space

NASA Announces Discovery of First Interstellar Object 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 31, 2017
An object that isn’t acting like most other objects in space has been picked up by a telescope in Hawaii that takes images for NASA.

By David Aragorn
Jupiter’s strange, pulsating auroras are even more mysterious than we thought 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 30, 2017
Researchers hope Juno could help shed light on why Jupiter’s northern and southern lights behave differently.

By David Aragorn
Frozen Comet Fart (Actually a Jet) Caught on Camera 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 28, 2017
It looks like Rosetta’s comet was a bit of a tooter. A fart from the comet — which scientists called “a bright plume of dust blowing away … like a fountain” — likely originated from the comet’s insides, maybe from ancient gas vents or unseen ice.

By David Aragorn
The spooky ‘sounds’ of space: NASA releases compilation of eerie noises converted from the radio emissions of planets and stars 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 28, 2017
NASA has released a chilling compilation of the ‘sounds’ of space, bringing to life the radio emissions captured by its spacecraft as they journey across the solar system.

By David Aragorn
China’s Fall Guy: Tiangong-1 Space Lab to Crash in Early 2018 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 28, 2017
China’s Tiangong-1 space lab is headed for an uncontrolled and destructive nose-dive into Earth’s atmosphere early next year.

By David Aragorn
Evidence suggest a collision and several close encounters with comets in the last 2000 years 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 27, 2017
If you have long suspected the mainstream is being less than honest [or simply delusional] when they describe Comets as “dirty snowballs” or [more recently] “icy dirtballs” then you might be interested to discover Close Cometary Encounters are associated with sudden spikes in the level of Thorium 232.

By David Aragorn
Missing matter in the Sun’s interior 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 27, 2017
It is often assumed that a structure’s surface can be appropriately represented as a two-dimensional area, completely flat and devoid of any depth.

By David Aragorn
AN UNUSUAL COMET DIVES TOWARD THE SUN 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 26, 2017
Deep inside the orbit of Mercury, unusual comet 96P/Machholz is diving toward the sun today.

By David Aragorn
Space-Based Test Proves Light’s Quantum Weirdness 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- October 26, 2017
Lasers bounced off satellites replicate classic “delayed choice” experiment

By David Aragorn
Space Station Unit to Study Genetics of Model Organisms 0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- October 25, 2017
Scientists and engineers are developing new hardware destined for the International Space Station to support experiments demonstrating how different organisms, such as plants, microbes or worms, develop under conditions of microgravity. Results from the Spectrum project will shed light on which living things are best suited for long-duration flights into deep space.

By David Aragorn