Astronomy Daily: Space News Updates

Astronomy Daily: Space News Updates

Professor Fred Watson & Andrew Dunkley

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The Great Water Mystery: Jezero Crater and the Hunt for Mars' Hidden History
Astronomy Daily: Space News UpdatesSeptember 23, 202600:26:38

The Great Water Mystery: Jezero Crater and the Hunt for Mars' Hidden History

Perseverance drove to the edge of an ancient Martian lake expecting a beach and found the inside of a volcano — rock that water has been through at least three separate times. Europe's Jupiter probe c...

What Keeps a Galaxy Churning: Andromeda's Supernova Secrets Revealed
Astronomy Daily: Space News UpdatesSeptember 22, 202600:28:02

What Keeps a Galaxy Churning: Andromeda's Supernova Secrets Revealed

Supernovae keep galaxies churning A new study led by Fan Yi Meng from Tsinghua University provides the first comprehensive census of superbubbles in the Andromeda Galaxy, revealing that clustered supe...

The Unifying Mystery of Black Hole Jets: Stellar and Supermassive Connections
Astronomy Daily: Space News UpdatesSeptember 19, 202600:33:37

The Unifying Mystery of Black Hole Jets: Stellar and Supermassive Connections

SHOW NOTES Black hole jets follow one universal rule Adelle Goodwin (Curtin University / ICRAR, Forrest Research Foundation Fellow) and Andrew Mummery (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton) show th...

The Youngest Planet Ever Found
Astronomy Daily: Space News UpdatesSeptember 18, 202600:33:40

The Youngest Planet Ever Found

Astronomers have confirmed the youngest planet ever found - Elias 2-24 b, less than a million years old, sitting inside a gap it is carving in its own birth disc 450 light-years away. Plus: the Lunar ...

Roman Opens Its Eye
Astronomy Daily: Space News UpdatesSeptember 17, 202600:31:49

Roman Opens Its Eye

First starlight from Roman, a shorter fuse on the Solar System, weapons in orbit, and a globular cluster hiding behind the dust Roman opens its eye — and finds it has twice as long to look NASA has ac...

The Evolving Enigma of Dark Energy and the Sun's Mysterious Past
Astronomy Daily: Space News UpdatesSeptember 15, 202600:29:54

The Evolving Enigma of Dark Energy and the Sun's Mysterious Past

An Australian-led team has rebuilt thirty years of supernova observations into one consistent catalogue — and it adds fresh weight to the idea that dark energy is not constant. We also ask whether the...