Space

Mysterious New Aurora Discovered On Saturn

An infrared camera aboard NASA's Cassini spacecraft has discovered a unique aurora lighting up Saturn's polar cap. The mysterious new aurora is unlike any other known in our solar system. "We've never seen an aurora like this elsewhere, ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 12 2008 - 1:24pm

Planet Hunting- Hubble Takes A Look At Fomalhaut B

Estimated to be no more than three times Jupiter's mass, the planet, called Fomalhaut b, orbits the bright southern star Fomalhaut, located 25 light-years away in the constellation Piscis Austrinus (the Southern Fish).  Fomalhaut has been a candidate ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 13 2008 - 5:22pm

HR 8799- First Images Of Newly-Discovered Multi-Planet Solar System

Astronomers have taken snapshots of a multi-planet solar system much like ours orbiting another star, for the first time. The new solar system orbits a dusty young star named HR 8799, which is 140 light years away and about 1.5 times the size of our sun. T ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 8 2010 - 5:13pm

Human Rights in Space

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) celebrates its 60th anniversary this year. As part of the commemoration of this event, the space shuttle Endeavour brought a version of it up to the International Space Station 15th November 2008. Credit: NA ...

Blog Post - Bente Lilja Bye - Nov 16 2008 - 8:38pm

Detected- Matter Shredded By Sagittarius A* Black Hole

The team of European and US astronomers used ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) and the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) telescope, both in Chile, to study light from Sagittarius A* at near-infrared wavelengths and the longer submillimetre wavelengt ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 18 2008 - 11:07am

New beachfront property, comes with friendly little green men as neighbors

Move over, Malibu- ancient Mars may take the solar system's top beachfront destination prize. It possibly had not just one ocean, but two! An older, wiser ocean, surrounding a younger version that probably knew everything about marine life and just wa ...

Blog Post - Becky Jungbauer - Nov 18 2008 - 1:45pm

M84 Shows Galaxies Are Dancing- And Black Holes Provide The Rhythm

The powerful black holes at the center of massive galaxies and galaxy clusters act as hearts to the systems, pumping energy out at regular intervals to regulate the growth of the black holes themselves, as well as star formation, according to new data from ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 18 2008 - 7:41pm

Way too many jokes to even bother with a clever title

This is why women should just stay in the kitchen and leave the real work to the men. (I'm still bitter about being told in 1997 by a construction foreman that I hammer like a girl.) ...

Blog Post - Becky Jungbauer - Nov 18 2008 - 8:42pm

V458 Vulpeculae- A Binary Star Explosion Inside A Nebula

The explosion of a binary star inside a planetary nebula has been captured by a team of researchers – an event that has not been witnessed for more than 100 years. The study, published in Astrophysical Journal Letters, predicts that the combined mass of th ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 19 2008 - 12:52pm

National Lampoon's Vacation: Jupiter edition

I envision a Walley World outpost on Venus, or perhaps the next passing comet...what, you have a better idea? Then send it to NASA. The space agency announced an opportunity for PI-led space investigations for its New Frontier program. One of NASA's s ...

Blog Post - Becky Jungbauer - Nov 20 2008 - 11:04am