It’s week 22 of twenty twenty two, this is Talkin’ Science … catching you up on the months biggest stories with Dr Brad Tucker. Boeing lands safely, completing the final – delayed – testing of Starliner. Solar power generated in space is gaining momentum to light the way forward on Earth… and five of the solar system’s planets make guest appearances in our night sky this month.
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An international study led by Australian astronomers has created the most detailed maps of gravitational waves across the universe to date in three new research papers. The study also produced the largest ever galactic-scale gravitational wave detector and found further evidence of a “background” of these invisible yet incredibly fast ripples in space that can help unlock some major mysteries of the universe.
Even though Saturn’s rings appear clean and young, they may be as old as the planet itself according to international researchers. It was previously thought that impacts with small rocky debris travelling through space – called micrometeoroids – would dirty and darken the rings over time, but in 2004 the Cassini spacecraft revealed the rings to be clean and bright suggesting that they are not very old.
Australia’s first sovereign orbital rocket designed and built has finally cleared all regulatory hurdles, and now sits poised on the launchpad in Bowen as it
International researchers have found a giant planet transiting a very young star, in research that indicates this could be the youngest transiting planet found to date.
New analysis of marsquakes, which are similar to earthquakes, could offer clues into how Mars has evolved over billions of years, according to new research from The Australian National University and the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
It’s the end of the third week in February twenty twenty five. Here’s the science and space headlines we followed…
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