space

Titan’s oddly thick atmosphere may come from cooked organic compounds 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 2, 2019
Saturn’s moon is one of the best places to look for life in the solar system

By David Aragorn
Hubble fortuitously discovers a new galaxy in the cosmic neighborhood 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 2, 2019
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to study some of the oldest and faintest stars in the globular cluster NGC 6752 have made an unexpected finding. They discovered a dwarf galaxy in our cosmic backyard, only 30 million light-years away. The finding is reported in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters.

By David Aragorn
NASA’s NICER Mission Maps ‘Light Echoes’ of New Black Hole 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 2, 2019
Scientists have charted the environment surrounding a stellar-mass black hole that is 10 times the mass of the Sun using NASA’s Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) payload aboard the International Space Station.

By David Aragorn
Space changes your brain in bigger ways than we thought 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 1, 2019
We are already aware of many of the dangers that spaceflight can inflict on the human body.

By David Aragorn
Missing-link in planet evolution found 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 1, 2019
For the first time ever, astronomers have detected a 1.3 km radius body at the edge of the Solar System. Kilometer sized bodies like the one discovered have been predicted to exist for more than 70 years. These objects acted as an important step in the planet formation process between small initial amalgamations of dust and ice and the planets we see today.

By David Aragorn
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover weighed the mountain it’s climbing 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 1, 2019
Rock under the rover’s wheels is more like soil than cement, a clue to how Mount Sharp formed

By David Aragorn
What Spacecraft Will Enter Interstellar Space Next?0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 31, 2019
In December 2018, NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft reached interstellar space, following the example of its sister, Voyager 1. Right now, only five spacecraft have been launched capable of making such a grand exit, including the Voyagers. The remaining three are Pioneers 10 and 11, and New Horizons. Which one will be the next to make a great escape?

By David Aragorn
How to escape a black hole: Simulations provide new clues about powerful plasma jets 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 30, 2019
Interplay of twisting magnetic field, ‘negative-energy’ particles

By David Aragorn
The future of space-based astronomy may depend on two large ground-based telescopes 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 30, 2019
At the largest conference of astronomers in the United States, the biggest astronomy mission under development was virtually a no-show.

By David Aragorn
Astronomers Find Dark Energy May Vary Over Time 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- January 30, 2019
A new study using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and ESA’s XMM-Newton suggests that dark energy may have varied over cosmic time, as reported in our latest press release.

By David Aragorn