Aerospace

Check Out Black Hole Observations Live

NASA is hosting a news teleconference to announce black hole observations from its newest X-ray telescope, the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR), and the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton X-ray telescope. This is obviously big news and h ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Feb 27 2013 - 1:09pm

If We Can Save Even One Drone...

For a government that likes military action but not losing American lives, drones are the next big thing.   Drones have been, and will continue to be, used in more and more applications outside the military, including citizen surveillance and natural disa ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 28 2013 - 10:40am

Has Voyager 1 Left The Solar System? Cosmic Rays Say Yes

Beginning a few years ago, speculation began about when Voyager I would leave the solar system.  There was no sure way to know, the solar system has no official boundary, so scientists were looking for signs. 35 years after its launch, it seems Voyager 1 ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 20 2013 - 12:57pm

Planck Shows What The Universe Looked Like As A 'Child'

The mission of the ESA Planck satellite is to observe the Universe of the past, seeing back in time, right after the Big Bang. The image that the Planck scientists revealed today is that of the Universe as a child, dating back to about 380,000 years after ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 21 2013 - 12:39pm

Planck Helps Scientists Read The Cosmic Writing On The Wall

Thanks to a supersensitive space telescope and some sophisticated supercomputing, scientists from the international Planck collaboration have made the closest reading yet of the most ancient story in our universe: the cosmic microwave background (CMB). To ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 21 2013 - 12:56pm

30 Billion Cosmic Ray Events Measured By Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer- But Still No Dark Matter

The first published results from the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) physics experiment on the International Space Station were announced today and though the result is the most precise measurement to date of the ratio of positrons to electrons in cosmi ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 3 2013 - 5:57pm

SN UDS10Wil: Hubble Pushes Supernova Record Back 350 Million Years

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has found the farthest supernova so far. Supernova UDS10Wil, nicknamed SN Wilson after American President Woodrow Wilson, exploded more than 10 billion years ago. SN UDS10Wil is a Type Ia supernovae. These beacons can be ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 4 2013 - 11:12am

Long Observation- Supernova SN 1006 Gets A New X-Ray View A Thousand Years After First Sighting

X-ray astronomy is only 50 years old but nothing shows the progress of the technology like a new view of a supernova scientists watched over a thousand years ago.  ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 17 2013 - 4:58pm

Satellites Will Get Treated To 3 Coronal Mass Ejections

A coronal mass ejection (CME) is when our sun sends billions of tons of solar particles into space. A CME can affect electronic systems in satellites and NASA recently saw three. ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 22 2013 - 1:02pm

Orbital Traffic Control: How NASA Tracks 17,000 Objects Above Earth To Prevent Collisions

Imagine being the project scientist for a NASA experiment and getting an email telling you that a 3,100 lb. defunct spy satellite dating back to the Cold War might crash into your baby? That's what happened to Julie McEnery of NASA's Fermi Gamma ...

Article - News Staff - May 1 2013 - 10:06am