
Copernical Team
NASA's mixtape for extraterrestrial civilizations

In 1977, NASA created two LP records with tracks of global music, greetings in different languages, sounds of the planet, and sonified images, and then attached them to the two robotic probes launched that year as part of the Voyager space mission bound for the outer solar system and beyond. This Golden Record, said Alexander Rehding, Fanny Peabody Professor of Music, is "effectively a mixtape for extraterrestrial civilizations, a sign that we exist and a glimpse of what human culture is about.
Could low-altitude reconnection power Jupiter's polar aurorae?

Like Earth, Jupiter's magnetic field channels electrically charged particles into its atmosphere, resulting in the formation of brilliant aurorae near its poles. However, the brightness and variety of Jupiter's auroral emissions exceed those generated on our planet. Of particular interest are patches of emission that originate from even closer to the poles than the main aurorae, a feature that appears far stronger at Jupiter than at Earth or Saturn.
This is what it looks like when a black hole snacks on a star

How planets may be seeded with the chemicals necessary for life

Observations in stellar factory indicates start of planet production

Mushballs stash away missing ammonia at Uranus and Neptune

China brings astronauts back, advances closer to "space station era"

DOD taking measures to protect nuclear weapons, space assets

Mars habitability limited by its small size, isotope study suggests

Lunar crater named after Arctic Explorer Matthew Henson
