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Hungry Black Hole
A supermassive black hole has been tearing apart and eating a star for so long it set a new record.
According to researchers, this tidal disruption event was 10 times longer than any other star’s death, which either means the black hole was destroying an incredibly large star or it thoroughly torn apart a smaller star.
The team of researchers began observing the TDE that destroyed the too close star in July 2005, using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and Swift satellite and ESA’s WMM-Newton.
This black hole, known as XJ1500+0154, is at the center of a host galaxy about 1.8 billion light-years from Earth. It reached peak brightness in June 2008, and has been on researchers’ radars ever since.
“For most of the time we’ve been looking at this object, it has been growing rapidly,” James Guillochon of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass. and co-author of the study said. “This tells us something unusual — like a star twice as heavy as our Sun — is being fed into the black hole.”
Finding this drawn out death of a star by black hole shows not only that supermassive black holes can grow, but it also gives researchers more information about advanced black holes and how they came to be.
According to the researchers, the star that the black hole is feeding on will diminish in the next several years, and will therefore cause the brightness of XJ1500+0154 to fade as well.
Black Hole Meal Sets Record for Length and Size
chandra.si.edu/press/17_releases/press_020617.html
Image and Credit : X-ray: NASA/CXC/UNH/D.Lin et al, Optical: CFHT, Illustration: NASA/CXC/M.Weiss
De Ven, aan de IJsselmeerdijk bij het dorp Oosterdijk. De toren is gebouwd in 1699-1700 en is hiermee een van de oudste vuurtorens van Nederland. De samenstand van Venus samen met Pleiaden (zevengesternte) is rechts zichtbaar. Ongeveer eens in de 8 jaar is deze samenstand zichtbaar. Pleiaden is een open sterrenhoop in het sterrenbeeld Stier.
*Dark Nebula Glows Red in Amateur Astronomer's Photo*
Thick blankets of dust surround the predominantly dark region in Barnard 343, a dark nebula in the constellation Cygnus.
Barnard 343 belongs to the Gamma Cygni Complex – a group of clouds in Cygnus approximately 2,000 light-years away. A light-year is the distance light travels in one year, or about 6 trillion miles (10 trillion kilometers).
The brilliant red regions are caused by a large amount of hydrogen emissions present in the visible part of the spectrum. Johnson used a Takahashi TOA-130F @ f/7.7 telescope with a Takahashi EM200 Temma II Mount with a QSI 540wsg @ -15C camera.
About Image : Astrophotographer Jeffrey O. Johnson took this image from his backyard in Las Cruces, New Mexico.
Credit : Jeffrey O. Johnson
03 Sep 2021 - 22 Aug 2022
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This is a widefield image contains amongst others the following galaxies:
#M81 Bodes Galaxy contains ~200.000.000.000 stars
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Yesterday it's was a surprise to see those colours with a small G1 at Notre-Dame-Des-Monts, Charlevoix.
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Puerto Pirámides, la Luna, la Via Láctea, y las Nubes de Magallanes
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The dolmen is almost completely intact and measures approximately 13 feet long, 20 feet across, and stands over 6 feet high, making it one of the largest in Ireland. Resting under the stars, with Mars in opposition, looking down upon this sleeping giant located outside Ardara Co.Donegal Ireland.
GALILEO SATELLITES 15–18 PREPARED FOR LIFTOFF
This timelapse video shows Galileo satellites 15–18, from final preparations to liftoff on a Ariane 5 launcher, flight VA233, from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana, on 17 November 2016, accelerating deployment of the new satellite navigation system. Galileo is the Europe’s own global satellite navigation system. The full system of 24 satellites plus spares is expected to be in place by 2020.
The Galileo programme is funded and owned by the EU. The European Commission has the overall responsibility for the programme, managing and overseeing the implementation of all programme activities. Galileo’s deployment, the design and development of the new generation of systems and the technical development of infrastructure are entrusted to ESA.
The definition, development and in-orbit validation phases were carried out by ESA, and co-funded by ESA and the European Commission.
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Directed by Stephane Corvaja, ESA and Manuel Pedoussaut, Zetapress; Music by Hubrid-Jupiter.
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This last thursday, a small minor storm was visible with the moonrise at Notre-Dames-Des-Monts, Charlevoix.
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" Super-Galaxies Don’t Become Cannibals Until Later in Life "
the largest galaxies in the universe feed on recycled material from dead stars.Before they turn to cannibalism, massive galaxies spend their infancy gobbling up recycled gas from earlier generations of star formation.
The Spiderweb Galaxy is actually more of a galaxy-in-progress.a moment ten billion years away whose light is only just reaching us on Earth , it’s a group of about a dozen small proto-galaxies, slowly falling together and merging amid a vast halo of cold gas. At the center of that spiderweb of gas and merging galaxies sits a larger radio galaxy, which will one day form the core of the giant elliptical galaxy.At 10 billion light-years away, the Spiderweb Galaxy offers astronomers a window into the formative years of the largest galaxies in the universe. It turns out that the birth of a super-galaxy is a more complex process than previously thought.
How Galaxies Grow Up to Be Cannibals ? find here
it had been widely accepted that as a massive galaxy forms, it draws in material from nearby smaller galaxies, cannibalizing them to feed its own growth. That’s because we’ve mostly been observing less distant, more mature super-galaxies. The Spiderweb Galaxy offers a look at much earlier stages of a supergalaxy’s lifespan. here is a news
science.sciencemag.org/content/354/6316/1128
Before they grew up to become cannibals, however, the largest galaxies in the universe may have actually been recyclers. A few billion years before the cannibal phase, computer models predict, these enormous galaxies probably condensed directly from clouds of gas expelled by dying stars in other nearby galaxies. When the galaxy runs out of material, it begins stripping gas and stars from nearby smaller galaxies.
The Spiderweb Galaxy is actually more of a galaxy , Looking into
Carbon monoxide (CO) also provides a vital clue about the origin of the molecular cloud that’s condensing into a new galaxy. Carbon and oxygen form only in the bowels of massive stars, so the gas in the Spiderweb must have been formed in early stars and then expelled in supernovae. The Spiderweb Galaxy is presently dining on recycled material, probably from an earlier generation of star formation in those protocluster galaxies.
Emonts and Team has done some observations .here you go
1. If the central galaxy were cannibalizing its smaller neighbors in order to grow, Emonts and his colleagues reasoned, then most of the gas in the Spiderweb would probably be in the smaller proto-galaxies.
2. It turned out that about a third of the gas was concentrated in the large central galaxy, but the other two-thirds didn’t seem to be concentrated in any of the proto-galaxies. Instead, it was mostly found in the space between the galaxies, which astronomers call the intergalactic medium. The Spiderweb Galaxy is condensing directly from that gaseous medium between galaxies.
These observations provide some evidence that in the very early universe, giant galaxies in clusters like this one formed out of large regions of gas recycled from earlier generations of stars that had already lived and died.
This phase of the Spiderweb Galaxy’s lifespan is likely to last about another billion years. “There is so much gas in this cloud that it will take at least a billion more years for all the gas to have turned into stars,” said Emonts. “At that time, the galaxy will be almost a quarter of a million light-years in diameter, already more than twice the size of our Milky Way galaxy, and it will continue to grow.”
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Oaxaca y Puebla comparten la Reserva de la Biósfera Tehuacán-Cuicatlán
Cuenta con una de las mayores concentraciones de cactus columnares en el mundo.
El sitio Tehuacán-Cuicatlán se ubica en un complejo sistema de sierras y valles que generan una gran biodiversidad y diferentes ecosistemas.
Fue decretada Reserva de la Biósfera por la UNESCO en 2012 e inscrita el 1 de julio de 2018 en la Lista del Patrimonio Mundial de la UNESCO como sitio mixto.
México cuenta hoy con 35 sitios inscritos en la lista, de los cuales 2 son mixtos, por su valor natural y cultural: La Reserva de la Biósfera Calakmul, en Campeche, y la Reserva de la Biósfera Tehuacán-Cuicatlán, en Oaxaca y Puebla.
El sitio Tehuacán-Cuicatlán se ubica en un complejo sistema de sierras y valles que generan una gran biodiversidad y diferentes ecosistemas.
Una de las características ecológicas más excepcionales del valle de Tehuacán-Cuicatlán es que cuenta con una de las mayores concentraciones de cactus columnares en el mundo; 45 de las 70 especies reportadas en México se encuentran en esta porción central del país. El área también contiene arbustos xéricos, bosque caducifolio tropical, bosque de pinos, pino-encino y bosque nublado.
Ahí convergen ocho grupos indígenas (mixtecos, cuicatecos, ixcatecos, nahuas, chocholtecos, popolocas, chinantecos, mazatecos) y una gran biodiversidad principalmente de flora por las condiciones geográficas que la conforman.
Es el área más pequeña de las zonas áridas del país, sin embargo cuenta con una gran variedad de cactáceas que van desde las grandes columnares como el candelabro (Pachycereus weberi) que llega a medir hasta 16 metros de altura, los bosques de cactáceas columnares más densos del país de tetechos o viejitos (Neobuxbaumia tetetzo, Cephalocereus columna-trajani), hasta la más pequeña cactácea Mammillaria hernandezii con casi cinco centímetros de diámetro, esta última endémica de la zona, y la extensión de bosque tropical seco en protección más extensa del centro sur de México.
" Cassini Begins Saturn Ring Dives, Kicks Off Mission Finale "
NASA's Cassini spacecraft begins a series of daring dives through Saturn's rings Nov. 30, the first step in the probe's "grand finale" investigation of the gas giant planet.
Linda Spilker ( Cassini project scientist at NASA's JPL-- Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California ) said that we have two instruments that can sample particles and gases as we cross the ring plane, so in a sense, Cassini is also 'grazing' on the rings.
This isn't the first time Cassini has broken new ground. Over its 12 years in Saturn's system, the probe has dropped a lander on Saturn's moon Titan, discovering the satellite's methane seas; discovered an underground ocean on the moon Enceladus; and investigated the origins of Saturn's strange, giant hexagonal jet stream.
Cassini will pass through a faint outer ring for a few orbits, and then probe the outer reaches of Saturn's F ring, which marks the boundary of the main ring system. The F ring is about 500 miles (800 kilometers) wide — narrow compared to other rings — and features constantly changing streamers, filaments and dark channels that change over the course of hours, NASA researchers said in the statement.
While there, Cassini will explore the many small moons orbiting within and near the rings (including Pandora, Atlas, Pan and Daphnis), scoop up ring particles and gas to analyze, and build an in-depth scan of the rings' structure.
scientists said -- After the mission phase ends in April, Cassini will begin the "Grand Finale" proper, slinging around the moon Titan to begin 22 dives between Saturn and its rings, and finally turning to dive into the planet's atmosphere on Sept. 15. Researchers will use observations of the planet during this ring-grazing phase of to calculate how close the spacecraft can safely go during its dives before the final plunge.
That final dive will not only keep the spacecraft, running out of fuel, from contaminating Saturn's potentially habitable moons, but it will also provide an unprecedented view of the planet's gravity, composition and atmosphere.
Credit : NASA and JPL Laboratory
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1. shows the different ring segments that surround Saturn. The narrow F ring marks the outer boundary of the main ring system.
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NGC 2264 Christmas Tree Cluster🎄✨
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Most Dramatic Space Missions of 2016 ( The Journey of Space Missions in 2016 )
It's been a busy year of transition around the solar system. Some spacecraft crashed on distant planets, while others were found after we thought they were lost. And some cool stuff began to happen with new missions, such as exploring Jupiter and figuring out how useful inflatable structures will be in space. Here are some of the mission transitions of 2016.
1. Philae
2. Schiaparelli
4. Hitomi/ASTRO-H/New X-ray Telescope (NeXT)
5. Falcon 9 rocket + Amos-6
6. Tiangong-1
7. Juno
8. ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter
9. BEAM (International Space Station)
10. International Space Station one-year mission
11. Cassini
12. Russia's Progress resupply vehicle
Here you go:
1. Philae had quite the ride after separating from its parent spacecraft, Rosetta, in November 2014. The little lander bounced on its first contact with Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko and flew for an incredible two hours, finally coming to rest in a spot too shady to charge its solar-powered self. Philae did a few dozen hours of science, went into hibernation, and only gave a few peeps in the months afterwards until the European Space Agency gave up trying to contact it.Philae was found in one of the suspected landing zones.
www.seeker.com/philae-found-rosetta-spies-dead-comet-land...
2. STEREO-B : One of the twin Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatories (STEREO-B) stopped transmitting in October 2014, then, this August, NASA's Deep Space Network finally locked on to the spacecraft.Unfortunately, NASA couldn't recover the spacecraft because it was uncontrolled and far away from Earth, at about two Earth-sun distances. With the limited data the agency had, it tried to stabilize the spacecraft,but failed.
stereo-ssc.nascom.nasa.gov/behind_status.shtml
3. Schiaparelli : Schiaparelli separated from the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter and made its descent as planned on Oct. 19, but something happened along the way and it crashed. What exactly happened is still being figured out by an investigation board
www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/ExoMars/Schiapar...
4. Hitomi/ASTRO-H/New X-ray Telescope (NeXT) : Hitomi was an X-ray astronomy satellite from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, which was supposed to look at high-energy processs across the universe. The spacecraft made it into space as planned on Feb. 17, but controllers lost contact with it permanently on March 26.
5. Falcon 9 rocket and Amos-6 : On Sept. 1, a Falcon 9 rocket by SpaceX was on the pad undergoing a standard static fire test, before launching Amos-6 — an Israeli communications satellite. The rocket exploded and took the satellite with it, luckily causing no injuries at Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex 40.
www.seeker.com/spacex-elon-musk-falcon-rocket-explosion-l...
6. Tiangong-1 : Tiangong-1 was China's first space station — not a full station, but a small prototype to expand its space program in the future. It launched as a one-piece station in September 2011 and was visited by three spacecraft: Shenzhou 8 (uncrewed), Shenzhou 9 (crewed) and Shenzhou 10 (crewed)
7. Juno : Juno arrived at Jupiter on July 4 and has been making scientific observations for the past few months.More detailed findings will come after Juno has been active for a while.
www.seeker.com/computer-glitch-nixes-juno-science-run-at-...
8. ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter : The new Trace Gas Orbiter, which arrived at Mars in October, is designed to look at trace gases in the Red Planet's atmosphere. Carbon dioxide is the major force on Mars, but there are smaller portions of the atmosphere that are less understood. One famous example is methane, which has been measured in different abundances by different telescopes, orbiters and even NASA's Curiosity rover.
TGO is highly elliptical right now, but over time it will use aerobraking — skimming through the thinnest part of Mars' atmosphere — to lower itself into a science orbit about 400 kilometers from the surface.
www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/ExoMars/How_TGO_...
9. ISS BEAM : BEAM was inflated on May 26, but the attempt was called off because there was more air pressure than expected inside the module (possibly caused by fabric layers sticking together). A second attempt on May 28 was successful. Astronauts have entered BEAM a few times since to collect air samples and do some other routine monitoring, but for the most part it just sits by itself, attached to the Tranquility node.
The International Space Station is an excellent location to do long-term research in everything from plants to human physiology. It's also a great spot for companies to test out new processes and ideas. One recent one is the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module, also known as BEAM. Bigelow has two inflatable mini-space stations that have been in orbit for several years to test how inflatables behave in low-Earth orbit. The next step for the company was to install an inflatable module to the ISS.
www.seeker.com/space-station-now-has-inflatable-digs-1832...
10. ISS one-year mission : While a lot of astronauts have spent six months on the station, NASA hopes to have longer missions to prepare for a possible journey to Mars in the coming decades. In 2015, Mikhail Kornienko (Roscosmos) and Scott Kelly (NASA) blasted off to spend nearly a year on the orbiting complex. It was the first time humans had spent so long in space since the Mir space station era of the 1990s. The two arrived safely on Earth again in March.
Kelly got most of the press in the United States — he's a twin, a great photographer and was charmingly laconic and funny on Twitter. Kelly's twin brother, Mark, was also an astronaut and volunteered to take part in the same genetic studies so that investigators could take advantage of a unique opportunity. It will take years for all the data to be processed and analyzed, but Kelly's and Kornienko's flight is expected to help scientists learn more about the effects of space on the human body.
11.Cassini : The Cassini spacecraft has provided an incredible perspective on Saturn and its system for the past 12 years. We've seen water jets from Enceladus, lakes on Titan and strange vertical structures in Saturn's rings. The spacecraft is now low on fuel after exploring the solar system since 1997, however, and investigators want to steer Cassini into Saturn so it doesn't accidentally hit a potentially habitable moon.
Cassini will gradually move between Saturn and its rings — a first in space exploration — to better understand some of the structures of the particles that make up Saturn's crown. In September 2017, it will make a last swan dive into Saturn, taking atmospheric measurements as long as possible so that investigators can learn more about the planet's interior structure.
12. Russia's Progress resupply vehicle : On Dec. 1, Russia lost contact with its unmanned Progress space station resupply vehicle shortly after launch from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The cargo ship was carrying 2.4 tons of food, supplies and equipment and officials confirmed that it failed to reach its proper orbit, ultimately succumbing to gravity and burning up in the atmosphere. Though obviously a huge setback for the Russian space agency and space station operations, the orbiting outpost had a good level of supplies in reserve. This was the second failed Progress launch in less than two years. The failure of the April 2015 Progress mission was blamed on a problem with the Soyuz launch system.
www.seeker.com/russia-progress-spacecraft-launch-fails-bu...
This is End !!!
Mars is a tough place to land on — just ask any of the various groups that have tried to send landers over the years, and failed (such as NASA, the former Soviet Union and the European Space Agency). While ESA thought it had learned the lessons of the Beagle 2 failed landing in 2003, it turned out that another landing demonstrator called Schiaparelli didn't make it to the surface.
Credit : NASA
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Most Dramatic Space Missions of 2016 ( The Journey of Space Missions in 2016 )
It's been a busy year of transition around the solar system. Some spacecraft crashed on distant planets, while others were found after we thought they were lost. And some cool stuff began to happen with new missions, such as exploring Jupiter and figuring out how useful inflatable structures will be in space. Here are some of the mission transitions of 2016.
1. Philae
2. Schiaparelli
4. Hitomi/ASTRO-H/New X-ray Telescope (NeXT)
5. Falcon 9 rocket + Amos-6
6. Tiangong-1
7. Juno
8. ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter
9. BEAM (International Space Station)
10. International Space Station one-year mission
11. Cassini
12. Russia's Progress resupply vehicle
Here you go:
1. Philae had quite the ride after separating from its parent spacecraft, Rosetta, in November 2014. The little lander bounced on its first contact with Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko and flew for an incredible two hours, finally coming to rest in a spot too shady to charge its solar-powered self. Philae did a few dozen hours of science, went into hibernation, and only gave a few peeps in the months afterwards until the European Space Agency gave up trying to contact it.Philae was found in one of the suspected landing zones.
www.seeker.com/philae-found-rosetta-spies-dead-comet-land...
2. STEREO-B : One of the twin Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatories (STEREO-B) stopped transmitting in October 2014, then, this August, NASA's Deep Space Network finally locked on to the spacecraft.Unfortunately, NASA couldn't recover the spacecraft because it was uncontrolled and far away from Earth, at about two Earth-sun distances. With the limited data the agency had, it tried to stabilize the spacecraft,but failed.
stereo-ssc.nascom.nasa.gov/behind_status.shtml
3. Schiaparelli : Schiaparelli separated from the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter and made its descent as planned on Oct. 19, but something happened along the way and it crashed. What exactly happened is still being figured out by an investigation board
www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/ExoMars/Schiapar...
4. Hitomi/ASTRO-H/New X-ray Telescope (NeXT) : Hitomi was an X-ray astronomy satellite from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, which was supposed to look at high-energy processs across the universe. The spacecraft made it into space as planned on Feb. 17, but controllers lost contact with it permanently on March 26.
5. Falcon 9 rocket and Amos-6 : On Sept. 1, a Falcon 9 rocket by SpaceX was on the pad undergoing a standard static fire test, before launching Amos-6 — an Israeli communications satellite. The rocket exploded and took the satellite with it, luckily causing no injuries at Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex 40.
www.seeker.com/spacex-elon-musk-falcon-rocket-explosion-l...
6. Tiangong-1 : Tiangong-1 was China's first space station — not a full station, but a small prototype to expand its space program in the future. It launched as a one-piece station in September 2011 and was visited by three spacecraft: Shenzhou 8 (uncrewed), Shenzhou 9 (crewed) and Shenzhou 10 (crewed)
7. Juno : Juno arrived at Jupiter on July 4 and has been making scientific observations for the past few months.More detailed findings will come after Juno has been active for a while.
www.seeker.com/computer-glitch-nixes-juno-science-run-at-...
8. ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter : The new Trace Gas Orbiter, which arrived at Mars in October, is designed to look at trace gases in the Red Planet's atmosphere. Carbon dioxide is the major force on Mars, but there are smaller portions of the atmosphere that are less understood. One famous example is methane, which has been measured in different abundances by different telescopes, orbiters and even NASA's Curiosity rover.
TGO is highly elliptical right now, but over time it will use aerobraking — skimming through the thinnest part of Mars' atmosphere — to lower itself into a science orbit about 400 kilometers from the surface.
www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/ExoMars/How_TGO_...
9. ISS BEAM : BEAM was inflated on May 26, but the attempt was called off because there was more air pressure than expected inside the module (possibly caused by fabric layers sticking together). A second attempt on May 28 was successful. Astronauts have entered BEAM a few times since to collect air samples and do some other routine monitoring, but for the most part it just sits by itself, attached to the Tranquility node.
The International Space Station is an excellent location to do long-term research in everything from plants to human physiology. It's also a great spot for companies to test out new processes and ideas. One recent one is the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module, also known as BEAM. Bigelow has two inflatable mini-space stations that have been in orbit for several years to test how inflatables behave in low-Earth orbit. The next step for the company was to install an inflatable module to the ISS.
www.seeker.com/space-station-now-has-inflatable-digs-1832...
10. ISS one-year mission : While a lot of astronauts have spent six months on the station, NASA hopes to have longer missions to prepare for a possible journey to Mars in the coming decades. In 2015, Mikhail Kornienko (Roscosmos) and Scott Kelly (NASA) blasted off to spend nearly a year on the orbiting complex. It was the first time humans had spent so long in space since the Mir space station era of the 1990s. The two arrived safely on Earth again in March.
Kelly got most of the press in the United States — he's a twin, a great photographer and was charmingly laconic and funny on Twitter. Kelly's twin brother, Mark, was also an astronaut and volunteered to take part in the same genetic studies so that investigators could take advantage of a unique opportunity. It will take years for all the data to be processed and analyzed, but Kelly's and Kornienko's flight is expected to help scientists learn more about the effects of space on the human body.
11.Cassini : The Cassini spacecraft has provided an incredible perspective on Saturn and its system for the past 12 years. We've seen water jets from Enceladus, lakes on Titan and strange vertical structures in Saturn's rings. The spacecraft is now low on fuel after exploring the solar system since 1997, however, and investigators want to steer Cassini into Saturn so it doesn't accidentally hit a potentially habitable moon.
Cassini will gradually move between Saturn and its rings — a first in space exploration — to better understand some of the structures of the particles that make up Saturn's crown. In September 2017, it will make a last swan dive into Saturn, taking atmospheric measurements as long as possible so that investigators can learn more about the planet's interior structure.
12. Russia's Progress resupply vehicle : On Dec. 1, Russia lost contact with its unmanned Progress space station resupply vehicle shortly after launch from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The cargo ship was carrying 2.4 tons of food, supplies and equipment and officials confirmed that it failed to reach its proper orbit, ultimately succumbing to gravity and burning up in the atmosphere. Though obviously a huge setback for the Russian space agency and space station operations, the orbiting outpost had a good level of supplies in reserve. This was the second failed Progress launch in less than two years. The failure of the April 2015 Progress mission was blamed on a problem with the Soyuz launch system.
www.seeker.com/russia-progress-spacecraft-launch-fails-bu...
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Mars is a tough place to land on — just ask any of the various groups that have tried to send landers over the years, and failed (such as NASA, the former Soviet Union and the European Space Agency). While ESA thought it had learned the lessons of the Beagle 2 failed landing in 2003, it turned out that another landing demonstrator called Schiaparelli didn't make it to the surface.
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