October 2018 – Page 5 – Astronomy Now

Hayabusa2 drops European MASCOT lander onto asteroid Ryugu

3 October 2018 Astronomy Now

A small lander built by the German and French space agencies tumbled to a successful low-gravity landing on the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu after release from Japan’s Hayabusa2 sample return spacecraft.

Extreme dwarf planet – ‘The Goblin’ – influenced by Planet X?

2 October 2018 Astronomy Now

Astronomers searching the outer solar system for signs of a super Earth-size world beyond Pluto have found another small body in an orbit consistent with the presumed gravitational influence of the presumed Planet X.

Where are they? Searching for laser beams from ET

2 October 2018 Astronomy Now

A mostly student-run project is studying the Andromeda Galaxy, taking repeated before-and-after photos with relatively small telescopes in hopes of detecting any civilizations using powerful lasers to signal their presence.

A hidden galaxy seen through a sea of stars

1 October 2018 Astronomy Now

A spectacular view of a “hidden” galaxy seen behind a sea of suns in the Milky Way, an image shortlisted in the 2018 Insight Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition.

Vast clouds of hydrogen aglow in early cosmos

1 October 2018 Astronomy Now

Vast clouds of atomic hydrogen in the early universe glow an ultraviolet blue in unexpected results indicating Lyman-alpha emissions across the entire sky.