space

Big star energy: record-breaking explosion recorded 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 23, 2019
Astronomers note record-breaking observation of highest energy ever measured from gamma ray bursts

By David Aragorn
Extraterrestrial Sugar Found in Space Rocks Show that Meteorites May Have Led to Origin of Life on Earth 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 22, 2019
In a first, an international team has found sugars essential to life in meteorites.

By David Aragorn
NASA’s adorable underwater rover might be the first to discover alien life 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 22, 2019
NASA is about to put a rover to the test in Antarctica, and it’s unlike any robot the agency has ever shot into space.

By David Aragorn
The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope Could Find More of Earth’s Transient Moons 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 22, 2019
It is a well-known astronomical convention that Earth has only one natural satellite, which is known (somewhat uncreatively) as “the Moon”. However, astronomers have known for a little over a decade that Earth also has a population of what are known as “transient Moons”. These are a subset of Near-Earth Objects (NEOs) that are temporarily scooped up by Earth’s gravity and assume orbits around our planet.

By David Aragorn
Earth’s magnetic song recorded for the first time during a solar storm 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 22, 2019
Data from ESA’s Cluster mission has provided a recording of the eerie “song” that Earth sings when it is hit by a solar storm.

By David Aragorn
How to watch over 400 meteors shoot through the sky for an hour Thursday night 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 21, 2019
The night sky could light up with hundreds of shooting stars for an hour on Thursday thanks to a spectacular celestial event.

By David Aragorn
Advocates promote planetary defense mission ahead of ESA ministerial 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 21, 2019
A group of planetary defense advocates is asking European governments to fund a mission to a near Earth asteroid, three years after a similar mission failed to win approval.

By David Aragorn
A weird, orbital dance keeps these moons of Neptune from hitting each other 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 21, 2019
Bobbing up and down like a carousel horse might not sound like a stable way to orbit a planet, but it works for one little moon of Neptune. The planet’s innermost known satellite, Naiad, has a tilted orbit and it moves up-and-down relative to its neighboring moon, Thalassa.

By David Aragorn
If alien life exists in our solar system, it may look like this 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- November 21, 2019
Source: National Geographic Outside, the sinking sun is coloring the autumnal sky a brilliant lavender, a rich hue that lingers over a vast blanket of ice. Here, off the northern coast of Greenland, the Arctic Ocean is masquerading as land, a snowy patchwork of smooth ice floes and abrupt, jagged piles of crystalline debris. Only

By David Aragorn
NASA Scientists Confirm Water Vapor on Europa 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 21, 2019
Forty years ago, a Voyager spacecraft snapped the first closeup images of Europa, one of Jupiter’s 79 moons. These revealed brownish cracks slicing the moon’s icy surface, which give Europa the look of a veiny eyeball. Missions to the outer solar system in the decades since have amassed enough additional information about Europa to make it a high-priority target of investigation in NASA’s search for life.

By David Aragorn