space

Dwarf Planet Ceres Camouflaged by Asteroid Dust 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 26, 2017
The dwarf planet Ceres is cloaked in a layer of asteroid dust that disguises its true surface composition, a new study suggests.

By David Aragorn
Have We Detected Hundreds of Signals From Extraterrestrial Life?0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 25, 2017
It’s a bold claim: A Canadian astronomer says he’s found not just one alien signal from a far-away world, but 234 of them.

By David Aragorn
Colliding black holes would wrap space time itself, making objects around them travel back an forth in time 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 25, 2017
Study finds that if two black holes collide, they would release as much energy as 100 million supernova explosion.

By David Aragorn
NuSTAR Finds New Clues to ‘Chameleon Supernova’0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 25, 2017
“We’re made of star stuff,” astronomer Carl Sagan famously said. Nuclear reactions that happened in ancient stars generated much of the material that makes up our bodies, our planet and our solar system. When stars explode in violent deaths called supernovae, those newly formed elements escape and spread out in the universe.

By David Aragorn
NOAA’s New Satellite Sent Back Its First Amazing Images 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 25, 2017
The GOES-R satellite was one of the most eagerly anticipated satellites in recent memory. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration launched it in November 2016 with the promise to revolutionize weather forecasting in the U.S.

By David Aragorn
Astronomers Catch A Quasar Shutting Off 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 24, 2017
Last week, astronomers at Yale University reported seeing something unusual: a seemingly stedfast beacon from the far reaches of the Universe went quiet.

By David Aragorn
Black hole caught napping after meal 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 23, 2017
A black hole 11 million light-years away has gone dormant, a decade after being spotted consuming cosmic debris.

By David Aragorn
ESO Captures First-Ever Clear Image of An Exoplanet Candidate, And It’s 11 Quadrillion km Away 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 21, 2017
For the first time ever, ESO astronomers have been able to capture a clear image of a star system 11 quadrillion kilometers away using the combined forces of the Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile, the Keck Observatory in Hawaii, and the Calar Alto Observatory in Spain.

By David Aragorn
Mars Rover Curiosity Examines Possible Mud Cracks 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 21, 2017
Scientists used NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover in recent weeks to examine slabs of rock cross-hatched with shallow ridges that likely originated as cracks in drying mud.

By David Aragorn
Huygens: ‘Ground Truth’ From an Alien Moon 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 19, 2017
After a two-and-a-half-hour descent, the metallic, saucer-shaped spacecraft came to rest with a thud on a dark floodplain covered in cobbles of water ice, in temperatures hundreds of degrees below freezing.

By David Aragorn