More about Airbus Loop space station Rule-Breaking Exoplanet However, it is worth noting that Loop is also just a concept for now with no announced plans for development or launch. So far there have been few realistic concepts of space stations that incorporate artificial gravity. It is designed to provide some extent of artificial gravity to mitigate the negative effects that weightlessness has on the human body. One interesting aspect of it is a centrifuge at the bottom. More about SpaceX Starship Space Station With Artificial GravityĪirbus showed a concept of an orbital space station called Loop. According to Elon Musk, they’ll be ready for another test in 6-8 weeks, but we’ll see if they clear the regulatory hurdles by then. Because of these issues, the FAA has placed an indefinite hold on rocket launches from Boca Chica while SpaceX fixes the problems. The flight termination system failed to destroy the rocket as quickly as SpaceX had hoped. Instead, the enormous rocket gouged out a giant hole in the concrete at its launch pad and rained debris around it. More about the planet getting eaten by its star Starship UpdateĪlthough SpaceX’s Starship cleared the launch pad, it didn’t make it to orbit.

Actually, the Earth might one day follow the same path when the Sun becomes a red giant and expands. It was just 12,000 light-years away, so pretty close.

A hot Jupiter got to close to its parent star and got destroyed by the tidal forces. In the past, we’ve seen evidence of such events but never saw it actually happen. Astronomers witnessed a star devouring one of its planets.

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