On the morning of Jan. 18, 2003, Penny Sackett, then director of the Australian National University s Mount Stromlo Observatory outside Canberra, received a concerning email from a student at the facility. Bush fires that had been on the horizon the day before were now rapidly approaching. The astronomers on site were considering evacuating, the student wrote.
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https://www.afinalwarning.com/503685.html (Natural News) Scientists thought that GJ 1132 b, a distant exoplanet discovered in 2015, lost its atmosphere. But now it seems that it has formed itself a new one. The gases of this new atmosphere suggest a volcanic origin as well.
Scientists at the
National Aeronautics and Space Administration‘s (NASA) Jet Propulsion Laboratory made the discovery after examining existing observations of GJ 1132 b with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). They gathered the data back in 2017.
Raissa Estrela, a postdoctoral fellow at the lab who was part of the research team, said their finding was “super exciting” because the planet’s atmosphere could be a new or a secondary one.
March 16, 2021
The Hubble Space Telescope recently garnered headlines for a software anomaly that caused the iconic observatory to enter safe mode as its control teams worked to successfully restore the telescope to operational status.
While Hubble is showing its age, scientists using the observatory are nonetheless continuing to produce incredible scientific discoveries, including a recent announcement surrounding an exoplanet 41 light years away that is on its second atmosphere.
Hubble issues
Now 12 years on from that final servicing mission, the telescope is showing its age again, most recently with a safe mode event that occurred on Sunday, 7 March at 04:00 EST/09:00 UTC when a software error was detected inside the telescope’s main computer.