NASA has just announced that they have finally finished the optics alignment on the 10 billion dollar James Webb Space Telescope. This is a huge step when it comes to having an observatory that is infrared and fully functioning. The agency talked about how the observatory will be capable of capturing well focused images with […]
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Taming Gravity is all about the possibility through science and technology to harness gravity. If we accomplish this we will then have the means to travel to the stars.
Of course, to do this we will need to know a little bit about astronomy.
So, here at Taming Gravity we include inspiring news and breakthroughs happening in the field of astronomy.
Saturn’s weird moon Titan looks a bit like Earth, and scientists might finally know why
Titan is a moon on Saturn that looks a little bit like Earth and scientists have finally gotten a hypothesis as to why. When it comes to Titan, instead of having a majority of water like Earth, they are made of liquid methane. The theory that the scientists came up with is that sintering, wind […]
International Astronomical Union launches new center to fight satellite megaconstellation threat
In response to the threat of satellite mega-constellations, the IAU has launched the Center for the Protection of the Dark and Quiet Sky from Satellite Constellation Interference. Observatories are seeing their work threatened by satellite interference, which is now a bigger problem than urban light pollution. Soon there will be over 5,000 satellites above the […]
Epsilon Algorithms to Search for Life as We Don’t Know It to Cosmic Ruins at Milky Way’s Edge (The Galaxy Report)
There is a new strategy that a few people at the California Institute of Technology are trying to implement to make it much easier for us to possibly detect life outside our system. This is called an Epsilon machine. Another possibility is that the James Webb telescope will give us some sort of insight of […]
Predicting the Cosmos: AI Algorithms for Advanced Astronomical Research
Introduction to AI in Astronomy The Intersection of AI and Astronomy Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become an indispensable tool in the field of astronomy, revolutionizing the way researchers analyze and interpret vast amounts of data. The integration of AI into astronomical research allows scientists to sift through enormous datasets generated by sky surveys and […]
We Have The First Direct Evidence of a White Dwarf Violently Ripping Apart a Planet
A white dwarf has finally been observed devouring a planet. This scientific feat was achieved by studying x-ray light emitted from a white dwarf, and this x-ray light formed as a result of a planet colliding into the white dwarf. Past observations of the atmospheres of white dwarves were conducted using spectroscopic analysis, which involves […]
Astronomers Find 70 Planets Without Stars Floating Free in the Milky Way
We have found over 70 planets that do not have a star to orbit. We are calling those rouge planets. One of the interesting things about them is that they are not orbiting anything. One issue with it not being close to a star is that it’s hard to get data from it because we […]
Things are getting tense for NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, literally
The new James Webb Telescope is the biggest telescope yet. But it has had many problems and delays. At the end of 2021 it was finally released into space to explore the cosmos. Currently, it’s next plan is to unravel the sun shield. That is to protect it from the suns harmful rays. It was […]
Astronomers Have Detected a Mysterious, Dusty Object Erratically Dimming Its Star
At around 2300 light years away we are seeing a star that has been dimmed by almost 75 percent. We believe that it is an exoplanet or some asteroid. The only problem is that it is too random for it to be either of those. One hypotheses is that is is dust from a planet […]
Mysterious Dusty Object Discovered by Astronomers Using NASA’s TESS Planet Hunter
In 2018 The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite also known as TESS was launched into space to look for exoplanets. After some time it was found that it found a dusty object that is dimming the sun it is orbiting by 75 percent. We do not know for certain what it is, but there are some […]
