space

Three Weeks Without Sunspots 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 18, 2018
The sun has been blank for 21 days–3 whole weeks without sunspots.

By David Aragorn
Jupiter has 10 newly-discovered moons, and one is a weirdo 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 17, 2018
The survey also confirmed the existence of two other moons, whose discovery was announced last year

By David Aragorn
Pentagon sees quantum computing as key weapon for war in space 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- July 17, 2018
Michael Hayduk, chief of the computing and communications division at the Air Force Research Laboratory says quantum technology will be “disruptive” in areas like data security and GPS-denied navigation.

By David Aragorn
Rare Double Asteroid Spotted by Three of the World’s Largest Radio Telescopes 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 17, 2018
An asteroid first discovered last year has now been confirmed to be one of only four equal mass binary systems ever detected near Earth.

By David Aragorn
Could gravitational waves reveal how fast our universe is expanding?0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 17, 2018
Signals from rare black hole-neutron star pairs could pinpoint rate at which universe is growing, researchers say

By David Aragorn
Juno Spots New Active Volcano on Jupiter Moon’s Io 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 16, 2018
Infrared data collected by NASA’s Juno spacecraft point to a new heat source in the southern hemisphere of Io — Jupiter’s third-largest moon — that could indicate a previously undiscovered volcano.

By David Aragorn
Scientists find the brightest object in the universe from the dawn of time 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 14, 2018
You’ll need more than sunglasses to look at this shiny object in the sky.

By David Aragorn
Global Mosaic and Topographic Maps of Pluto and Charon Released 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 14, 2018
NASA’s New Horizons team has released the first official global mosaic and topographic maps of the dwarf planet Pluto and its largest moon, Charon.

By David Aragorn
MeerKAT radio telescope inaugurated in South Africa – reveals clearest view yet of centre of the Milky Way 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 13, 2018
Deputy President of the Republic of South Africa, Mr David Mabuza, today officially inaugurated the MeerKAT radio telescope.

By David Aragorn
NASA may have discovered and then destroyed organics on Mars in 1976 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 13, 2018
Over 40 years ago, a NASA mission may have accidentally destroyed what would have been the first discovery of organic molecules on Mars, according to a report from New Scientist.

By David Aragorn