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The Number Of Moons Does Saturn Have?

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope caught this picture of Saturn July 4, 2020. 2 of Saturn's icy moons are plainly noticeable in this direct exposure: Mimas at right and Enceladus at the bottom. This image is taken as part of the Outer Planets Atmospheres Legacy (OPAL) job. NASA, ESA, A. Simon (Goddard Space Flight Center), M.H. Wong (University of California, Berkeley), and the OPAL Team There's a race taking place in our planetary system, however it has absolutely nothing to do with gravitational mechanics or speed. Astronomers who study the gas giant worlds of Saturn and Jupiter remain in a close competitors to see who can find more moons-- and it's any person's video game. At this moment, ringed Saturn...

A ‘FURST’ of its Kind: Sounding Rocket Mission to Study Sun as a Star

Science and Nature

Editor's Note: NASA and partners scrubbed the very first launch effort of the FURST Sounding Rocket Mission on Aug. 11 due to concerns with the cooling systems. This story will be upgraded as quickly as the next launch effort is identified. By Jessica Barnett From Earth, one may be lured to see the Sun as a special celestial item like no other, as it's the star our home world orbits and the one our world counts on a lot of for heat and light. If you took an action back and compared the Sun to the other stars NASA has studied over the years, how would it compare? Would it still be so special? The Full-sun Ultraviolet Rocket SpecTrograph (FURST) intends to respond to those concerns when it introduces aboard a Black Brant IX sounding rocket Aug. 11 at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. ...

The Chandra X-ray spacecraft might quickly go dark, threatening a good deal of astronomy

Science and Nature

A view of the Chandra X-Ray Observatory after being released by Space Shuttle Columbia's STS-93 objective on July 23, 1999. (Image credit: NASA) Recently, a threatening letter was released to the Chandra X-ray Observatory's site. "Dear Chandra neighborhood," it begins, "As a lot of you know, the NASA spending plan for FY25 and beyond was launched ..."This letter was composed by Patrick Slane, director of the Chandra X-ray. In it, he's discussing NASA's spending plan proposition for the next couple of years. It's a budget plan that paints Chandra's future as a bleak one-- a budget plan that would leave Chandra's objective behind."For researchers who count on Chandra for their research study, the state of mind is among shock," Slane informed Space.com, "however the energy to press ...