Hey Everyone, here’s a space science
update for Tuesday September 3rd.
Strange pinging sounds being heard on the
Starliner module by astronauts on the ISS over the weekend have stopped according to NASA.
The space agency says they were the result of feedback due to an audio misconfiguration
between the Starliner capsule and the ISS. The audio system on the ISS is complex and apparently
feedback and odd noises are not uncommon.
New research suggests that early galaxies
observed recently by JWST have not in fact grown too massive too quickly to be explained
by current cosmological models. The research from the University of Texas at Austin
shows that accretion around black holes in these galaxies may make them appear much
brighter and more massive than they really are. Independent spectral analysis of these
galaxies dubbed “little red dots” also shows signs of black hole activity. While this
seems to resolve one major puzzle, there are still roughly twice as many massive galaxies
in the JWST data as expected and astronomers are currently working to explain this.
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