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Global Space News for 16 Jan 2019
Titan's Thick Clouds Obscure our View, but Cassini Took these Images in Infrared, Showing the Moon's Surface Features
Universe Today - 16 Jan 2019 02:10Saturn’s moon Titan is a very strange place. It’s surrounded by a dense, opaque atmosphere, the only moon in the solar system with an atmosphere to speak of. It has lakes of liquid methane on its... surface, maybe some cryovolcanoes, and some scientists speculate that it could support a form of life. Very weird life. …
A New Technique to Figure Out How Old Stars Are
Universe Today - 16 Jan 2019 00:27Our understanding of the universe, and of the Milky Way, is built on an edifice of individual pieces of knowledge, all related to each other. But each of those pieces is only so accurate. The more... accurate we can make one of the pieces of knowledge, the more accurate our understanding of the whole thing …
Hubble Sees the Brightest Quasar in the Early Universe
SpaceRef - 16 Jan 2019 05:05The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has discovered the brightest quasar ever seen in the early Universe....
New Movie Shows Ultima Thule from an Approaching New Horizons
SpaceRef - 16 Jan 2019 04:58This movie shows the propeller-like rotation of Ultima Thule in the seven hours between 20:00 UT (3 p.m. ET) on Dec. 31, 2018, and 05:01 UT (12:01 a.m.) on Jan. 1, 2019, as seen by the Long Range... Reconnaissance Imager...
Arianespace targets 12 launches this year, more counting OneWeb, Vega C debut
Space News - 16 Jan 2019 04:35
European launch provider Arianespace is planning to conduct a record number of Vega launches this year, and, if OneWeb is ready, a return to launching from Russia's Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.... SpaceNews.com