Scientists Discovered an Entire Group of Free-Floating Planets a Lot Like Earth
And we re about to find a lot more. An artist s impression of a free-floating planet. Interpott.nrw / Wikimedia
Not every Earth-like planet gets to have a nice, warm sun.
A team of scientists just found a mysterious group of free-floating planets that might not have any host stars whatsoever, and some of them might have masses not very different than Earth s, according to a recent stud published in the
Twenty-seven free-floating planets found via microlensing
Data gathered in 2016 during the K2 mission phase of NASA s Kepler Space Telescope was analyzed in the study by Iain McDonald of the University of Manchester in the U.K., which is now located at the Open University. Throughout the two-month Kepler mission, the telescope monitored a crowded population of millions of stars close to the center of our Milky Way every 30 minutes, to identify gravitational microlensing events, which point to
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NASA selects ACT for Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
Advanced Cooling Technologies Inc. (ACT) is the prime thermal management supplier for the coronagraph.
Advanced Cooling Technologies Inc. (ACT) of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, has been awarded a contract from the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) for engineering development and flight hardware manufacturing of Constant Conductance Heat Pipes (CCHPs) and an embedded warm radiator panel, which will fly as part of the
ACT will be the prime thermal management supplier for the Electronics Heat Transport Subsystem (EHTS); the scope of work includes design, fabrication, and qualification of several external CCHPs and an aluminum-honeycomb embedded CCHP radiator panel. All deliverables will be provided to NASA by March 2022.
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NASA s 2020 released Roman Space Telescope is proving its superiority over the popular Hubble Space Telescope that has been around since 1995, with the new technology featuring 100 more ultra-deep field images. The new telescope has all the nooks and crannies that NASA needs for deeper space captures research, as it features better imaging compared to the present tech utilized. Out with the old, in with the new is the best description for technology, as it replaces older models with the latest and most advanced devices that are yet introduced by engineers and innovators. While the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has not announced anything about retiring the 26-year-old Hubble Space Telescope, there is surely something better in the agency s labs.