Maior explosão...

... desde o big bang?

https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/science-environment-51669384

O universo é plano...

https://www.space.com/34928-the-universe-is-flat-now-what.html

Poeira pré-solar

https://www.dn.pt/vida-e-futuro/descoberta-em-meteorito-a-poeira-estelar-mais-antiga-7-mil-milhoes-de-anos-11702883.html

Citando:
"Philipp Heck e a sua equipa analisaram o meteorito - que caiu no estado australiano de Victoria em 28 de setembro de 1969 - e encontraram partículas denominadas 'grãos minerais pré-solares', anteriores à formação do Sol, que terão ficado presas no meteoritoe que já tinham sido isolados há cerca de 30 anos na Universidade Chicago.

De acordo com os investigadores, grãos pré-solares são encontrados em apenas cerca de cinco por cento dos meteoritos que caíram na Terra."

Planetas de Algodão Doce?

https://jmonline.com.br/novo/?noticias,1,GERAL,190426
Citando:
"Eles têm uma densidade muito baixa – daí o elo com o algodão doce. Uma nova pesquisa, que analisou três desses planetasao redor da estrela Kepler 51, sugere que a baixa densidade pode ser uma fase temporária de certos planetas. O estudo está diponível no periódico científico ArXiv, e também será publicado no Astronomical Journal."

Vida extraterrestre mais comum?

https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/world-news/alien-life-planets-solar-system-17282079

Citando:
"A new study has found that almost nine in 10 planets similar to Earth that orbit two distant stars could harbour life.

Around half of all solar systems are believed to be made up of planets such as this - known as binaries.

Now, a study of a theoretical twin of our planet has convinced scientists that aliens "really are out there"."

Velocidade de expansão do universo?

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/nov/02/hubble-constant-mystery-that-keeps-getting-bigger-estimate-rate-expansion-universe-cosmology-cepheid
Citando:
"The other method for establishing the Hubble constant has involved astronomers looking at the rippling pattern of light, called the cosmic microwave background, that formed just after the big bang birth of the cosmos 13.8bn years ago. This background has been surveyed with increasing precision by US and European satellites – most recently by the European Space Agency’s Planck observatory – and these observations have allowed scientists to build a model that takes account of dark energy and dark matter and that shows how the early universe’s growth would probably have produced an expansion that astronomers can measure today."

Estrela sai de Via Láctea?

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/nov/13/superfast-star-found-leaving-milky-way-at-1700km-per-second

Citando:
"Astronomers have spotted a star heading out of the Milky Way at more than 6m km/h (3.7m mph), or 1,700km per second, after an encounter with the supermassive black hole at the centre of the galaxy.

The star is moving so fast that in about 100m years it will exit the Milky Way and spend the rest of its life sailing alone through intergalactic space. Although it was predicted 30 years ago that black holes could fling stars out of the galaxy at phenomenal speeds, it is the first time that such an event has been recorded."

A tempestade de Júpiter pela Juno

https://www.rt.com/news/473025-jupiter-storms-incredible-image/

Citando:
"According to the space agency, citizen scientist Kevin M. Gill used readings captured by the Juno spacecraft to create the striking image. Juno’s on-board imaging technology recorded the data while traveling some 5,300 miles (8,500 kilometers) over the clouds on November 3, 2019.

While the planet, a gas giant, is composed mostly of hydrogen and helium, NASA says that scientists suspect that some of the strange coloring in the storm clouds could come from sulfur or phosphorus gases that originate within Jupiter."

Sobre o computador que levou o homem à Lua

https://www.universetoday.com/143102/the-story-of-the-apollo-guidance-computer-part-2/

O trabalho manual e a Apolo 11

https://www.fastcompany.com/90363966/the-guts-of-nasas-pioneering-apollo-computer-was-handwoven-like-a-quilt

Citando:
"If the internals of the Apollo computer itself needed to be hand sewn, so be it.

And so, like the lunar rover wheels and the parachutes, the circuits and programs of the Apollo flight computers were also woven by hand, by women at a Raytheon factory in Waltham, Massachusetts. They sat at sophisticated looms, using long needles with wire attached to them instead of thread, carefully weaving the wiring that was the programming of the computers.

The software was, in fact, hardware.

It was an astonishing process that was tedious yet required absolute attention and precision. Every single 1 and 0 in the computer’s memory required a wire in exactly the right place. A single mis-wired strand meant the computer’s programs wouldn’t work properly—and might fail at some critical, potentially disastrous moment.

The women who did this work had, in fact, been recruited from nearby textile factories. The memory holding the programming for a single Apollo flight computer—for the entire mission—was a total of just 73 kB, far less than the memory many emails require today. Yet it took dozens of women in Waltham eight weeks to assemble it, meticulously, by hand."

(...)

"The Apollo guidance computer was the first operational computer to use rope-core memory. By the time U.S. lunar modules starting landing on the Moon, the technology had moved on to the much easier to handle—and much cheaper—computer chips and floppy disks that dominated computing for the next several decades.

So the Apollo flight computer was not only the first computer of any significance to use handwoven rope core memory. It was also the last."

Apollo 11 conversation log

https://news.google.com/articles/CBMib2h0dHBzOi8vd3d3LmV4cHJlc3MuY28udWsvbmV3cy9zY2llbmNlLzExMzQyMDQvTkFTQS1BcG9sbG8tMTEtTW9vbi1sYW5kaW5nLU5laWwtQXJtc3Ryb25nLXNwYWNlLXN0YXJzLW5hc2EtbmV3c9IBc2h0dHBzOi8vd3d3LmV4cHJlc3MuY28udWsvbmV3cy9zY2llbmNlLzExMzQyMDQvTkFTQS1BcG9sbG8tMTEtTW9vbi1sYW5kaW5nLU5laWwtQXJtc3Ryb25nLXNwYWNlLXN0YXJzLW5hc2EtbmV3cy9hbXA?hl=en-GB≷=GB&ceid=GB%3Aen

Citando:
"Commander Armstrong told Mission Control: “Houston, it’s been a real change for us.

“Now we’re able to see stars again and recognise constellations for the first time on the trip.

“It’s – the sky is full of stars. Just like the night side of Earth.

“But all the way here, we’ve only been able to see stars occasionally and perhaps through the monocular but not recognise any star patterns"

NASA astronaut Bruce McCandless, who was communicating with Apollo 11, replied: “I guess it's turned into night up there really, hasn't it?.”

Commander Armstrong silly replied that it “really has”.

About 30 minutes later, NASA’s Mission Control read out the day’s news headlines to the astronauts alongside some messages from their families.

Mr McCandless said: “West Germany has declared Monday to be Apollo Day. School children in Bavaria have been given the day off.

“Post Office clerks have been encouraged to bring radios to work and Frankfurt is installing TV sets in public places.”"

Colisão de luas?

https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/1130267/nasa-moon-face-ancient-second-moon-smash-lunar-far-side-of-moon-space-news

Documentário BBC sobre a chegada do homem à Lua

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-48232627

Citando:
"In the making of 13 Minutes to the Moon, we spent the best part of four weeks travelling around the United States looking for the people who, one day in 1969, had somehow got a man safely to the surface of another world.

In Texas, we found Charlie Duke, lunar module pilot on Apollo 16, and Walt Cunningham, who served as command module pilot during Apollo 7, the inaugural test flight.

In Chicago, we interviewed the legendary Jim Lovell, who orbited the Moon in 1968 on the audacious flight of Apollo 8, and of course later commanded the ill-fated Apollo 13.

The very first of our interviews for the series was with Michael Collins who, along with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, completed the crew of Apollo 11 on the mission that saw human beings land on the Moon for the very first time in the summer of 1969."

Efacec na missão Juicy

Com outras letras capitalizadas:
https://www.motor24.pt/sites/wattson/efacec-chega-a-jupiter-em-2029/

Citando:
"A Efacec está a desenvolver a terceira geração do seu monitor de radiação para a missão espacial JUICE rumo ao planeta Júpiter.

Depois de ter colocado a sua tecnologiaem direção ao planeta Mercúrio, a portuguesa Efacec está a desenvolver, entre outros equipamentos, a terceira geração do seu monitor de radiação para a missão JUICE.

O nome da missão de exploração JUICE significa “JUpiter ICy”, numa alusão à exploração do planeta gasoso Júpiter e das suas luas frias."

ESA GOCE mission

http://m.esa.int/Our_Activities/Observing_the_Earth/GOCE/Taking_gravity_from_strength_to_strength

Citando:
"Ten years ago, ESA launched one of its most innovative satellites. GOCE spent four years measuring a fundamental force of nature: gravity. This extraordinary mission not only yielded new insights into our gravity field, but led to some amazing discoveries about our planet, from deep below the surface to high up in the atmosphere and beyond. And, this remarkable mission continues to realise new science today.

Because of factors such as the planet’s rotation, the position of mountains and ocean trenches and different densities in materials in Earth’s interior, the force of gravity at Earth’s surface varies from place to place."

Missão da Jaxa aterra em asteróide

https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/1092807/asteroid-ryugu-selfie-hayabusa2-japanese-probe-landing-picture

Citando:
"The Hayabusa2 spacecraft last week made history after it briefly touched down on the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu. The incredible technological feat could provide to understanding the origins of life on Earth. But the latest image released by Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) shows an apparently inexplicable smudge on the asteroid’s surface."

Sonda japonesa e asteróide

https://zap.aeiou.pt/sonda-japonesa-asteroide-amostras-242169

Citando:
"A sonda japonesa Hayabusa-2 deverá aterrar no asteroide Ryugu na sexta-feira (quinta-feira em Lisboa) para recolher amostras do corpo rochoso, estima a agência espacial japonesa Jaxa."

Fotos da Apolo 11 inéditas

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/8435440/moon-landing-photos-rocket-blast-astronauts-plunge-us-flag/

NASA SPHEREx

https://www.jn.pt/tecnologia/interior/nasa-lanca-em-2023-telescopio-espacial-para-explorar-origens-do-universo-10578565.html

Nova galáxia descoberta

http://sci.esa.int/hubble/61075-hubble-fortuitously-discovers-a-new-galaxy-in-the-cosmic-neighbourhood-heic1903/

Citando:
"An international team of astronomers recently used the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to study white dwarf stars within the globular cluster NGC 6752. The aim of their observations was to use these stars to measure the age of the globular cluster, but in the process they made an unexpected discovery.

Bedin I in NGC 6752. Credit: ESA/Hubble, NASA, Bedin et al., Digitized Sky Survey 2, CC BY 4.0

In the outer fringes of the area observed with Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys a compact collection of stars was visible. After a careful analysis of their brightnesses and temperatures, the astronomers concluded that these stars did not belong to the cluster – which is part of the Milky Way – but rather they are millions of light-years more distant.

Our newly discovered cosmic neighbour, nicknamed Bedin I by the astronomers, is a modestly sized, elongated galaxy. It measures only around 3000 light-years at its greatest extent – a fraction of the size of the Milky Way. Not only is it tiny, but it is also incredibly faint. These properties led astronomers to classify it as a dwarf spheroidal galaxy."