Strange 'unknown structure' found around closest quasar | See 5 bright planets align in the night sky this month, a rare treat! | Elon Musk to SpaceX workers: Be in the office 40 hours a week
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The closest quasar to the Milky Way is giving up its secrets, thanks to an innovative technique developed by Japanese astronomers.
Using a new technique for studying some of the brightest objects in the universe, the scientists have thrown a curveball into our understanding of the link between active monster black holes and the suppression of star formation. And, they found something weird.
Skywatchers will be treated to a rare "planet parade" this month: All five naked-eye worlds will line up in their proper orbital order from the sun in our sky.
From left to right in the southeastern predawn sky, you'll be able to spot Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn all in a row. (Mercury will be quite close to the horizon when the show starts June 3 but becomes easier to spot as the month matures.) Here's when and where to look.
It appears that fully remote work at SpaceX and Tesla is over.
Elon Musk, the CEO of both companies, sent memos to executives at SpaceX and Tesla dictating that all employees must show up to the office for a minimum of 40 hours per week, according to a New York Times report(opens in new tab) published on Wednesday (June 1).
"The more senior you are, the more visible must be your presence," Musk said in the memo to SpaceX executives, according to The New York Times.
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The uncrewed Progress 81 freighter is scheduled to lift off atop a Russian Soyuz rocket from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan Friday at 5:32 a.m. EDT (0932 GMT). Watch it live here at Space.com, courtesy of NASA, or directly via the space agency; coverage will begin at 5:15 a.m. EDT (0915 GMT).
Progress 81 is carrying about three tons of food, propellant and equipment up to the International Space Station (ISS). And those supplies will be delivered quickly, if all goes according to plan: The freighter will catch up to the ISS after completing just two orbits of Earth, docking with the orbiting lab at 9:02 a.m. EDT (1302 GMT) on Friday, if all goes according to plan.
Just a few months ago, we were confidently expecting to launch our rover, Rosalind Franklin, to Mars in September as part of the ExoMars mission, a collaboration between Europe and Russia. The landing was planned for June 2023. Everything was ready: the rover, the operations team and the eager scientists.
The oddly shaped Minkowski's Object, a dwarf galaxy, glows in blue toward the bottom left of this stunning image from the Hubble Space Telescope. Meanwhile, the elliptical galaxy NGC 541 shines brightly in the upper right.
Minkowski's Object is bursting with stars, containing at least 20 million stellar objects, and it has been greatly influenced by its larger neighbor, NASA officials wrote in a statement when releasing the new Hubble image on May 23.
Having spent my career in the field of religion and science, I've thought a lot about how spiritual ideas intersect with technological achievements. The incredible longevity of the Voyager spacecraft presents a uniquely tangible entry point into exploring ideas of immortality. For many people, immortality is the everlasting existence of a soul or spirit that follows death. It can also mean the continuation of one's legacy in memory and records. With its Golden Record, each Voyager provides such a legacy, but only if it is discovered and appreciated by an alien civilization in the distant future
A new study has posed a peculiar question: What are the odds that humans could one day contact a hostile alien civilization that's capable of invading our planet?
The answer: Not as many as you might expect. The Earth is 100 times more likely to be destroyed by an asteroid than invaded by aliens.
A proposed Chinese mission would look for nearby potentially habitable alien worlds by launching a spacecraft to make ultraprecise measurements of how orbiting planets make a star wobble.
For this mission, called the Closeby Habitable Exoplanet Survey, the scientists would use a method called micro-arcsecond relative astrometry. This technique involves taking ultraprecise measurements of the positions and movements of stars compared with a set of background reference stars to detect the perturbations of a star resulting from the gravitational influence of exoplanets as they orbit their stars.
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The early morning skies are where all the planets are in June 2022. Admittedly, you'll have to wait until after the middle of the month to see Mercury, but thereafter they'll all be in view.
Here's when and where to look to see Mercury, Venus, Mars, Saturn and Jupiter this month!
