Space
- Astronomers Peer Into The 'Amniotic Sac' Of A Planet-Birthing Star
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Astronomers have successfully peered through the 'amniotic sac' of a star that is still forming to observe the innermost region of a burgeoning solar system for the first time. In a research paper published today in the journal Monthly Notices o ...
Article - News Staff - Sep 18 2015 - 12:12pm
- September 24th, 2015- Just Another Day In Space- Asteroid Flybys, "Blood Moons" And Armageddon Demystified
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Is anything going to happen on September 24th? Well, the astronomers say, no. It is an ordinary day in space, nothing remarkable of note at all on that day by way of asteroid flybys. Yes, it's true, as some news stories say, there is a distant flyby ...
Article - Robert Walker - Aug 11 2017 - 5:17pm
- Giant Asteroid Headed Your Way?- How We Can Detect And Deflect Them
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We get many sensational news stories, saying a giant asteroid will hit Earth, or will nearly miss us. Several so far this year. Many of us worry about these things. So what is the truth behind them? Actually astronomers have this well in hand for the larg ...
Article - Robert Walker - Apr 6 2016 - 3:16pm
- NASA Says Mars Mystery Solved- What Is It?- Three Mysteries About Recursive Slope Lineae
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The internet is buzzing with the announcement from NASA that they are going to announce the solution of a longstanding Mars mystery on Monday. at 11.30 am EST. That's 4.30 pm BST. Then, as many of the news stories have pointed out, the list of speake ...
Article - Robert Walker - Sep 28 2015 - 6:45pm
- India's Mars Orbiter Spacecraft- Results Of First Year Of Methane Search- Not Yet Announced
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T he Indian ISRO space agency was going to announce the result of their first year of observations in Mars orbit- the Indian Times said- on Thursday. But it didn't happen- seems it has been delayed! I look forward to hearing what they found- but see ...
Article - Robert Walker - Sep 27 2015 - 5:19pm
- And The NASA Mars Mystery Is...
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Jim Green, director of planetary science at NASA Headquarters, Michael Meyer, lead scientist for the Mars Exploration Program at NASA Headquarters, Lujendra Ojha of the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Mary Beth Wilhelm of NASA’s Ames Research ...
Article - News Staff - Sep 28 2015 - 10:15am
- Mars: and the Adage Where There is Water There Is Life.
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NASA has announced that there is flowing liquid water on Mars. Where there is water there is life. That is an old adage among astrobiologist. We “follow the water”. Water had lead us to be hopeful that on icy bodies such as the icy moons of Jupiter, S ...
Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Sep 28 2015 - 1:23pm
- Why Are Hydrated Salts A Slam Dunk Case For Flowing Water On Mars? And What Next?
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Now we know, it's the second of those "Three mysteries " which they solved- by detection of water in the RSLs. However, they didn't directly detect flowing water. Instead, they found hydrated salts. So let's look at this a bit m ...
Article - Robert Walker - Feb 4 2017 - 9:46am
- 2015 — a Space Oddment
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During the morning of last Monday (28th September) in Europe and Africa, or the evening of the 27th in the Americas, we were treated to the spectacle of a total eclipse of the Moon, a so-called ‘supermoon’ because the Moon appeared a little larger than usu ...
Blog Post - Robert H Olley - Sep 30 2015 - 3:02am
- Peeking Into Our Galaxy's Stellar Nursery
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Astronomers have long turned their telescopes, be they on satellites in space or observatories on Earth, to the wide swaths of interstellar medium to get a look at the formation and birth of stars. However, the images produced over the last 50 years look ...
Article - News Staff - Oct 9 2015 - 7:00am