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UltraMassive Black Hole Measured in Elliptical Galaxy Holm 15A Second Largest Ever Seen

16th Aug, 2019 - 2777 views

Space Fan News is Sponsored by OPT Telescopes and Patreon Patrons: https://bit.ly/2SwhmVB Earlier this month astronomers revised some mass estimates of a black hole at the center of the elliptical galaxy Holmberg 15A, an enormous galaxy 700 million

Indias Chandrayaan2 on Its Way to Lunar South Pole But Why

27th Jul, 2019 - 77.8K views

Space Fan News is Sponsored by OPT Telescopes and Patreon Patrons: http://bit.ly/2Qkb62E The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) has successfully launched Chandrayaan-2 a mission designed to land on and study the south pole of the Moon. The s

SpektrRG Space Telescope Mission Puts Russia and Germany at the Forefront of Xray Astronomy

18th Jul, 2019 - 2038 views

Space Fan News is Sponsored by OPT Telescopes and Patreon Patrons: http://bit.ly/2Qkb62E Russia successfully launches Spekra-RG, a dual space telescope designed to map the sky in X-rays. This mission, in collaboration with Germany’s eRosita Syste

Physicists Hunt for Mirror Universe to Explain Neutron Decay Mystery Dark Matter

5th Jul, 2019 - 43.9K views

Space Fan News is Sponsored by OPT Telescopes and Patreon Patrons: http://bit.ly/2Qkb62E A physicist at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory is making a serious effort to open a portal to a parallel universe! It turns out that there’s a weird anomal

NASA Selects Quadcopter Dragonfly to Go to TITAN

29th Jun, 2019 - 5172 views

We are going to Titan! Yesterday NASA announced a new mission, called Dragonfly, a rotorcopter New Frontiers Mission designed to go to Saturn’s moon Titan.

Mystery of Ultra Diffuse Galaxy with NO Dark Matter Solved

8th Jun, 2019 - 9975 views

Remember that ultra diffuse galaxy I told you about in SFNs 226 and 232? You know, the one with NO dark matter? Well turns out there is dark matter there.

NASAs Juno Finds Great Blue Spot Affects Jupiters Entire Magnetic Field

24th May, 2019 - 3969 views

NASA's Juno Mission to Jupiter finds that the Great Blue Spot affects the entire magnetic field

The Era of Direct Imaging of Exoplanets Has Arrived

25th Apr, 2019 - 6150 views

In this episode, astronomers are finally starting to get direct images of planets around other stars, and not only that, for the first time, ground-based telescopes are actually getting measurements of the atmospheres of these galactic neighbors.

ESAs Exoplanet Mission CHEOPS is Ready for Launch

29th Mar, 2019 - 1718 views

Space Fan News is Sponsored by OPT Telescopes and Patreon Patrons: https://bit.ly/2SwhmVB In this episode, the European Space Agency revealed earlier this month that the upcoming CHEOPS mission designed to study the structure of exoplanets smaller t

Standard Sirens To The Rescue LIGO Gets An Upgrade

6th Mar, 2019 - 2390 views

Space Fan News is Sponsored by OPT Telescopes and Patreon Patrons: https://bit.ly/2SwhmVB The LIGO gravitational observatory collaboration receives new funding to upgrade it’s amazing facilities. This should allow astronomers to get more informat

NASA Selects SPHEREx to Study the Early Universe

22nd Feb, 2019 - 2723 views

Space Fan News is Sponsored by OPT Telescopes and Patreon Patrons: https://bit.ly/2SwhmVB In this episode, NASA has added a really cool new mission that will explore the early universe and it is designed to help astronomers understand how our univer

Star Forming Where Planet Should Be

16th Feb, 2019 - 3633 views

Space Fan News is Sponsored by OPT Telescopes and Patreon Patrons: https://bit.ly/2SwhmVB In this episode, astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array have discovered a star forming in a brand new solar system in a spot where