Space
- Recipe For A New Earth: One Cup Silicon, 1/4 Tsp Sulfur, Dash Of Asteroid Water...
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How might you make a new Earth? Our Terran "test kitchen" has given us a detailed recipe, it just wasn't clear how transposable it was in other areas, the same way a recipe in Los Angeles might not work as well in Denver. Now, astronomers ha ...
Article - News Staff - Jan 5 2015 - 6:38pm
- What Makes One Alternate Earth More Habitable Than Another?
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Article - The Conversation - Jan 6 2015 - 11:00pm
- Why Did All Those Stars Disappear?
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In a new ESO image of LDN 483 and its surroundings, located about 700 light-years away in the constellation of Serpens (The Serpent), some of the stars are missing. But it's not a portent of doom, it's space pollution- gas and dust are obscuring ...
Article - News Staff - Jan 7 2015 - 2:45pm
- Space-Time Warp Measured In J1906- Then The Neutron Star Disappeared
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In an interstellar race against time, astronomers measured the space-time warp in the gravity of a binary star and determined the mass of a neutron star just before it vanished from view. The researchers measured the masses of both stars in binary pulsar s ...
Article - News Staff - Jan 8 2015 - 2:45pm
- Andromeda Is The Violent Bad Boy Of Our Local Group
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By studying the motions of different stellar populations in the disk of the Andromeda galaxy, researchers have deduced that Andromeda has had a more violent past than our Milky Way. The structure and internal motions of the stellar disk of a spiral galaxy ...
Article - News Staff - Jan 8 2015 - 6:33pm
- Dance of the Planets
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Yesterday (8th) I took this photograph of Venus and Mercury from the grounds of Reading University. In the photograph, Mercury is about two moon-breadths down and to the right of Venus. Over the next two days Mercury will follow the arrow relative to th ...
Blog Post - Robert H Olley - Jan 9 2015 - 12:21pm
- NASA’s Juno Spacecraft on Its Way to Unveil Jupiter’s Mysteries
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Blog Post - Tomasz Nowakowski - Jan 9 2015 - 5:10pm
- Watch Comet Lovejoy Tonight
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A comet is a magical sight in the heavens. Comets visible to the naked eye are a uncommon event, and sometimes they put up very suggestive shows in our skies. Those of us who have witnessed the apparition of a bright comet do not forget that experience eas ...
Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jan 10 2015 - 5:50am
- Space Debris Expert Warns About Dangers of Orbital Junk
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Blog Post - Tomasz Nowakowski - Jan 12 2015 - 1:01pm
- The US section of the International Space Station Has Been Evacuated.
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According to Roscosmos an ammonia leak in the US section of the International Space Station has necessitated the evacuation of that section of the station. From what I have read this diagram depicts where the no-go zone is. Image courtesy of the Russian ...
Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Jan 15 2015 - 8:50am