Space

Many objects in the universe emit radio waves. In 1931, American physicist Karl Jansky first detected radio static from our own Milky Way galaxy. Similar emission from other galaxies creates a background hiss of radio noise. Now a team led by Alan Kogut o ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 8 2009 - 2:49am

The twin massive spirals inside the sun

The Solar Core is simultaneously Collapsing, and Jetting. The most obvious effect of this phenomena is the Suns Invariance. ie. The Suns size, does not vary significantly. ...

Blog Post - Anonymous - Dec 20 2012 - 5:05pm

SGR 1627-41: A Stellar Zombie Comes Back To Life

XMM-Newton has caught the fading glow of a tiny celestial object, revealing its rotation rate for the first time. The new information confirms this particular object as one of an extremely rare class of stellar zombie – each one the dead heart of a star th ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 13 2009 - 11:31am

The Magnificent Mystery Of Magnetars

At 10 14 gauss, atoms are compressed into tiny needles whose widths are only 1% of their lengths. X-ray photons readily undergo an exotic process where they change into matter and anti-matter particles briefly, before rejoining and turning back into light. ...

Article - Chris Rollins - Jan 16 2009 - 12:51pm

Globular Cluster 47 Tucanae- Stellar Cannibals Lead To Blue Stragglers In Space

Researchers have discovered that the mysterious overweight stars known as blue stragglers are the result of 'stellar cannibalism', where plasma is gradually pulled from one star to another to form a massive, unusually hot star that appears younge ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 14 2009 - 1:14pm

A Window Into Life In A Bubble (In A Bubble..)

What is life is a valid question to some because they would simply like to make some. Yet others, although they don't know what it is, search for life in other planets like Mars. How do you find life if you don't know what it is? ...

Blog Post - Hatice Cullingford - Jan 15 2009 - 7:36pm

Exoplanet Detection Takes Off

In 1960, Dr. Frank Drake developed an equation that predicts the number of intelligent civilizations in our galaxy. It's a simple equation-- the number of intelligent civilizations in our galaxy is equal to the product of all the following numbers: Th ...

Article - Chris Rollins - Jan 19 2009 - 5:32pm

NGC 2818- A Nebula Within A Cluster Inside A Compass

The unique planetary nebula NGC 2818 is nested inside the open star cluster NGC 2818A. Both the cluster and the nebula reside 10,400 light-years (3.2 kiloparsecs) away, in the southern constellation Pyxis, also called the Compass. NGC 2818 is one of very ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 15 2009 - 6:48pm

Panspermia, Red Rain, and Space Bread

In an article in the International Journal of Astrobiology, P. McCafferty discusses the possibility of a red, blood-like life form living inside meteors. This conclusion raises the possibility that, in space, there are objects that contain red, blood-like ...

Blog Post - Nicholas Horton - Jan 17 2009 - 12:02pm

Detected- Thermal Emissions From Transiting Hot-Jupiter Exoplanets

Transiting exoplanets are routinely detected when they pass in front of their parent star as viewed from the Earth, which only happens by chance. The transit event causes a small drop in the observed starlight, which can then be detected. ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 18 2009 - 1:38pm