Space

April 16, 1178 BC- Homer's Odyssey Eclipse Mystery Solution May Pinpoint The Fall Of Troy

Homer's Odyssey, be it history or fiction, had one potentially true part that has fascinated readers throughout the ages- namely whether Odysseus returned home to experience a total solar eclipse. Total eclipses, when the moon briefly but completely b ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 23 2008 - 8:00pm

Voyager 2: To Infinity And Beyond

A few years ago Voyager 1 entered the final frontier, that place where the solar wind becomes denser and hotter and pressure from gas between stars causes it to slow- the Termination Shock. Now that Voyager 2 has reached its edge of the solar system, just ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jul 2 2008 - 2:53pm

Heliosphere Versus Heliopause- Hot Solar Wind Meets Cold Interstellar Space

NASA's sun-focused STEREO spacecraft unexpectedly detected particles from the edge of the solar system last year, allowing University of California, Berkeley, scientists to map for the first time the energized particles in the region where the hot sol ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 4 2008 - 8:32am

PSR J0737-3039A/B- Precessions, Pulsars And Wobbling In Space

If you're a long-time reader of this site, you might get the idea that Albert Einstein was a pretty smart guy- that comes across because he tends to proven right a lot even today. PSR J0737-3039A/B is a unique system of two dead stars, pulsars, and on ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 3 2008 - 4:17pm

The Color Of The Sun: Revelation

Continuing from the prior article... “The Sun Ain’t Yeller”, cries the heliochromologist.   Undaunted by tradition, dogma, or tens of thousands of erroneous magazine and textbook images of our Sun, heliochromology, a colorful heterodox, is winning the day ...

Article - George Cooper - Feb 7 2013 - 5:49pm

Mystery Star Cluster NGC 6791 Has Three Different Ages

Imagine having three clocks in your house, each chiming at a different time. Astronomers have found the equivalent of three out-of-sync "clocks" in the ancient open star cluster NGC 6791. The dilemma may fundamentally challenge the way astronomer ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 12 2008 - 8:15pm

Quasar Accretion Disks 'Viewed' Using Polarizing Filter

For the first time, a team of international researchers has found a way to view the accretion disks surrounding black holes and verify that their true electromagnetic spectra match what astronomers have long predicted they would be. A black hole and its br ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 23 2008 - 3:51pm

Hubble Spies Stars That Existed When The Universe Was Only 700 Million Years Old

By using the gravitational magnification from six massive lensing galaxy clusters, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has provided scientists with the largest sample of very distant galaxies seen to date. Some of the newly found magnified objects are dim ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 24 2008 - 11:17am

V1280 Scorpii: Stellar Vampires Get A Long Look

Using ESO's Very Large Telescope Interferometer, astronomers were able to witness for the first time the appearance of a shell of dusty gas around a star that had just erupted and follow its evolution for more than 100 days. This provided the astronom ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 24 2008 - 1:16pm

Northern Lights Mystery Gets Solved

Themis was the blindfolded Greek goddess of order and justice. It's also a NASA-funded mission which stands for Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms- and, using it, UCLA space scientists and colleagues have identified th ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 24 2008 - 5:58pm