Space

Space-Based Test Proves Light’s Quantum Weirdness 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- October 26, 2017
Lasers bounced off satellites replicate classic “delayed choice” experiment

By David Aragorn
Space Station Unit to Study Genetics of Model Organisms 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- October 25, 2017
Scientists and engineers are developing new hardware destined for the International Space Station to support experiments demonstrating how different organisms, such as plants, microbes or worms, develop under conditions of microgravity. Results from the Spectrum project will shed light on which living things are best suited for long-duration flights into deep space.

By David Aragorn
NASA’s MAVEN mission finds Mars has a twisted magnetic tail 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 24, 2017
Mars has an invisible magnetic ‘tail’ that is twisted by interaction with the solar wind, according to new research using data from NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft.

By David Aragorn
Scientist sees evidence of planet formation in narrow rings of other solar systems 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 20, 2017
Narrow dense rings of comets are coming together to form planets on the outskirts of at least three distant solar systems, astronomers have found in data from a pair of NASA telescopes.

By David Aragorn
NASA’s Robotic Psyche Mission To Communicate Using Lasers –“Think of It As a Telescope at the Core of an Extinct Planet”0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 20, 2017
A spacecraft destined to explore a unique asteroid will also test new communication hardware that uses lasers instead of radio waves.

By David Aragorn
A solar-powered asteroid nursery at the orbit of Mars 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 20, 2017
The planet Mars shares its orbit with a handful of small asteroids, the so-called Trojans. Among them, one finds a unique group, all moving in very similar orbits, suggesting that they originated from the same object.

By David Aragorn
Huge cave found on moon, could house astronauts: Japan scientists 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 19, 2017
Scientists at Japan’s space agency have discovered a huge moon cave that could one day house a base that would shelter astronauts from dangerous radiation and wild temperature swings, officials said Thursday.

By David Aragorn
NASA Missions Catch First Light from a Gravitational-Wave Event 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 19, 2017
For the first time, NASA scientists have detected light tied to a gravitational-wave event, thanks to two merging neutron stars in the galaxy NGC 4993, located about 130 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Hydra.

By David Aragorn
Ring discovered around ‘potato-shaped’ dwarf planet Haumea 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 18, 2017
A ring system has been found around a dwarf planet for the first time — the distant, potato-shaped Haumea, which lies beyond Neptune.

By David Aragorn
HURRICANE + DESERT DUST = WEIRD SKIES 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 18, 2017
For the past two days, sky watchers in parts of Europe have reported strange colors in the daytime sky.

By David Aragorn