Scientists using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have found evidence that a planet orbiting a distant star may have lost its atmosphere but gained a second one through volcanic activity. The planet, GJ 1132 b, is hypothesized to have begun as a gaseous world with a thick hydrogen blanket of atmosphere…. Read more“Distant Planet May Be On Its Second Atmosphere, NASA’s Hubble Finds”
Month: March 2021
Asteroid 2001 FO32 Will Safely Pass by Earth March 21
This photo shows the view from inside the dome of NASA’s Infrared Telescope Facility during a night of observing. The 3.2-meter (10.5-foot) telescope atop Hawaii’s Mauna Kea will be used to measure the infrared spectrum of asteroid 2001 FO32.Credits: UH/IfA The interplanetary interloper won’t come closer than 1.25 million miles… Read more“Asteroid 2001 FO32 Will Safely Pass by Earth March 21”