Space

Hubble Reveals New Evidence For Accelerated Cosmic Expansion

An international team of astronomers has confirmed that the expansion of the universe is accelerating after looking at new data from the largest-ever survey conducted by the Hubble Space Telescope. The results of the research will appear in Astronomy and A ...

Article - News Staff - May 31 2011 - 12:27am

A New Gamma-Ray Source In Perseus!

I received news on a brand new discovery by the MAGIC collaboration today, and I wish to inform you about it. Here follows the communication from Mose' Mariotti on behalf of the MAGIC team: The MAGIC Collaboration reports the discovery of VHE (E >1 ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Mar 25 2010 - 3:36pm

The Amazing Cataclysmic Variables

Marco Silva (right) is an amateur astronomer since the 1997 Hale-Bopp comet passage. He is also an amateur scientist. His studies can be found in his web site. When I knew of his interesting measurements of cataclysmic variable stars, I invited him to wri ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Mar 29 2010 - 11:21pm

Labor Pains

How much is my labor on the Project Calliope satellite costing me? Accounts range from 'zero' to $14,400, to $65,000. That's the difference between what I'm being paid to do it for, what I'm losing, and what I could potentially be ...

Article - Project Calliope - Mar 30 2010 - 8:25am

New Map Of Saturn's Moon Reveals 80s Pop Culture Icons

A new high resolution temperature map and images of Saturn's moon Mimas have revealed surprising patterns on the surface of the small moon, including unexpected hot regions that resemble "Pac-Man" eating a dot, and striking bands of light an ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 8 2010 - 7:06pm

A Mirror-Like View Of Supernova Remnant Cas A

Our telescopes show the Milky Way galaxy only as it appears from one vantage point: our solar system. B using a simple but powerful technique, astronomers have seen an exploding star or supernova from new several angles. The supernova left behind the gaseo ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 8 2010 - 7:06pm

Fermi Maps Cen A's Gas Plumes

If our eyes could see radio waves, the nearby galaxy Centaurus A (Cen A) would be one of the biggest and brightest objects in the sky, nearly 20 times the apparent size of a full moon. What we can't see when looking at the galaxy in visible light is t ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 8 2010 - 7:06pm

Anti-Spacejunk-Satellite

In the midst of ordering PCB boards for my satellite, I read about a neat UK "CubeSail" satellite.  It's a sweeper for space, to clear out all the space junk that we're cluttering low earth orbit with.  It's basically a solar sail ...

Article - Project Calliope - Apr 6 2010 - 1:29pm

Our Universe At Home Within Larger Universe, Physicist Says

Our universe could be located within the interior of a wormhole which itself is part of a black hole that lies within a much larger universe, according to a new paper published in Physics Letters B. In the paper, Indiana University theoretical physicist Ni ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 6 2010 - 3:54pm

Astronomers Take A Second Look At Triton's Atmosphere

Using the CRIRES instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope, a team of astronomers have confirmed that summer is in full swing in the southern hemisphere of Neptune's largest moon Triton. "We have found real evidence that the Sun still makes its pr ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 8 2010 - 7:06pm