First results from OSIRIS-REx asteroid-return mission show that Bennu might be a hunk of planet that was wet, possibly tectonically active, full of organic material, and bathed in light from a star or stars that were destroyed before our solar system existed and may have seeded all of us 🧪🔭
Scientists have scarcely begun studying pristine material from asteroid Bennu brought back to Earth by the OSIRIS-REx mission, but have already found several surprises
great googly moogly this is a fascinating read (and well-written)
So cool!
Mind blowing and a reminder we're so irrelevant.
Hot damn! Somewhere in the ancient past before the sun's first dawn, there was another sun and another world with warmth and water and the very seeds of life. And somehow, a tiny fragment of that place found its way under a microscope. It's beautiful!
so neat 😭🔭
Thanks for drawing this to our attention--a fascinating piece.
That is a great read, thank you
Who doesn't love a wet hunk of a planet?! *fans self* 😍