Space

Breathtaking new map of the X-ray Universe 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 23, 2020
Behold the hot, energetic Universe.

By David Aragorn
eROSITA X-Ray Telescope Captures Hot, Energetic Universe 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 20, 2020
A new all-sky image from the eROSITA X-ray telescope onboard the Spectrum-Roentgen-Gamma (SRG) space observatory contains over one million objects, about half of which are new to astronomers.

By David Aragorn
Two Stars Going “Haywire” Captured In Stunning Hubble Image 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 20, 2020
Two stunning images captured by the Hubble Space Telescope show layers of gas and dust as they eject, swirl, and interact between two nebulas known as NGC 6302 and NGC 7027.

By David Aragorn
The Launch Is Approaching for NASA’s Next Mars Rover, Perseverance 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 19, 2020
The Red Planet’s surface has been visited by eight NASA spacecraft. The ninth will be the first that includes gathering Mars samples for future return to Earth.

By David Aragorn
Astronomers Discover Youngest Magnetar Ever 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 19, 2020
Using NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, ESA’s XMM-Newton observatory, NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR), and ground-based telescopes, astronomers have detected a hard X-ray burst, a long-lived outburst and a number of strong and short radio pulses from an infant neutron star with a magnetic field some 70 quadrillion times stronger than that of Earth. Named Swift J1818.0-1607, the object emitted X-rays about 16,000 years ago, when it was about 240 years old.

By David Aragorn
Black hole plasma jets are shaped like bell-bottoms 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 19, 2020
Streams of plasma shooting away from galaxies flare at the ends

By David Aragorn
Astronomers detect regular rhythm of radio waves, with origins unknown 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 18, 2020
Signal from 500 million light years away is the first periodic pattern of radio bursts detected

By David Aragorn
π-Earth: Newfound Earth-Sized Exoplanet Orbits Its Star in 3.14 Days 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 18, 2020
Using data from NASA’s Kepler/K2 mission, the SPECULOOS telescopes and the High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer (HIRES) on the Keck I telescope at W.M. Keck Observatory, astronomers have discovered a transiting Earth-sized planet in a close-in orbit around the red dwarf EPIC 249631677.

By David Aragorn
New ideas in the search for dark matter 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 17, 2020
Since the 1980s, researchers have been running experiments in search of particles that make up dark matter, an invisible substance that permeates our galaxy and universe. Coined dark matter because it gives off no light, this substance, which constitutes more than 80 percent of matter in our universe, has been shown repeatedly to influence ordinary matter through its gravity. Scientists know it is out there but do not know what it is.

By David Aragorn
Weirdly-Shaped Wormholes Might Work Better Than Spherical Ones 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 17, 2020
Wormholes, or tunnels in the fabric of space-time, are ferociously unstable. As soon as even a single photon slips down the tunnel, the wormhole closes in a flash.

By David Aragorn