Space

Just before totality on a total lunar eclipse. Credit: Flickr/John Johnson, CC BY-NC-SA By Tanya Hill, Museum Victoria At least twice a year, Earth comes between the sun and the moon. The result is a lunar eclipse, where we see the splendid sight of Earth ...

Article - The Conversation - Oct 6 2014 - 10:53pm

My Planet from Space So Beautiful and Fragile

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Blog Post - Tomasz Nowakowski - Oct 10 2014 - 11:56pm

The Energy Of 10 Million Suns: An Impossibly Bright Dead Star

A once-in-a-century supernova, dubbed SN2014J, in a the nearby galaxy Messier 82- the Cigar Galaxy- 12 million light-years away has been spotted; a pulsating dead star beaming with the energy of about 10 million suns. The object, previously thought to be ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 9 2014 - 3:13pm

Mysterious Gamma Ray Source In V959 Mon

Gamma rays are the highest-energy form of radioactive waves known in the universe but how they're made and where they come from have been something of a mystery. Using highly detailed radio telescope images, a team of astronomers have pinpointed the ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 8 2014 - 4:30pm

Temperature And Water Vapor Mapped On Wild Exoplanet WASP-43b

A team of scientists using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to make the most detailed global map yet of the glow from a giant, oddball planet orbiting another star, an object twice as massive as Jupiter and hot enough to melt steel, called WASP-43b. WAS ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 9 2014 - 3:02pm

Dark Matter And The Milky Way: More Little Than Large

Artistic impression of the Milky Way galaxy. The blue halo of material surrounding the galaxy indicates the expected distribution of the mysterious dark matter. ESO/L. Calçada, CC BY By Geraint Lewis, University of Sydney ...

Article - The Conversation - Oct 12 2014 - 8:00am

Dark Matter May Be Half Previous Estimates

Dark matter is ill-defined and never detected so how can a group of astronomers say current measurements are off by 50 percent? Most of the matter in the universe is hidden. It's not stars, it's not planets, it's not dust. No one knows what ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 12 2014 - 6:20pm

US, Japanese Scientists Share Knowledge on Asteroid Missions

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Blog Post - Tomasz Nowakowski - Oct 12 2014 - 2:02pm

Uranus Elsewhere: Ice Giant Planet Discovered 25,000 Light Years Away

COLUMBUS, Ohio—Our view of other solar systems just got a little more familiar, with the discovery of a planet 25,000 light-years away that resembles our own Uranus. Astronomers have discovered hundreds of planets around the Milky Way, including rocky pla ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 15 2014 - 12:42pm

Hidden Star Formation Found In A Protocluster

Astronomers have used the APEX telescope to probe a huge galaxy cluster that is forming in the early Universe and revealed that much of the star formation taking place is not only hidden by dust, but also occurring in unexpected places. ...

Blog Post - Tomasz Nowakowski - Oct 16 2014 - 5:43pm