Space

Celestial Butterfly L2 Puppis Emerges From Its Dusty Cocoon

The ESO's Very Large Telescope has revealed what appears to be an aging star giving birth to a butterfly-like planetary nebula. These observations of the red giant star L2 Puppis, from the ZIMPOL mode of the newly installed SPHERE instrument, also cl ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 10 2015 - 1:30pm

Flags On The Moon- Like A Space Exploration Olympics- And Olympics Style World Flag

If an extraterrestrial race- or indeed later civilization on the Earth looks at the relics of our space explorations- one thing they might notice is our fondness for placing flags and pennants in space. All the space faring nations have signed the Outer S ...

Article - Robert Walker - Aug 24 2015 - 1:34pm

Active Volcanoes On Venus

An international team of scientists has found some of the best evidence yet that Venus, Earth's nearest neighbor, is volcanically active. In combing through data from the European Space Agency's Venus Express mission, the scientists found transi ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 23 2015 - 5:47am

As Philae Awakes- Where Might Life Hide In Our Solar System?

Now that Philae has woken up, we may be on the brink of major steps forward in our understanding of comets.  We already know that perhaps as much as 30% of a comet consists of dust and organics. Now we'll be able to look at this close up. Why, though ...

Article - Robert Walker - Nov 29 2016 - 3:30pm

Seeing Jupiter In Daylight

Have you ever seen Venus in full daylight? It's a fun experience. Of course we are accustomed to see even a small crescent Moon in daylight-it is large and although of the same colour of clouds, it cannot be missed in a clear sky. But Venus is a small ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jun 21 2015 - 4:07pm

Exposed Water Ice Detected On Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

Using ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft, scientists have identified more than a hundred patches of water ice a few meters in size on the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Rosetta arrived at the comet in August 2014 at a distance of about 100 kilometers an ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 24 2015 - 8:47am

See The Atmosphere Being Stripped From A Neptune-sized Exoplanet

An immense cloud of hydrogen has been observed dispersing from the warm, Neptune-sized planet Gliese 436b orbiting nearby star Gliese 436.  The enormous gaseous tail of the planet is about 50 times the size of the parent star.  A phenomenon this large has ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 24 2015 - 12:49pm

New Mars Colony Mission To Be Crowdfunded

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Article - Tomasz Nowakowski - Jun 24 2015 - 6:35pm

Jupiter And Venus Conjunction

We have already had a view from the Mediterranean of Jupiter, Venus and the Moon in Seeing Jupiter In Daylight.  Jupiter and Venus are getting closer together in the sky, and on the 1st of July, at around 8:00 UTC, actual conjunction will occur, when the ...

Article - Robert H Olley - Jun 25 2015 - 9:34am

Giant Galaxy Messier 87 Is Still Growing

Astronomers expect that galaxies grow by swallowing smaller galaxies. But the evidence is usually not easy to see-- just as the remains of the water thrown from a glass into a pond will quickly merge with the pond water, the stars in the infalling galaxy ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 25 2015 - 8:30am