The night sky will offer a unique light spectacle. Up to 1,000 greenish meteors will be seen per night, a greeting from the crumbling planet. The annual Geminids meteor shower has very favorable viewing conditions this year. The maximum time comes on the night of December 14 to 15, i.e. when the Moon will not … Read more
(Image from NASA: SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in the US state of Florida on February 25, 2023) LOS ANGELES, Dec. 7 (Xinhua) — US NASA. revealed that the organization’s Psyche mission has returned the first images of a distant star field. The Psyche mission launched from NASA’s … Read more
In the introductory video report of this article, you can watch the samples that the US Space Agency was able to deliver to Earth from an asteroid 190 million kilometers away. The OSIRIS-REx probe, which is about the size of an SUV and cost a billion dollars, set off on its journey on September 9, … Read more
London – NASA send samples asteroid Bennu to be researched in London, England. This asteroid is known as the one with the greatest potential to hit Earth in the next 300 years. NASA has taken samples by plane directly on the asteroid and some time ago it returned to Earth. Scientists at the Natural History … Read more
CNN Indonesia Tuesday, 21 Nov 2023 12:37 IWST Illustration. The peak of the Alpha Monocerotid meteor shower will decorate the sky, this Tuesday evening (21/11). (Photo: AP/Emrah Gurel) Jakarta, CNN Indonesia — Peak meteor shower Alfa Monocerotid will decorate the sky, this Tuesday night (21/11) until tomorrow morning before the sun rises. The Alpha Monocerotid … Read more
REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA — About 66 million years ago, the Earth was struck by a asteroid the size of a city that releases energy equivalent to the explosion of a 72 trillion ton bomb. This created a 100-mile-wide (180-kilometer) collision scar that is now Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula. This asteroid impact, known as the Chicxulub impact, caused … Read more
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta – During Lucy’s ride NASA drove past asteroid Dinkinesh at 10,000 mph, mission scientists saw a surprise: This asteroid was actually two asteroid. The space agency discovered that a smaller space rock about 720 feet (220 meters) wide orbits the half-mile (790 meters) wide Dinkinesh. Now, upon closer inspection, they realized that the … Read more
Jakarta – As we have heard, dinosaurs experienced extinction because they were triggered by an asteroid hitting the Earth. This event occurred 66 million years ago. In fact, a powerful asteroid impact caused extreme winter at that time and the loss of around 75 percent of life on Earth. It is known that as a … Read more
CNN Indonesia Monday, 06 Nov 2023 08:47 IWST Illustration. Astronomers have found more evidence that near-Earth asteroids are fragments of the Moon. (Photo: iStockphoto) Jakarta, CNN Indonesia — For astronomer found more evidence that asteroid Near Earth is a fragmented chunk of the Moon. The Kamo’oalewa asteroid, which is Hawaiian for “oscillating fragment”, is a … Read more
SUKABUMIUPDATE.com – An asteroid is a celestial body in the form of small fragments that move around the sun. Meanwhile, Jupiter is the largest planet among the four gas giants and the largest in the Solar System with a diameter of 142,984 km (88,846 mi) at the equator. Most recently, the National Aeronautics and Space … Read more