{"id":169085,"date":"2025-12-01T11:08:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T11:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/169085\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T11:08:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T11:08:08","slug":"maynooth-university-satellite-hitches-ride-on-musk-rocket-for-new-star-tracking-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/169085\/","title":{"rendered":"Maynooth University Satellite Hitches Ride On Musk Rocket For New Star-Tracking Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/692d70eab87c4.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            The team at Maynooth University, led by astrophysicist Dr Emma Whelan, will use the satellite to study young, developing stars called Herbig Ae\/Be stars.\n        <\/p>\n<p>Maynooth University has joined an international space mission studying how stars are born and how they shape the planets around them.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cMauve\u201d satellite &#8211; a small UV telescope launched last week on a SpaceX rocket &#8211; has begun a three-year mission to monitor stellar flares and their impact on potentially habitable worlds.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX is owned by Elon Musk.<\/p>\n<p>The team at Maynooth University, led by astrophysicist Dr Emma Whelan, will use the satellite to study young, developing stars called Herbig Ae\/Be stars.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019ll track changes in their brightness over weeks and months to look for clues about how stars and planets form.<\/p>\n<p>It is hoped that it will help scientists understand the effects of powerful stellar flares on exoplanets and their potential for harbouring life.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Whelan says the mission opens a \u201cfresh window\u201d on star formation, offering data that ground-based telescopes can\u2019t capture.<\/p>\n<p>Mauve is a lightweight, suitcase-sized satellite built in under three years.<\/p>\n<p>Research institutions worldwide have already secured subscriptions to access data collected by Mauve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The team at Maynooth University, led by astrophysicist Dr Emma Whelan, will use the satellite to study young,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169086,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[61,60,28328,3770,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-169085","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-science","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-kfm","11":"tag-kildare","12":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}