Post by rmarks1 on Dec 24, 2018 0:02:52 GMT -5
April
The TESS spacecraft launched
April 25: Using data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission launched in 2013, the three-dimensional map of the Milky Way is the most detailed survey ever produced of our home galaxy.
June
Some building blocks of life are identified on Mars
Some building blocks of life are identified on Mars
July
Cosmic rays were traced to their source for the first time
Cosmic rays were traced to their source for the first time
Astronomers announced that a neutrino first detected in Antarctica had been linked to a supermassive black hole in a distant galaxy, some 4 billion light-years from Earth. The finding was expected to help future detections of high-energy particles form space.
July 25: A European orbiter detected a 12-mile-wide underground liquid pool, similar to lakes found beneath Greenland and Antarctica’s ice. “There are all the ingredients for thinking that life can be there, or can be maintained there if life once existed on Mars,” said the Italian scientist who led the research.
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