Space
- Gravitational Redshift: 8,000 Galaxy Clusters Confirm General Theory Of Relativity In A Big Way
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Where would we be without relativity? Observations in astronomy are based on light emitted from stars and galaxies and the light will be affected by gravity, according to the General Theory of Relativity, which is actually quite special, despite its name. ...
Article - News Staff - Sep 28 2011 - 2:20pm
- Hartley 2- A Comet With Ocean-Like Water
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Did comets deliver a significant portion of the Earth's oceans millions of years after the Earth formed? Some new evidence in Nature lends weight to the idea. Using HiFi, the Heterodyne Instrument for the Infrared on the Hershel Space Observatory, r ...
Article - News Staff - Oct 5 2011 - 1:51pm
- Antennae Galaxies Get An ALMA Close-Up
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The world's most complex ground-based astronomy observatory, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) on on the Chajnantor plateau in northern Chile, has officially opened for astronomers. A lack of light pollution and anti-science hip ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Oct 7 2011 - 11:57am
- A Meteor Storm Tonight: Watch The Draconids!
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The Draconids (also called Giacobinids) are a meteor shower associated to comet Giacobini-Zinner (see below for a 100-year-old picture of the comet). While most years this shower passes unnoticed to all but few professionals and experts amateurs, yielding ...
Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Oct 8 2011 - 9:41am
- WD 0806-661 B: Planet-Sized Object Is As Cool As Earth Too
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A new photo of a nearby star and its orbiting companion shows the planet has a temperature like a hot summer day in Arizona. ...
Article - News Staff - Oct 19 2011 - 4:08pm
- Organic Compounds Similar To Coal Found In Star Dust
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Astronomers are reporting that organic compounds of unexpected complexity exist throughout the Universe- which mean they can be made naturally by stars. Researchers write in Nature that an organic substance commonly found throughout the Universe contains ...
Article - News Staff - Oct 26 2011 - 5:09pm
- Occultation Shows Eris Is The Same Size As Pluto, Just 3 Times Further From The Sun
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In November 2010, the distant dwarf planet Eris passed in front of a faint background star, an event called an occultation. Occultations provide the most accurate, and often the only, way to measure the shape and size of a distant Solar System body like E ...
Article - News Staff - Oct 26 2011 - 6:31pm
- Asteroid 2005 YU55 Will Pass Within 0.85 Lunar Distances Of Earth November 8th
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A 400 meter, C-type asteroid will pass within 0.85 lunar distances from the Earth on November 8, 2011. The attached animated illustration shows the Earth and moon flyby geometry for November 8th and 9th when the object will reach a visual brightness of ...
Article - News Staff - Oct 27 2011 - 10:18pm
- A Prayer for the NPP Satellite
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As you circle Earth from your polar-orbiting perch 512 miles above, may your daily output of 4 terabytes of data enable the Science 2.0 community to help educate the masses about climate change. Godspeed. ...
Blog Post - Bobby Knight - Oct 28 2011 - 10:11am
- Pluto Takes Back 9th Biggest Solar Object Title
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In a Nature paper published Oct. 26 by Sicardy et al from the Universite Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris, Pluto was promoted to the ninth largest body orbiting the Sun. Its evil dwarf doppelganger Eris, though very similar in size, was found to be slightly ...
Blog Post - Bobby Knight - Oct 29 2011 - 5:17pm
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