debris
3 stories and discussions about debris, aggregated from every source we track.
This post is part of the series “Debris: Opening the box”. Okay, previous posts from this series aimed to actually convey useful technical information: assuming you actually want to wri…
We present the discovery of RX J0534.0-0221 b, a giant planet orbiting an M-dwarf star in the $β$ Pictoris moving group. RX J0534 was originally observed with JWST/NIRCam in the F444W and F200W filters. Observations in…
The 2013 sci-fi blockbuster film Gravity , starring Sandra Bullock and George Clooney, popularized the notion of the Kessler syndrome. In the movie, Russia shoots down a defunct satellite and creates a cloud of debris, leading to serious tension in orbit. The movie is fantastic, a true thriller, and while some liberties were taken with the depiction of outer space, the basic premise of a cascading series of collisions rendering orbits too cluttered with debris to be usable is valid. The idea was first proposed by NASA scientists Donald Kessler and Burton Cour-Palais nearly half a century ago. Still, the movie was science fiction, right? Read full article Comments