At the end of August, NASA is set to launch the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Its quest is to help us better understand how the universe works, from the glue-like dark matter that keeps galaxies together to the elusive dark energy that drives the expansion o...
8月底,NASA计划从佛罗里达州肯尼迪航天中心发射南希·格雷斯·罗曼空间望远镜。它的目标是帮助我们更好地理解宇宙如何运作,从将星系 together 的 glue-like 暗物质到驱动宇宙膨胀的 elusive 暗能量。但罗曼 also 可以 serve 另一个目的:保卫地球免受 killer 小行星的袭击。9月,一个多机构的行星科学家和天文学家团队将 outlined 它如何 uniquely positioned 扫描小行星,并提供有关其轨迹、大小和组成的信息。
罗曼以NASA首位首席天文学家命名,配备了一台超广角、300兆像素红外相机,使其能够一次看到大片太空——大约比哈勃太空望远镜大100倍。这将使其能够发现数千颗新行星和数万颗 exploding 恒星,并 remarkable 详细地 survey 超过十亿个星系。
行星防御转向
罗曼不是 built for 这个目的,但去年夏天,它(再次)受到特朗普政府 significant 资金削减的威胁。霍勒和他的同事的提案揭示了罗曼 epic 视场和红外视力使其能够 spot 长达60英尺的小型小行星—— comparable to 2013年在俄罗斯车里雅宾斯克上空爆炸的小行星。
望远镜团队合作
罗曼的优势在于补充詹姆斯·韦伯太空望远镜的能力。它可以 very quickly 观察多颗 questionable 小行星,提供比JWST在合理观测时间内 hope to 观测的更多的红外观测。
NASA的行星防御协调办公室 chiefly 担心的是460英尺长及以上的小行星。估计约25,000颗此类小行星具有近地轨道,其中一半以上尚未被发现。天文学家估计还有约230,000颗165英尺长的小行星在近地轨道运行,其中不到10%已被定位。
这就是为什么NASA在2027年发射近地天体巡天 space 望远镜。在几年内,它可以发现近地轨道中90%的城市 killer 大小小行星。
The Trump administration is recruiting private security firms to conduct federal government-authorized operations, including cyberattacks, against overseas-based criminal organizations that commit hacks on US persons, organizations, or government entities.
In a National Security Presidential Memoran...
The Trump administration is recruiting private security firms to conduct federal government-authorized operations, including cyber attacks, against overseas-based criminal organizations that commit hacks on US persons, organizations, or government entities.
In a National Security Presidential Memora...
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