May 2023 news and research items

 

May 2023 news and research items

Hi everyone please find this month’s Starchart’s and newsletter attached,  

There is a very interesting mix of papers this month, I have just finished reading the one on Antarctica tonight which was very interesting.

There are a few interesting ones on exoplanets, and red dwarfs. A look at the Moons of Uranus possible water oceans still under there surfaces?

There is an interesting video and article on the Kuiper belt.

 

Research papers

 

Two super-Earths at the edge of the habitable zone of the nearby M dwarf TOI-2095

https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.09220

 

Extremely Large Telescopes to Probe Earth-like O2 Levels in Nearby Transiting Habitable Zone Exoplanets

https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.12490

 

A Water-Rich Atmosphere or Stellar Contamination for the Warm Super-Earth GJ~486b

High Tide or Riptide on the Cosmic Shoreline

https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.00868

 

A bloated sub-Saturn on a polar orbit around a differentially rotating solar-type star

https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.12163

 

Orbital pathways for a Lunar-Ejecta Origin of the Near-Earth Asteroid Kamo`oalewa

https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.14136

 

Compositions and Interior Structures of the Large Moons of Uranus

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2022JE007432

 

Palaeogeographic evolution of Zealandia: mid-Cretaceous to present

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00288306.2022.2115520

 

A good look at the eruption here

The 2022 Hunga-Tonga megatsunami

Near-field simulation of a once-in-a-century event

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adf5493

 

Climate-controlled submarine landslides on the Antarctic continental margin

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-38240-y

 

An interesting look at evolution in marsupials here, are they more evolved than Placentals?

Pedomorphosis in the ancestry of marsupial mammals

https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(23)00457-8

 

Simulation of the Earth’s radio-leakage from mobile towers as seen from

selected nearby stellar systems

https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/522/2/2393/7028804

 

Can aliens around nearby stars detect us?

https://earthsky.org/space/et-aliens-nearby-stars-detect-earths-radio-signals

 

Bursts from Space MeerKAT

https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.14157

 

Swarm of lightsail nanosatellites for Solar System exploration

https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.10980

 

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Interesting News items

 

Nearby Stars

https://www.universalworkshop.com/2023/05/20/star-density/#more-15825

 

 

The 100-million-year evolution of our continent

https://www.gns.cri.nz/news/the-geological-evolution-of-our-continent-over-100-million-years

 

This is today's must read - A very good look at university's

https://profgrant.com/2023/04/24/a-falling-out-of-love-letter-to-the-university-we-need-to-talk

 

New Study of Uranus’ Large Moons Shows 4 May Hold Water

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/new-study-of-uranus-large-moons-shows-4-may-hold-water

 

Compositions and Interior Structures of the Large Moons of Uranus

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2022JE007432

 

A second outer Kuiper Belt? (Perhaps a Mars sized "Planet Y in the gap?) interesting to ponder and I hope New Horizons finds another flyby target.

https://spaceref.com/science-and-exploration/second-kuiper-belt-new-horizons-headed/

 

An interesting look at the outer Solar system here, Planet X but a smaller planet Y(A mars sized object?)?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nz2OOcPJxcU

 

 

 

 

 

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