will be explored. During the study, the team will benefit from artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies.
What makes the decision important is that it essentially breaks down the taboos on this issue, which seems to be ‘not a scientific issue’. Creating a different workspace and creating a safe space for diversity in space studies. It is really critical, given what we can learn in the future, that such topics, which the scientific community has ridiculed in the past, can be researched by a team of valuable scientists.
An important discovery has been made that will change and expand the search for extraterrestrial life.
As far as we have observed so far, the only habitable planet is Earth. But of course this It does not mean that there are no other habitable planets. We can only look at a tiny fraction of a universe yet with limited means.
In this way, scientists are looking at planets and systems that may be more ‘point-of-point’ by making some narrowing downs. One of his focuses was on studying stars with Sun-like structures. But almost half of the Sun-like sized stars are binary star systems. However, until now, binary star systems have not been very suitable for planet formation. It was thought to be unsuitable for life.
A new study of planetary systems, the results of which are shared around binary stars around lone stars like the sun He proposes that it formed differently than it did, and that these differences could affect the life-supporting potential of a binary star system.
Jes Kristian Jørgensen, the lead author of the study, one of the scientists who conducted the research, stated the situation in his statement on the subject.The result is exciting because the search for extraterrestrial life will be equipped with several new, extremely powerful tools in the years to come. This adds to the importance of understanding how planets form around different types of stars. Such results to investigate the existence of life can identify places that will be particularly interesting’‘ he sums up.
Shared the most detailed three-dimensional map of our Galaxy ever: From the expansion of the universe to the death of stars, important data was presented
In the last month, very important data came from the Gaia mission, which was launched by the European Space Agency to better understand our galaxy. The Milky Way Galaxy so far The most detailed and largest three-dimensional map shared.
The map and the data presented naturally caused great excitement in the scientific world. The data presented in the research the history and formation of our galaxy It is thought to provide important information about It is also stated that the data obtained from Gaia will be a great source for topics such as the expansion of the universe, the formation and death of stars, asteroids and their satellites.
Another detailed map came from the Moon: China has produced the most detailed map of the Moon
China, using both the data it has obtained from its own Moon missions in the last 15 years and the data of countries such as the USA, India and Japan. A high resolution and detailed map of the Moon took it out.
The map, which reveals the geological layers, structural features and chronology of the lunar surface, includes all the structures found on the Moon such as craters, basins and rock formations. the future of the map Manned and unmanned missions on the moon It is said to be beneficial. It is also stated that it will provide information on the formation, development and geological features of the Moon.
A planetary system that hosts Earth-like planets and is ‘only’ 33 light-years away has been discovered
According to the data obtained from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission, which NASA continues to search for exoplanets, scientists are located very close to our galaxy, about 33 light-years away discovered a planetary system.
The discovery, which was detected in late 2021 and has continued to be confirmed since then, was finally confirmed and announced recently. While it was stated that there are at least two Earth-like planets in the system, it was stated that these planets are not suitable for life. 1.2 and 1.5 times the size of the Earth The orbital periods of the stars of these two planets are 2.8 and 5.7 days, respectively.
Images of a star ‘destroying’ surrounding planets have been recorded for the first time in history
The Hubble Space Telescope detects planets and planets in its system. ‘devouring’ celestial bodies and captured images of a destroying white dwarf star.
This star, named G238-44, 86 light-years from Earth, destroyed all its surroundings before it exploded. in the phase of swallowing celestial bodies Caught in the Hubble Space Telescope. According to the statements of the scientists involved in the study, a star that ‘swallows’ by affecting a wide area as they observed in G238-44 is displayed for the first time.
Jupiter found to ‘swallow’ surrounding celestial bodies while in formation
We know very little about Jupiter, the largest and most mysterious planet in the Solar System. We do not know exactly how Jupiter, which is a gas giant and has a surface due to the huge gas clouds around it, and if so, we are not even sure what surface it is. Only One of the first formed planets of the Solar System we’re sure it is.
However, we are trying to increase our knowledge on this subject with data from the spacecraft Juno. The latest information shows that Jupiter grew by ‘swallowing’ the celestial bodies and planetary bodies around it as it formed. With this study, the team finally got an idea of what lies behind Jupiter’s gas layer. The ‘rocky’ region at the center of Jupiter he mapped out. It is stated that the data collected will help us better understand both Jupiter and planets such as Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.
An object that looks like a ‘small galaxy’ has been discovered in the center of the Milky Way
In an observation made with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile, it is at the center of our galaxy. what looks like a ‘small galaxy’ An object has been discovered. It was discovered that this celestial body, which looks like a mini-galactic spiral in the images, is a huge and young star.
Young stars and those around them that have accompanied them for millions of years as fuel. ‘gas discs’ actually appear in abundance throughout the universe. But what makes this star and the gas disk around it intriguing is that it is the first time such an observation has been made so close to the center of another galaxy. The formation of the star, its interaction with the celestial bodies around it and its effects on our galaxy continue to be investigated.
NASA prepares to send tiny floating robots to ocean-covered planets
Especially planets and moons, which are covered with huge ice sheets and huge oceans underneath, are among the celestial bodies that draw our attention most in the search for life. But It is not that easy to cross the ice sheets or to examine the oceans.
Ethan Schaler, a robotic mechanical engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. entitled to receive a fund of 600 thousand dollars his new project proposes a very logical way to study the oceans of planets by crossing huge ice floes; tiny floating robots.
These tiny robots, which are still under development, will be in our Solar System and perhaps even in the coming years. search for life on exoplanets It will help us to better understand the study of planets and the structures of planets.