Category: collision

SpaceX wouldn’t move its satellite despite European collision warning

Post author By Randall
Post date September 3, 2019
Categories In collision, esa, satellite, Space, Spacex, starlink, Tech, tomorrow

[ad_1] ESA experts calculated there was a 1 in 1,000 chance of a collision between the two satellites occurring, as reported by Forbes. That’s a slim chance, but it was enough for the ESA to decide to intervene. “We informed SpaceX, who replied and said that they do not plan to take action,” Holger Krag, […]

Astronomers believe the young Milky Way once swallowed a dwarf galaxy

Post author By Randall
Post date July 23, 2019
Categories In astronomers, astronomy, collision, consumed, dwarf galaxy, formation, gaia, gaia telescope, gaia-enceladus, galaxy, history, iac, instituto de astrofisica de canarias, milky way, nature astronomy, Space, stars, Tech, tomorrow

[ad_1] Astronomers previously believed that the galaxy was made of two separate sets of stars, but exactly how or when they came together was a mystery. Using the Gaia space telescope, these researchers were able to take more precise measurements of the position, brightness and distance of roughly one million stars. They also looked at […]