The astronomers who found it noticed orbital eccentricities in several Kuiper Belt objects that all pointed in just the same direction, and were all twisted out of the ecliptic in the same direction, to the same degree.
The mysterious Planet 9, or Planet X, is supposed to have a highly elliptical orbit that’s out of plane with the rest of the planets. Alpha Centauri A, the system’s primary star, backlit Planet beautifully now, creating a halo around it, and Alpha Centauri B, the system’s second of three suns, cast. And Dawn has been peering below the surface of Ceres to see what secrets the dwarf planet hides.Īnd speaking of dwarf planets: It wasn’t Nemesis and it wasn’t Vulcan, but some astronomers from Caltech have put forth a convincing argument that there’s another planet lurking at the edge of our solar system. Journey to Centauri : Episode 26 part 2 Deirdre Skye stood in the observation room off of the command center and watched the great jewel of Planet pulse against the darkness. Stalwart Curiosity has been beaming back a constant stream of data from Mars as it ascends 5.5-km Mount Sharp. Cassini has been busy too, investigating Saturn’s rings, moons and general electrical and chemical environment. Lovis is working on a new instrument called RISTRETTO which will be installed at the Very Large Telescope in Chile. This could impact the chances for water and life on the planet. Juno settled into its science orbit around Jupiter and immediately started taking measurements of gravity and the electromagnetic environment, snapping beauty shots of Jupiter and its moons when it’s not otherwise occupied trying to find out whether there’s metallic hydrogen at Jupiter’s core. However, Proxima Centauri is an active star that lashes the planet with X-rays 400 times more than Earth receives from the sun. It’s been a pretty great year for planetary science, too. Finding gravitational waves indicates that we may be able to detect non-light signals from before the recombination era, which is to say that we might be able to tease out data from so far back in time that it’s before there was any such thing as light. LIGO interferometers were able to detect the ripples, substantiating Einstein’s theory of general relativity and strengthening conclusions about string theory. It all started with the collision of two supermassive black holes, a cataclysm that warped space-time and left intergalactic-scale ripples in its wake. And huge: in order to have produced the energy output we saw, either it confirmed the hypothesis of magnetars or it was a hypergiant among hypergiants: hundreds of times the mass of our sun, an object so rare that we’d never seen one die. Deeply redshifted, the star must have been very far away. At its peak it was 600 billion times brighter than our sun, more than 20 times as bright as the stellar output of the entire Milky Way. The Washington Examiner reached out to the Chicago Police Department for comment but did not immediately receive a response.The most powerful supernova ever recorded started our year off with a bang and pushed the limits of astrophysics like they didn’t matter. Anyone who encounters him is told not to confront him but instead call 911. 18 that authorities believe are connected with the first attack.ĬLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINERĪnyone with information has been instructed to call public transportation at 31. The first attack was reported July 21 on a bus, and similar attacks were reported on Aug. He is often seen with a do-rag on his head, red shoes, and sometimes a duffle bag in the footage. Surveillance footage from all four attacks showed the same black male at all four scenes. NEW YORK MUSEUMS, GALLERIES, AND ART FAIRS TO REQUIRE PROOF OF VACCINATION FOR ENTRANCE The man is "known to use a hammer" in his attacks, and he is wanted for aggravated battery, according to the Chicago Police Department's website. The Bureau of Counter-Terrorism Public Transportation sent a community alert asking the public for help in identifying the suspect, who is thought to be connected to at least four attacks since July. 8 - Hammer and Scale (Terry Mott) 10 - Relics of the Past: The Aravaln Protectorate (Mike Walloch) 14 - Relics of the Past: The Barada Imperium (Alex Fulton) 18 - The Arion Destroyer Project (Phillip Wright) 19 - Narn K'Talin Attack Cruiser (Torin) 20 - EA Hecate Phi Testbed Cruiser (Mark Dwinnells) 21 - Thrakallan Blockade Runner (Guild Master. Chicago police are hunting down a hammer-wielding suspect wanted for several attacks on the city's buses and metro line.