astronomy

General purpose astronomy thread. The search for radio emission from the exoplanetary systems 55 Cancri, υ Andromedae, and τ Boötis using LOFAR beam-formed observations Observing planetary auroral radio emission is the most promising method to detect exoplanetary magnetic fields, the...

Both the aircraft & instruments are going in for routine servicing & update in Germany. The aircraft servicing is being done by Lufthansa Technik & instruments by the German SOFIA institute. https://www.dlr.de/content/en/articles/news/2020/04/20201001_sofia-returns-to-hamburg.html View...

https://abcnews.go.com/US/full-moon-2020-wolf-moon-coincide-lunar-eclipse/story?id=68167969 https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/1144/the-next-full-moon-is-the-wolf-moon/ https://www.accuweather.com/en/space-news/moon-to-pass-through-earths-shadow-during-fridays-wolf-moon-eclipse/657251...

https://phys.org/news/2020-01-milky-reveals-giant-stellar-nurseries.amp Here’s the related paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1874-z

This is one of the steps on the road to the Hubble Space Telescope. At this point in the process the telescope contains a lot of Apollo legacy hardware and was designed so that the shuttle could be docked with it to allow maintenance and instrument swap-outs to take place in a shirtsleeve...

I thought we had a thread for the JWST already, but I couldn't find it. Ah well. Via the Daily Telegraph:

http://io9.com/5927315/hubble-has-spotted-an-ancient-galaxy-that-shouldnt-exist