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Another Success for Hayabusa 2 as it Completes a Flyby of Asteroid Torifune

JAXA's Hayabusa 2 has completed its flyby of asteroid Torifune. The spacecraft came within about 800 meters of the asteroid's surface. Though the spacecraft is travelling very rapidly, making navigation challenging, it was still able to capture clear images of the asteroid's boulder-strewn surface. Based on ground-based observations, scientists suspected that Torifune was a contact binary asteroid, and these images confirm it. from Universe Today https://ift.tt/s0BT8GJ via IFTTT
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The Euclid Space Telescope Has Found 31 New Ancient Quasars, Including the Most Ancient One Ever Found

Euclid is only 1.5 years into its Euclid Wide Survey and has found 31 new quasars from the Universe's first 800 million years. Though the Survey isn't specifically aimed at finding ancient quasars, it's proving to be remarkably effective at it. This large sample of quasars will help with the study of ancient galaxies and supermassive black holes. from Universe Today https://ift.tt/V5UBM0K via IFTTT
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Astronomers Using Chandra Data Produce the Most Detailed View of the M87 Jet in X-rays

Combining data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory with advanced image-processing techniques to produce the sharpest X-ray view yet of the relativistic jet from M87's supermassive black hole. from Universe Today https://ift.tt/9U0S7Vh via IFTTT
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Galaxy Mergers Aren't Always Obvious

Mergers are a part of a galaxy's life in this Universe. Though clear signs of these mergers fade over hundreds of millions of years, evidence is still present, yet obscured, in the galaxies that experience them. The powerful JWST has made it possible to find this evidence, and it did so recently for Centaurus A. from Universe Today https://ift.tt/3XE2oW9 via IFTTT
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University Team Proposed Retractable, Pressurized Tunnels for Missions to Mars

As part of NASA's Moon to Mars eXploration Systems and Habitation (M2M X-Hab) 2026 Academic Innovation Challenge, a University of Michigan team proposed an actuated, pressurized tunnel system that would save countless hours of work and preparation by connecting the astronaut's habitat with other surface elements. from Universe Today https://ift.tt/MqQSLKD via IFTTT
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Andromeda's Newest Dwarf Galaxy is Extremely Dim

Astronomers have discovered an extremely low-mass and dim dwarf galaxy around Andromeda. Called And 35, it's an Ultra-Faint Dwarf Galaxy (UFDG) and so far, the researchers have detected only 46 of its stars. Lambda-CDM predicts that there should be many UFDGs around galaxies like Andromeda and the Milky Way, so finding more of them is important. from Universe Today https://ift.tt/oShVU0C via IFTTT
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A New Net-Membrane Could Clean Up Some Tricky Space Debris

We’ve reported on all kinds of wacky ideas for capturing and deorbiting space debris safely. From electric tethers to lasers, engineers and scientists have been trying everything they can think of to deal with the ever-increasing orbital debris problem. But one simple design keeps popping up over and over again - a net. A new paper from researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China details one of the most advanced net concepts yet - but whether we can actually build one remains to be seen. from Universe Today https://ift.tt/TZQGqNi via IFTTT
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