NASA observatory captures a rare stretch of our sun without spots0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 23, 2017
Like a giant egg yolk in the sky
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Walking With Venus’ Wind0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- March 22, 2017
The hellishly hot planet fries spacecraft electronics, so NASA scientists devised a machine inspired by ancient technology.
US Government Issues NASA Demand, ‘Get Humans to Mars By 2033’0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 22, 2017
With a budget $19.508 billion, will NASA be able to get people onto the red neighboring planet?
An almost impossible engineering project lets us time travel to the start of the universe0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- March 21, 2017
Time travel is possible, in a way.
Hubble Discovery of Runaway Star Yields Clues to Breakup of Multiple-Star System0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 20, 2017
As British royal families fought the War of the Roses in the 1400s for control of England’s throne, a grouping of stars was waging its own contentious skirmish — a star war far away in the Orion Nebula.
The radical NASA plan to turn the SUN into a giant ‘magnifying glass’ to look for alien worlds0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 18, 2017
Scientists have devised a radical plan to use the sun as a massive telescope, tapping into an effect known as gravitational lensing to view alien worlds in ultra-high resolution.
Hubble Witnesses Massive Comet-Like Object Pollute Atmosphere of a White Dwarf0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 17, 2017
For the first time, scientists using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have witnessed a massive object with the makeup of a comet being ripped apart and scattered in the atmosphere of a white dwarf, the burned-out remains of a compact star.
Relativistic Electrons Uncovered with NASA’s Van Allen Probes0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 16, 2017
Earth’s radiation belts, two doughnut-shaped regions of charged particles encircling our planet, were discovered more than 50 years ago, but their behavior is still not completely understood.
New Space Weather Model Helps Simulate Magnetic Structure of Solar Storms0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- March 16, 2017
The dynamic space environment that surrounds Earth – the space our astronauts and spacecraft travel through – can be rattled by huge solar eruptions from the sun, which spew giant clouds of magnetic energy and plasma, a hot gas of electrically charged particles, out into space. The magnetic field of these solar eruptions are difficult to predict and can interact with Earth’s magnetic fields, causing space weather effects.
Enceladus’ south pole is warm under the frost0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 15, 2017
Over the past decade, the international Cassini mission has revealed intense activity at the southern pole of Saturn’s icy moon, Enceladus, with warm fractures venting water-rich jets that hint at an underground sea. A new study, based on microwave observations of this region, shows that the moon is warmer than expected just a few metres below its icy surface. This suggests that heat is produced over a broad area in this polar region and transported under the crust, and that Enceladus’ reservoir of liquid water might be lurking only a few kilometres beneath.
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