Space

Sun Unleashes Its 6th Flare In Three Weeks

The sun emitted its sixth significant flare since Oct. 23, 2013, peaking at 11:26 p.m. EST on Nov. 7, 2013. Solar flares are powerful bursts of radiation- the radiation from a flare can't pass through Earth's atmosphere to affect us but, when in ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 9 2013 - 11:30am

SN 2013ek: Another Stellar Explosion In NGC 6984

Supernovae, those intensely bright objects formed when a star reaches the end of its life, 'start' with a big, expelling most of their material out into space, and it's always interesting when we see it. Spiral galaxy NGC 6984 played host t ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 10 2013 - 8:30am

Watch Out For Your Head- Satellite Fall

A 1.1 metric Ton satellite will re-enter the earth's atmosphere in the next 48 hours, fragmenting into smaller pieces as it falls. The exact location of the fall is unknown, so you better watch out... Or not. I was discussing this event with my daught ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Nov 9 2013 - 5:07am

Germans: 'We've Found Second Solar System'

Germans: ‘We’ve found second solar system’ This sounds like something from a science fiction comic when I was young, back in the days when Dan Dare was with Spacefleet, which was effectively the RAF in Space before the Russians and Americans took over. Ho ...

Article - Robert H Olley - Nov 11 2013 - 3:57pm

What's In Those Mysterious Black Hole Jets?

An international team say they know what is inside the enigmatic jets emitted by black holes. Jets are narrow beams of matter spat out at high speed from near a central object, like a black hole. ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 13 2013 - 6:40pm

Messier 15, You Old Mysterious Cluster

Messier 15 is a gathering of  100,000 very old stars that orbits the center of the Milky Way. It is one of the densest globular clusters known, with most of its mass concentrated at its core.  It could also hide a rare type of black hole or a collection o ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 17 2013 - 5:30am

4.4 Billion-Year-Old Meteorite And The Birth Of Mars

A research team has uncovered what may be the first recognized example of ancient Martian crust. ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 20 2013 - 3:06pm

How Fast Does Moon Dust Pile Up? Now We Know

When Neil Armstrong took his first step for all mankind in 1969, researchers obviously had no idea how much of a nuisance the lunar soil beneath his feet would be. The scratchy dust clung to everything it touched, causing scientific instruments to overhea ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 21 2013 - 8:51am

Sagittarius A* Black Hole: Evidence Of Jet Confirmed

Astronomers have found strong evidence that Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, is producing a jet of high-energy particles. ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 20 2013 - 4:44pm

GRB 130427A: Brightest Ever Gamma-Ray Burst Is A 'Nearby Ordinary Monster'

Astronomers from around the world have used data from satellites and observatories to explain the brightest Gamma-ray Burst (GRB) ever recorded. An unusually bright GRB, now deemed GRB 130427A, was observed on April 27th 2013 by the Swift satellite and wa ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 22 2013 - 9:59am