for March 18th 2024
Here is my ersatz journalism, which is taken from other journalist’s work. At least I acknowledge and post the link.
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Can a satellite be cute?
14-inch spacecraft delivers new details about ‘hot Jupiters’
“The Colorado Ultraviolet Transit Experiment (CUTE) spacecraft is about the size of a cereal box. It has also recorded incredibly detailed measurements of the atmospheres of planets hundreds of light-years from Earth.”
It is the “size of a cereal box” and the purpose is to measure “hot Jupiter’s” atmosphere readings and Since its launch in September 2021, CUTE has trained its single ultraviolet telescope at a series of hot Jupiters, some hundreds of light-years from Earth.”
So, a Hot Jupiter?
“Hot Jupiters are among the hottest and angriest planets in the galaxy. As their name suggests, they are gas giants like our own Jupiter. These planets, however, hug much closer to their home stars, completing an orbit roughly once every several Earth days.”
And the good news?
“CUTE is still working and collecting data today.”
Here’s CUTE
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The Matter of Matter matters
Two different viewpoints in the same issue of Phys Org!
GALILEO: Scientists propose a new method to search for light dark matter
by Tejasri Gururaj , Phys.orgv.
A study, published today in The Astrophysical Journal, challenges the current model of the universe by showing that, in fact, it has no room for dark matter.Okay. I’ve been in the dark about that myself. However:
New research suggests that our universe has no dark matter
by Bernard Rizk, University of Ottawa
For Galileo: “Dark matter is one of the most pressing challenges in modern physics, with dark matter particles being elusive and hard to detect. This has prompted scientists to come up with new and innovative ways to look for these particles.
There are several candidates for dark matter particles, such as WIMPs, light dark matter particles (axions), and the hypothetical gravitino. Light dark matter, including bosonic particles like the QCD (quantum chromo dynamics) axion, has become a point of interest in recent years.”
But for by Bernard Rizk, University of Ottawa
“A study, published today in The Astrophysical Journal, challenges the current model of the universe by showing that, in fact, it has no room for dark matter.”
And also
“In standard cosmology, the accelerated expansion of the universe is said to be caused by dark energy but is in fact due to the weakening forces of nature as it expands, not due to dark energy.”
So, is it out there or not? We can argue among ourselves or forget it.
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Now, SpaceX tries again,
SpaceX Blazes Forward With Latest Starship Launch
Last April, the first spaceship blew up 24 miles over the gulf of Mexico. In November The second almost made it to orbit, but both stages ended up exploding.
This time,
“Most of the flight proceeded smoothly, and a number of test objectives were achieved during the flight, like opening and closing the spacecraft’s payload doors, which will be needed to deliver cargo in the future.”
That is nicely done, but, [However], “the final landing burn for the booster, conducted over the Gulf of Mexico, did not fully succeed — an area that SpaceX will attempt to fix for future flights.”
SpaceX said the Super Heavy disintegrated at an altitude of about 1,500 feet.”
More details of all kinds of problems will arise. X wants to land astronauts on the moon. This means that the next one will have people in it. Remember the Challenger? Hopefully, enough lessons have been learned.
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That is that that for this post. I will be posting poems during the week.
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