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I took a couple of weeks off blogging while I had my exams at thestart of the month. This is what I missed. ESA has approved a billion-euro mission to Jupiter's icymoons, called Juice (Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer). The spacecraftwill (hopefully) launch in 2022 and reach Jupiter eight years laterin 2030. When it gets there it will first fly by Europa a couple oftimes before moving out to higher latitudes to look down on thepoles and magnetic field of Jupiter, before slowing down to studythe subsurface ocean and geology of Ganymede. The BBC has a nice round up of the announcement with a few of interviews, including one withImperial's own Michele Dougherty. Also at the BBC, Jonathan Amos dons clean room gear to go and have a look at the Mid-Infrared Instrument (Miri) forthe James Webb Space Telescope, before it gets shipped to NASA. The origin of a type of stellar explosion known as a type 1asupernova (that has been catching my eye for a while now ) has been cleared up a little, or muddied further, depending onwhich way you look at it. Apparently, both explanations that havebeen put forward to explain the impressive death of certain stars could be right. I might write a longer post about this, if I get the time. NASA's Dawn spacecraft revealed that asteroid Vesta is a survivor of the formation ofplanets in the early solar system , and plenty more to boot . Kepler finds an invisible exoplanet . Or rather, researchers detected it based on its interactions withother planets, they didn't "see" it directy.Also, check out the last author's affiliation on the paper that announced the result. A beautiful time lapse of Iceland and its midnight sun that just won the Grand Prize in the X Prize Foundation s videocontest "Why Do You Explore?". And a beautiful picture of some cosmic dust . Finally, a little self promotion: With some fellow mastersstudents, I'm co-running a radio show on Imperial'sstudent radio station. I was there on Wednesday talking about thenot-so-supermoon you might have seen the other weekend. You canlisten to past episodes here or listen live every Wednesday from 12-1 London time. Check it outif you like science and/or people messing up on live radio! Did anything else notable happen while I wasn't looking?. I am an expert from led-globe-lights.com, while we provides the quality product, such as T8 LED Tubes , China GU10 LED Spotlight, E14 LED Candle Light,and more.
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