Space

Where Does Space Begin? The Answer Is...

Where does space begin? Scientists at the University of Calgary have created a new instrument that is able to track the transition between the relatively gentle winds of Earth's atmosphere and the more violent flows of charged particles in space – flo ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 9 2009 - 1:35pm

Secrets In The L4/L5 Gravity Wells

The NASA STEREO mission (my mission!) is visiting L4 and L5. These are the Lagrange points are where the Earth and Sun gravitationally balance each other out.  SOHO hangs out at L1, between Earth and Sun (but very near Earth).  L4 and L5 are about 60 degr ...

Article - Alex "Sandy" Antunes - Apr 12 2009 - 12:16am

Massive Galaxies Rethink- Hypothesis Says 15 Are Cosmologically Much Younger Than Believed

A research team say they have found a sample of massive galaxies with properties that suggest that they may have formed relatively recently, which runs counter to the widely-held belief that massive, luminous galaxies (like our own Milky Way) began their f ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 10 2009 - 12:46pm

'Frist' STEREO Results

Given my title, I believe this is my first official rant. NASA ran a press conference on STEREO today. As the First 3D Reconstruction of a CME, it... okay, let me pause here. There have been 3D reconstructions of CMEs since the SOHO era. And there are at l ...

Blog Post - Alex "Sandy" Antunes - Apr 14 2009 - 1:25pm

Coronal Mass Ejections And A 3-D View Of A Solar Storm

Twin NASA spacecraft have provided scientists with a view of the speed, trajectory, and three-dimensional shape of powerful explosions from the sun known as coronal mass ejections, or CMEs. This new capability will dramatically enhance scientists' abi ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 14 2009 - 7:41pm

A banner worth a thousand words

If you happened to visit this site earlier today, you may have found it devoid of a suitable banner. That is because I took some time pondering on that design detail for this new site. I wanted something that resembled the banner of the old site which host ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Apr 15 2009 - 4:04pm

Triple Merger Of Four Galaxy Clusters Is A Special Sort Of Awesome

The most crowded collision of galaxy clusters has been identified by combining information from three different telescopes. This result gives scientists a chance to learn what happens when some of the largest objects in the Universe go at each other in a c ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 16 2009 - 11:19am

Kepler Hunter Team Z Go!

Kepler has First Light. It is On! Team is a Go! Photons are Arriving! This provocativly-titled NASA release states "NASA's Kepler Captures First Views of Planet-Hunting Territory", and has a good explanation of Kepler's capabilities. W ...

Article - Alex "Sandy" Antunes - Apr 19 2009 - 11:49am

HARPS-NEF TO Give Kepler A Boost In Finding New Earths

Astronomers have announced plans to build an ultra-stable, high-precision spectrograph for the Science and Technology Facilities Council's 4.2-m William Herschel Telescope (WHT- part of the Isaac Newton Group or ING on La Palma) in an effort to discov ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 19 2009 - 9:11pm

Spitzer Spies Spent Solar Systems Around Dead Suns

Using NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, an international team of astronomers have found that at least 1 in 100 white dwarf stars show evidence of orbiting asteroids and rocky planets, suggesting these objects once hosted Solar Systems similar to our own. Tea ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 19 2009 - 9:11pm