Space
- How To Distinguish Venus-Like Planets From Possible Earths
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Venus is uninhabitable for humans yet from a distance, using statistical wobbles, a Venus-like planet and an Earth-like planet are very similar. While the Earth has oceans of water and relatively moderate temperatures, Venus has no liquid water and exists ...
Article - News Staff - Sep 11 2014 - 10:23am
- 'Hot Jupiters' So Massive They Make Their Own Suns Wobble
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“Hot Jupiters” are the term for large, gaseous exoplanets in other solar systems and a new study finds they make their suns wobble as they make their way through their orbit. Jupiters are a nice designation for a metric because it has a mass 1/1000th of t ...
Article - News Staff - Sep 15 2014 - 12:00pm
- Tonight the Northern Lights may be visible possibly as far south as Maryland.
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Tonight due to powerful X-class solar flares earlier this week we may get to see the Aurora Borealis at latitudes where it usually is not visible. The Northern Lights are the result of charged particles from the Sun interacting with Earth's magneti ...
Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Sep 13 2014 - 7:27pm
- Human Moon Colony: Boldly Grow Where No Man Has Grown Before
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Researchers planted 4,200 seeds in soils expected to mimic those in potential greenhouses on Mars and on the moon. Courtesy of Wieger Wamelink http://on.fb.me/1rYkF8p By Patricia Waldron, Inside Science (Inside Science)-- Any explorers visiting Mars and t ...
Article - Inside Science - Sep 15 2014 - 11:31am
- Research Reveals Moon's Violent Volcanic Past
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Blog Post - Tomasz Nowakowski - Sep 16 2014 - 3:51am
- M60-UCD1: Tiny Galaxy, Supermassive Black Hole
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An ultracompact dwarf galaxy known as M60-UCD1 harbors a supermassive black hole – the smallest galaxy known to contain such a massive light-sucking object. The astronomers used the Gemini North 8-meter optical-and-infrared telescope on Hawaii's Maun ...
Article - News Staff - Sep 18 2014 - 10:11am
- Miranda: Icy Moon Of Uranus Also Deformed By Tidal Heating
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Miranda is a small, icy moon of Uranus and one of the most visually striking and enigmatic bodies in the solar system. Despite its relatively small size, Miranda appears to have experienced an episode of intense resurfacing that resulted in the formation ...
Article - News Staff - Sep 18 2014 - 4:49pm
- BICEP2's vision wasn't that strong, Planck says their window was too dusty.
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It seems that foreground galactic dust could be responsible for all of the signal observed by the BICEP2 team. Two more shoes are waiting to drop. Results of cross correlation and comparison of Planck data and BICEP2 data in the region BICEP2 was able to ...
Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Sep 23 2014 - 8:11am
- Evidence Of Gravity Waves Clouded By Interstellar Dust
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Planck telescope and the Cosmic microwave background. ESA and Planck, CC BY By Robert Crittenden, University of Portsmouth ...
Article - The Conversation - Sep 23 2014 - 7:00pm
- HAT-P-11b: Smallest Exoplanet With Water Vapor Found
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Astronomers have discovered clear skies and steamy water vapor on a planet known as HAT-P-11b- outside our solar system. HAT-P-11b is about the size of Neptune, making it the smallest exoplanet ever on which water vapor has been detected. HAT-P-11b is a s ...
Article - News Staff - Sep 24 2014 - 12:14pm
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