Space

Found: 54 Potentially Habitable New Planets

New papers in arXiv show that the Kepler space telescope continues to fulfill its mission of searching for exoplanets, especially those in the 'habitable' zone, a region where liquid water could exist on a planet's surface, around stars. ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 3 2011 - 2:49pm

Cosmic Embryo #3: The ART Of 3D Sun And Breast Cancer Imaging

Cosmic Embryo #3: The ART of 3D Sun and Breast Cancer Imaging NASA Releasing First Views of the Entire Sun on Super Sun-Day [February 6, 2011] http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2011/feb/HQ_M11-025_STEREO.html ...

Article - Richard (Dick) Go... - Feb 8 2011 - 11:33pm

STEREO Brings Us The Sun In 3-D

Two STEREO spacecraft are now 180 degrees apart from each other and providing scientists with a 360-degree view of the Sun. NASA's STEREO (Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory) spacecraft were launched on October 25, 2006, and have been gathering i ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 8 2011 - 5:40pm

Arp 147 And Valentine's Day Black Holes

Since Valentine's Day is approaching, it's a good time to combine X-rays from the NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory (pink) and optical data from the Hubble Space Telescope (red, green, blue) produced by the Space Telescope Science Institute ( ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 11 2011 - 6:09pm

Black Holes May Be Younger Than They Look

Super-massive black holes in the universe vary in mass from about one million to 10 billion times the size of our sun, and they're continuing to grow. Now astronomers from Tel Aviv University say that the era of the "first fast growth" of t ...

Blog Post - Alex "Sandy" Antunes - Feb 13 2011 - 10:14am

Will NASA Feel The Love Tonight?

Around the pink- and red-hued madness of overpriced flowers and heart-shaped everything that is Valentine's Day, even a rocket man 1 needs a little love. 2 Unfortunately for NASA, the Stardust spacecraft beamed down an unexpected photo of its intended ...

Article - Becky Jungbauer - Feb 15 2011 - 12:03pm

Flattery?

A music project has cropped up that is very much like Project Calliope, if you swap out 'one man show' and replace it with 'crowdsourced'.  The core concept is Calliope's "convert space to music via detectors and send to groun ...

Blog Post - Project Calliope - Feb 22 2011 - 8:48pm

Cassiopeia A- Superfluid Found In Neutron Star's Core

Supernova remnant Cassiopeia A (Cas A) is the remains of a massive star 11,000 light years away that would have appeared to explode about 330 years ago as observed from Earth. Neutron stars like Cas A contain the densest known matter that is directly obser ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 23 2011 - 4:33pm

Solar cells are fragile

Greetings, true believers. I've not let a week pass yet without some tidbit of amateur satellite relevance, and this week is no exception.  Being pleasantly mired in work-work, I'll be necessarily brief with this update. I broke my first solar ce ...

Blog Post - Project Calliope - Mar 1 2011 - 10:23pm

Solved- The Mystery Of Missing Sunspots

Sunspots are dark spots on the sun, at least as we see them, caused by magnetic activity in the plasma on the surface of Sol. For 200 years scientists have known that they occasional disappear but no one was sure exactly why.   A trio writing in Nature say ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 3 2011 - 3:36pm