![]() We're going to examine five major missions happening right now, examining asteroids, and potentially, saving us from the fate of the dinosaurs.īill Bottke, Director of Space Studies at the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) joins us talking about the Psyche mission, exploring a metal-rich asteroid for the first time. This week on Astronomy News with The Cosmic Companion, we take a close-up look at asteroids – those lumps or rock, metal, and ice racing around our solar system. Simpson was found innocent of murder), astronomers announced the discovery of 51 Pegasi, the first exoplanet found around a healthy, active, main-sequence star. Bush got ill at the home of the Japanese Prime Minister. This was the week Kristi Yamaguchi won the US female Figure Skating championship, Paul Simon opened a tour of South Africa, and President George H. Three decades before, the first exoplanets were found orbiting pulsars - rapidly spinning corpses of stars, during the second week of 1992. On 21 March 2022, NASA confirmed the 5,000th confirmed exoplanet, marking a milestone in our understanding of the Cosmos. Thayne Currie, astrophysicist at The Subaru Telescope, who recently discovered a planet nine times more massive than Jupiter orbiting a young star a little over 500 light years from Earth. This week on The Cosmic Companion, we look at exoplanets - worlds orbiting alien stars. Exploring exoplanets - worlds orbiting alien stars - talking with Thayne Currie of NAOJ, who recently found a bizarre massive planet.
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