Space

The Blood Moon Is Coming- Get Ready To Open That Sixth Seal

When he opened the sixth seal, I looked, and behold, there was a great earthquake, and the sun became black as sackcloth, the full moon became like blood, and the stars of the sky fell to the earth- Revelation 6:12-14 We've only had a few doomsday ev ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Apr 14 2014 - 5:59pm

Clouds Seen Circling The Drain Around Supermassive Black Holes

Evidence collected over a period of 16 years by NASA's Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer, a satellite in low-earth orbit equipped with instruments that measured variations in X-ray sources, has led to a paper in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 6 2014 - 8:49pm

BOSS Quasars Provide Most Precise Measurement Yet Of Expanding Universe

The Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey  - BOSS- is the largest component of the third Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-III) and pioneered the use of quasars to map density variations in intergalactic gas at high redshifts, tracing the structure of the ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 7 2014 - 1:46pm

The Mystery Of The Hexagon On Saturn's North Pole

An unusual hexagonal shape surrounding Saturn's north pole was spotted on the planet for the first time thirty years ago and nothing similar, with such a regular geometry, has been found on any other (non-Earth, obviously) planet in the Solar System.  ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 8 2014 - 11:52am

LRO Mission (And North America) To Experience Total Lunar Eclipse April 15th

This week we get Mars in opposition and a bright red planet, but next week is a treat for space enthusiasts also. In the early morning hours of April 15th, north Americans can expect the moon to look a little different. A total lunar eclipse is expected a ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 9 2014 - 1:13am

Abell 33 And HD 83535: A Long-Distance Engagement

Most stars with masses similar to that of our Sun will end their lives as white dwarfs; small, very dense, and hot bodies that slowly cool down over billions of years. On the way to this final phase of their lives the stars throw their atmospheres out int ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 9 2014 - 9:22am

Parallax Geometry Extreme: How Our Galaxy Measurements Just Got 10X More Accurate

The universe is big, as you can imagine. Even our galaxy is almost beyond comprehension. But measure it we do, at least as best we can. The most reliable method for making astronomical distance measurements is to use geometry- the 186-million-mile diameter ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 10 2014 - 10:41am

Welcome Peggy: Saturn's Newest Moon?

A small icy object within the rings of Saturn may be a new moon, according to interpretation of images taken with Cassini's narrow angle camera on April 15, 2013 which show disturbances at the very edge of Saturn's A ring-- the outermost of the p ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 15 2014 - 11:00am

No Escape From Problems in Space Colonies- Earth is Des Res- Even After Nuclear War or Asteroid Impact

Most of us don't give much thought to the idea of escaping our problems on Earth by going into space. But those who want to colonize Mars often see it as an urgent need for humanity, to have a potential "second home" as they see it. It' ...

Blog Post - Robert Walker - Jun 4 2014 - 11:12am

Kepler-186f: An Earth-Sized Planet In A Habitable Zone

Astronomers using NASA's Kepler Space Telescope report discovery of the first Earth-size planet orbiting a star in the "habitable zone"-- the range of distance from a star where liquid water might pool on the surface of an orbiting planet. ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 17 2014 - 2:58pm