Space

SUMMER SUN HALOS 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 28, 2018
Yesterday’s high temperature in Florianópolis, Brazil, topped 90 degrees F, typical of the region’s warm summer days.

By David Aragorn
Mysterious isolated object investigated by astronomers 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 27, 2018
An international team of astronomers led by Philippe Delorme of the Grenoble Alpes University in France has recently investigated a mysterious object designated CFBDSIR J214947.2-040308.9 (CFBDSIR 2149-0403 for short) in order to reveal its true nature.

By David Aragorn
On second thought, the Moon’s water may be widespread and immobile 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 26, 2018
A new analysis of data from two lunar missions finds evidence that the Moon’s water is widely distributed across the surface and is not confined to a particular region or type of terrain.

By David Aragorn
EARTH’S MAGNETIC FIELD IS RINGING LIKE A BELL 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 23, 2018
On Febuary 22nd, a high speed solar wind stream is passing just south of Earth, making grazing contact with our planet’s magnetic field. This is causing something unusual to happen. Around the poles, Earth’s magnetic field has been ringing like a bell. Rob Stammes recorded the phenomenon from his magnetic observatory in Lofoton, Norway.

By David Aragorn
A Giant Storm on Neptune Is Disappearing as Hubble Telescope Watches 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 23, 2018
A dark storm on Neptune, once big enough to reach from Boston to Portugal, is dwindling to nothing as the Hubble Space Telescope keeps watch.

By David Aragorn
An amateur astronomer accidentally caught an exploding star on camera—and it gets better 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 22, 2018
He was excited to test his new camera, but he also captured something totally unique.

By David Aragorn
NASA’s Juno Spacecraft Completes Eleventh Jupiter Flyby, Delivers New Photos 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 22, 2018
NASA’s Juno orbiter successfully made its eleventh flyby of Jupiter on February 7, 2018.

By David Aragorn
Asteroids Could Be ‘Time Capsules’ Showing How Life Began on Earth 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 22, 2018
As much as we tend to panic over the idea of an asteroid crashing into the Earth, one possible explanation for life on Earth is that an asteroid brought it here in the first place.

By David Aragorn
Tiny Martian Moons Hint at Red Planet’s Adolescent Rejection 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 21, 2018
Like a teenage diary you can’t throw away, Mars might carry a reminder of its difficult formative years in its tiny moons. A paper published by the Royal Astronomical Society suggests the strangely small Phobos and Deimos could result from a traumatic slingshot rejection of the Red planet from the inner solar system early in its formation, stunting its own growth and removing debris to form a larger moon like our own.

By David Aragorn
NASA’s K2 Mission Discovers 95 New Extrasolar Planets 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 17, 2018
Astronomers using data from NASA’s extended Kepler mission, known as K2, have discovered 95 new exoplanets, with sizes ranging from mostly rocky super-Earths and fluffy mini-Neptunes to Jupiter-like gaseous giants.

By David Aragorn