space

Follow the life of the last man on the moon 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 18, 2017
Eugene Cernan’s career was by any measure a triumph but a new profile spares a thought for the people left in his wake

By David Aragorn
Deepest X-ray image ever reveals black hole treasure trove 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 17, 2017
An unparalleled image from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory is giving an international team of astronomers the best look yet at the growth of black holes over billions of years beginning soon after the Big Bang.

By David Aragorn
Second Spacewalk of 2017 Successfully Complete 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 17, 2017
Expedition 50 Commander Shane Kimbrough and Flight Engineer Thomas Pesquet concluded their spacewalk at 12:20 p.m. EST.

By David Aragorn
Iridium-1 Mission in Photos 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 16, 2017
On January 14, 2017, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 successfully delivered 10 satellites to low-Earth orbit for Iridium, a global leader in mobile voice and data satellite communications.

By David Aragorn
That ‘alien megastructure’ star might actually be a planet-eater 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 14, 2017
Starving stars are more common than intelligent life

By David Aragorn
New Method Could Aid Search for Life on Alien Worlds 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 13, 2017
A newly proposed technique could make it possible to search for life on alien planets much sooner than scientists had expected.

By David Aragorn
Hubble Captures ‘Shadow Play’ Caused by Possible Planet 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 13, 2017
Searching for planets around other stars is a tricky business. They’re so small and faint that it’s hard to spot them. But a possible planet in a nearby stellar system may be betraying its presence in a unique way: by a shadow that is sweeping across the face of a vast pancake-shaped gas-and-dust disk surrounding a young star.

By David Aragorn
The Milky Way’s black hole is spewing out planet-size ‘spitballs’0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 13, 2017
Every few thousand years, an unlucky star wanders too close to the black hole at the center of the Milky Way. The black hole’s powerful gravity rips the star apart, sending a long streamer of gas whipping outward.

By David Aragorn
Basking in Light 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 13, 2017
Sunlight truly has come to Saturn’s north pole. The whole northern region is bathed in sunlight in this view from late 2016, feeble though the light may be at Saturn’s distant domain in the solar system.

By David Aragorn
Colliding stars will light up the night sky in 2022 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 10, 2017
A team of astronomers is making a bold prediction: In 2022, give or take a year, a pair of stars will merge and explode, becoming one of the brightest objects in the sky for a short period.

By David Aragorn