space

Our Planet Is Travelling Through The Debris of Ancient Supernovae 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 28, 2021
Radioactive dust deep beneath the ocean waves suggests that Earth is moving through a massive cloud left behind by an exploded star.

By David Aragorn
Asteroid’s 22m-year journey from source to Earth mapped in historic first 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 28, 2021
Flight path of Kalahari’s six-tonne asteroid is first tracing of meteorite shedding rock to solar system origin

By David Aragorn
Giant radio pulses and X-ray surges are coming from the Crab Nebula 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 28, 2021
The hauntingly beautiful Crab Nebula, located 6,500 light-years away in the Taurus constellation, is releasing an incredible amount of energy.

By David Aragorn
One of the smallest black holes — and the closest to Earth so far — discovered. Scientists call it ‘the Unicorn.’0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 27, 2021
Astronomers have discovered one of the smallest black holes to date, sitting just 1,500 light-years away which also makes it the closest one to Earth found so far. And they have called it “the Unicorn.”

By David Aragorn
Space is the final frontier for archaeologists 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 27, 2021
The boot prints left by Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong are a tangible legacy of one of humanity’s greatest achievements — putting a man on the moon.

By David Aragorn
NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Succeeds in Historic First Flight 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 26, 2021
Monday, NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter became the first aircraft in history to make a powered, controlled flight on another planet. The Ingenuity team at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California confirmed the flight succeeded after receiving data from the helicopter via NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover at 6:46 a.m. EDT (3:46 a.m. PDT).

By David Aragorn
Scientists brought ‘Mars spiders’ to Earth—here’s how 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 15, 2021
Researchers used Halloween SFX to simulate the Martian south pole in springtime.

By David Aragorn
More than 5,000 tons of extraterrestrial dust fall to Earth each year 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 15, 2021
Every year, our planet encounters dust from comets and asteroids. These interplanetary dust particles pass through our atmosphere and give rise to shooting stars. Some of them reach the ground in the form of micrometeorites. An international program conducted for nearly 20 years by scientists from the CNRS, the Université Paris-Saclay and the National museum of natural history with the support of the French polar institute, has determined that 5,200 tons per year of these micrometeorites reach the ground. The study will be available in the journal Earth & Planetary Science Letters from April 15.

By David Aragorn
It’s still unclear what dark matter is, but now we know what it isn’t 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 15, 2021
Physicists have concluded that some masses of boson particles — members of the things-that-could-explain-dark-matter club — don’t actually exist, meaning the parameters for locating the presumably vast but hypothetical material just became more refined.

By David Aragorn
A record-breaking, oxygen-starved galaxy may be full of gigantic stars’ shrapnel 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 14, 2021
The pristine galaxy provides a glimpse at conditions that prevailed in the early universe

By David Aragorn