Space

New clues about how ancient galaxies lit up the Universe 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 11, 2019
NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has revealed that some of the Universe’s earliest galaxies were brighter than expected. The excess light is a by-product of the galaxies releasing incredibly high amounts of ionising radiation. The finding offers clues to the cause of the Epoch of Reionisation, a major cosmic event that transformed the universe from being mostly opaque to the brilliant starscape seen today. The new work appears in a paper in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

By David Aragorn
Dying stars called collapsars may forge much of the universe’s gold 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 10, 2019
Spinning stellar objects collapsing into black holes could help explain heavy elements’ origins

By David Aragorn
When Will We See Another Bright Comet?0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 10, 2019
And where have they all gone?

By David Aragorn
NASA Develops Soft Robots for Future Space Missions 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- May 10, 2019
Two interns are prototyping soft robots made using 3D printing and silicon.

By David Aragorn
Huge asteroid destroys New York in Nasa simulation after scientists fail to deflect it 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- May 9, 2019
Fictional crash tests the ways that disaster response and space agencies would deal with such a natural disaster

By David Aragorn
A new filter to better map the dark universe 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- May 9, 2019
New method cuts through galaxies’ messy emissions, provides clearer window into dark matter, dark energy

By David Aragorn
How Walter Alvarez Decoded the Chicxulub Asteroid Strike 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web, Space
- May 9, 2019
Walter Alvarez’s discovery of the element iridium in the K-Pg boundary, and the discovery of the Chicxulub Crater led to the reason for the extinction of the dinosaurs.

By David Aragorn
Simulated asteroid strike flattens Manhattan 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- May 8, 2019
Space experts from several agencies failed to stop an asteroid fragment from wiping out New York City last week.

By David Aragorn
LIGO is on the lookout for these 8 sources of gravitational waves 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 7, 2019
Astronomers still hope to catch a star going supernova and a bumpy neutron star, among others

By David Aragorn
Black hole may have swallowed a neutron star 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 7, 2019
Astrophysicists have detected the gravitational waves produced by a black hole colliding with a neutron star.

By David Aragorn