space

$100M E.T. hunt spots 15 mysterious light flashes 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- September 5, 2017
A $100 million search for intelligent aliens has spied 15 bizarre, repeating flashes of light coming from a distant galaxy.

By David Aragorn
What lit up the universe? Black holes may have punctured darkened galaxies, allowing light to escape 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- September 4, 2017
Soon after the Big Bang, the universe went completely dark.

By David Aragorn
Kepler satellite discovers variability in the Seven Sisters 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- September 2, 2017
The Seven Sisters, as they were known to the ancient Greeks, are now known to modern astronomers as the Pleiades star cluster – a set of stars which are visible to the naked eye and have been studied for thousands of years by cultures all over the world.

By David Aragorn
A NEW KIND OF SPRITE?0
- From Around the Web, Space
- September 2, 2017
Barely 30 years ago, many researchers did not believe that upper atmospheric lightning existeduntil 1989 when researchers from the University of Minnesota captured them on video tape.

By David Aragorn
Strange signals were just spotted coming from a distant galaxy 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- September 1, 2017
But it’s not aliens.

By David Aragorn
ASTEROID FLORENCE APPROACHES EARTH 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- September 1, 2017
Asteroid 3122 Florence is approaching Earth for a 7 million km close encounter on Sept. 1st.

By David Aragorn
Antares: Astronomers Snap Most Detailed Image of Star That’s Not the Sun 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- August 31, 2017
An international team of astronomers from Chile and Germany has managed to capture an image of unprecedented detail of another star — that isn’t the Sun — the red supergiant star Antares. The team has also made the first map of the velocities of material in the atmosphere of a star other than the Sun, revealing unexpected turbulence in the extended atmosphere of Antares.

By David Aragorn
Found: A star that last dazzled astronomers in 1437 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- August 31, 2017
It’s an explosive detective story.

By David Aragorn
Saturn Plunge Nears for Cassini Spacecraft 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- August 30, 2017
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft is 18 days from its mission-ending dive into the atmosphere of Saturn.

By David Aragorn
Hubble Space Telescope Snaps Peculiar Galaxy Pair: NGC 5765 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- August 30, 2017
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has produced a remarkable new image of a pair of interacting galaxies known as NGC 5765.

By David Aragorn