Space

Cosmic “flying V” of merging galaxies 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 26, 2016
This large “flying V” is actually two distinct objects — a pair of interacting galaxies known as IC 2184.

By David Aragorn
Chandra Finds Evidence for Serial Black Hole Eruptions 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 26, 2016
Astronomers have used NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory to show that, multiple eruptions from a supermassive black hole over 50 million years have rearranged the cosmic landscape at the center of a group of galaxies.

By David Aragorn
Kepler has caught hundreds of asteroids 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 25, 2016
Kepler has had managed to ‘catch’ many meteors and asteroids in its mission to observe stars, and some astronomers have decided to use this data.

By David Aragorn
Schiaparelli: Mars probe ‘crash site identified’0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 25, 2016
The gouge in the ground probably made by Europe’s Schiaparelli probe as it hit the surface of Mars on Wednesday has been imaged by a US satellite.

By David Aragorn
‘Planet Nine’ Can’t Hide Much Longer, Scientists Say 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 25, 2016
Planet Nine’s days of lurking unseen in the dark depths of the outer solar system may be numbered.

By David Aragorn
Did 40-year-old Viking experiment discover life on Mars?0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 25, 2016
In 1976, two Viking landers became the first US spacecraft from Earth to touch down on Mars. They took the first high-resolution images of the planet, surveyed the planet’s geographical features, and analyzed the geological composition of the atmosphere and surface. Perhaps most intriguingly, they also performed experiments that searched for signs of microbial life in Martian soil.

By David Aragorn
The Sun’s Mysterious Tilt Gets A Surprising Explanation Astronomers point to Planet Nine.0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 23, 2016
“So Planet Nine has tilted the entire disk of the solar system by 6 degrees and because we live on that disk…to us it looks like the sun is tilted, but it’s actually the other way around.”

By Around the Web Editor
Juno Spacecraft in Safe Mode for Latest Jupiter Flyby 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 22, 2016
NASA’s Juno spacecraft entered safe mode Tuesday, Oct. 18 at about 10:47 p.m. PDT (Oct. 19 at 1:47 a.m. EDT). Early indications are a software performance monitor induced a reboot of the spacecraft’s onboard computer.

By David Aragorn
Did LIGO detect black holes or gravastars?0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 21, 2016
After the first direct detection of gravitational waves that was announced last February by the LIGO Scientific Collaboration and made news all over the world, Luciano Rezzolla (Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany) and Cecilia Chirenti (Federal University of ABC in Santo André, Brazil) set out to test whether the observed signal could have been a gravastar or not. The results were recently resented in a paper published on Physical Review D.

By David Aragorn
Volcanoes on Venus Erupted Recently, New Study Suggests 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 21, 2016
Volcanic activity on Venus took place in the recent past, geologically speaking, and may still be happening on the planet today. New research takes a deeper look at one recent eruption on Venus’ surface.

By David Aragorn