Hacker News with Generative AI: Solar System

Astronomers discover 128 new moons orbiting Saturn (theguardian.com)
Astronomers have discovered 128 new moons orbiting Saturn, giving it an insurmountable lead in the running tally of moons in the solar system.

Astronomy, Space, Saturn, Solar System

6 points by mooreds 10 days ago | 0 comments

Saturn solidifies its title as moon king with the discovery of 128 new moons (cbc.ca)
With a whopping total of 274 moons, researchers say Saturn’s tug of war with Jupiter for the title is settled once and for all.

Space Exploration, Astronomy, Solar System, Saturn, Jupiter

20 points by handfuloflight 18 days ago | 3 comments

Saturn Gains 128 New Moons, Bringing Its Total to 274 (nytimes.com)
Astronomers say they have discovered more than 100 new moons around Saturn, possibly the result of cosmic smashups that left debris in the planet’s orbit as recently as 100 million years ago.

Space Exploration, Astronomy, Saturn, Moons, Solar System

33 points by donohoe 21 days ago | 5 comments

Mercury's shadowy North Pole revealed by M-CAM 1 (esa.int)

Space Exploration, Astronomy, Solar System, Planetary Science, Mercury

81 points by divbzero 81 days ago | 15 comments

NASA's Parker Solar Probe Reports Healthy Status After Solar Encounter (nasa.gov)
Eight days after its record-breaking closest approach to the Sun’s surface Dec. 24, 2024, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has confirmed the spacecraft’s systems and science instruments are healthy and operating normally, including collecting science data as it swung around our star.

Space Exploration, NASA, Solar System

4 points by LorenDB 88 days ago | 1 comments

JPL Horizons on-line solar system data and ephemeris computation service (nasa.gov)
The JPL Horizons on-line solar system data and ephemeris computation service provides access to key solar system data and flexible production of highly accurate ephemerides for solar system objects ( loading… ). ( unable to load body counts… please try later ).

Space Exploration, Astronomy, Data Science, Solar System

125 points by perihelions 92 days ago | 25 comments

Planet 9: Inside the search for a hidden planet in our solar system (cnn.com)

Space, Astronomy, Solar System, Planets

6 points by Tomte 95 days ago | 0 comments

NASA's Parker Solar Probe Reports Successful Closest Approach to Sun (nasa.gov)
Following its record-breaking closest approach to the Sun, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has transmitted a beacon tone back to Earth indicating it’s in good health and operating normally.

Space Exploration, NASA, Solar System

94 points by divbzero 95 days ago | 17 comments

NASA Spacecraft 'Touches Sun' in Defining Moment for Humankind (forbes.com)
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has traveled to within just 3.86 million miles (6.1 million kilometers) of the sun’s surface — a new record — on Christmas Eve. You can follow Parker’s landmark moment on NASA’s Eyes On The Solar System page.

Space Exploration, NASA, Solar System

6 points by throwup238 97 days ago | 0 comments

NASA solar probe to make its closest ever pass of sun on Christmas Eve (theguardian.com)
Nasa’s Parker solar probe is attempting its closest ever flyby of the sun, passing 3.8m miles from its surface on Christmas Eve.

Space Exploration, NASA, Solar System, Christmas

12 points by isaacfrond 99 days ago | 0 comments

Parker Solar Probe attempts closest ever fly-by of Sun (bbc.com)
A Nasa spacecraft is attempting to make history with the closest-ever approach to the Sun.

Space Exploration, Solar System, Astronomy, NASA

6 points by astdb 99 days ago | 0 comments

We May Be on the Brink of Finding the Real Planet Nine (scientificamerican.com)
Most astronomers would love to find a planet, but Mike Brown may be the only one proud of having killed one. Thanks to his research, Pluto, the solar system’s ninth planet, was removed from the pantheon—and the public cried foul. How can you revise our childhoods? How can you mess around with our planetariums?

Astronomy, Science, Solar System, Pluto

14 points by danboarder 104 days ago | 7 comments

Saturn's rings could be much older than scientists first thought (space.com)

Saturn's rings, Space Exploration, Astronomy, Solar System

23 points by divbzero 106 days ago | 3 comments

Orbit of a Possible Planet X (cosmosmagazine.com)
The possibility that there might be a large, unknown planet lurking in the outer Solar System far beyond Pluto has long been a staple of science fiction.

Astronomy, Solar System, Planets, Science

6 points by geox 117 days ago | 1 comments

Size and albedo of the largest detected Oort-cloud object (arxiv.org)
The recently announced Oort-cloud comet C/2014 UN271 (Bernardinelli-Bernstein) is remarkable in at least three respects: (i) it was discovered inbound as far as ~29 au from the Sun (with prediscovery images up to ~34 au); (ii) it showed cometary activity already at almost 24 au; and (iii) its nuclear magnitude (Hr ~ 8.0) indicates an exceptionally large object.

Astronomy, Solar System, Comets, Space Exploration

119 points by belter 129 days ago | 62 comments

Highest-resolution images ever captured of the sun’s surface (smithsonianmag.com)
The European Space Agency (ESA) has just released four new, stellar images of the sun, including the highest resolution views to date of its full, visible surface, called the photosphere.

Astronomy, Space Exploration, Solar System, Photography

518 points by Brajeshwar 130 days ago | 134 comments

Uranus' moon Miranda may have an ocean beneath its surface (phys.org)
A new study suggests Uranus' moon Miranda may harbor a water ocean beneath its surface, a finding that would challenge many assumptions about the moon's history and composition and could put it in the company of the few select worlds in our solar system with potentially life-sustaining environments.

Astronomy, Moons, Oceans, Solar System, Life

39 points by geox 149 days ago | 7 comments

Ion engines could take us to the solar gravitational lens in less than 13 years (phys.org)
Sending an object to another star is still the stuff of science fiction. But some concrete missions could get us at least part way there. These "interstellar precursor missions" include a trip to the solar gravitational lens point at 550 AU from the sun—farther than any artificial object has ever been, including Voyager.

Space Exploration, Solar System, Physics, Technology

94 points by rbanffy 157 days ago | 79 comments

All asteroids in Solar System, visualized (github.com/DarkStar1982)
An app demo showing asteroid orbits using NASA MPC database.

Space, Visualization, Data, Astronomy, Solar System

117 points by d_silin 173 days ago | 30 comments

Ceres: An ocean world in the asteroid belt (astronomy.com)
Remnants of an ancient water ocean are buried beneath the icy crust of dwarf planet Ceres — or, at least, lingering pockets of one. That’s the tantalizing find presented August 10 by scientists working on NASA’s Dawn mission. Their research was laid out in a series of papers published in Nature.

Space Exploration, Astronomy, Dwarf Planets, Solar System, Water

126 points by JumpCrisscross 177 days ago | 68 comments

The first proposal for a solar system domain name system (blogspot.com)
Some years ago, I had to make a costume for an International Space University party and thought that I would go as a space archaeologist.

Domain Names, Space Exploration, Solar System

18 points by anigbrowl 183 days ago | 18 comments

Saturn's moon Mimas may hide a surprisingly young ocean (knowablemagazine.org)
Saturn’s moon Mimas, known for its uncanny resemblance to the Star Wars Death Star, might harbor liquid water beneath its icy shell. If true, similar seas could be hiding in plain sight, and the outer solar system may be far more habitable than previously thought.

Space Exploration, Astronomy, Moons, Solar System, Habitability

8 points by pseudolus 187 days ago | 0 comments

Hints of a Hidden Structure Detected at the Edge of the Solar System (sciencealert.com)
If you travel far enough away from the Sun, the Solar System becomes a lot more populated.

Space, Solar System, Astronomy

24 points by Brajeshwar 202 days ago | 5 comments

How the Sun looks from other planets (reddit.com)

Space, Solar System, Astronomy, Planets

5 points by behnamoh 248 days ago | 0 comments

Scientists discover CO2 and CO ices in outskirts of solar system (ucf.edu)

Science, Solar System, Astronomy, Chemistry

13 points by geox 312 days ago | 1 comments

Spacecraft Takes Close Up Video of the Sun, Revealing Otherworldly Hellscape (futurism.com)