January 2010
26 posts
President Can't Cut Constellation Without... →
Urban Red Planet: Human Habitats On Mars →
ESO 137-001: Two Tails to Tell →
NASA Extends the World Wide Web Out Into Space →
Undersea Internet Cables Could Detect... →
Herschel Lives! →
Searching for Life in the Multiverse →
Tooling up ExoMars →
ESA and NASA are inviting scientists from across the world to propose instruments for their joint Mars mission, the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter. Scheduled for launch in 2016, the spacecraft will focus on understanding the rarest constituents of the martian atmosphere, including the mysterious methane that could signal life on Mars.
Ozone detection →
Researchers in Freiburg, Germany, have developed a highly-sensitive, miniaturized mobile ozone sensor which can be used not only in air, but also in water and in the vicinity of explosive gases.
NASA's ASTER Instrument Observes Haiti Quake... →
Cocaine Found In Shuttle Processing Facility →
Hubble IMAX 3-D Trailer →
Jetting into the Quark-Gluon Plasma →
After the quark-gluon plasma filled the universe for a few millionths of a second after the big bang, it was over 13 billion years until experimenters managed to recreate the extraordinarily hot, dense medium on Earth. The JET Collaboration, a team from six universities and three national laboratories led by Berkeley Lab’s Nuclear Science Division, is now developing a new and highly detailed...
Star-spots on Betelgeuse →
Betelgeuse, in the constellation Orion, is one of the brightest stars in the night sky and is the second-largest star in apparent size from our vantage point (not counting the sun, that is). Those attributes are made all the more impressive by the fact that Betelgeuse is some 650 light-years away—nowhere near cracking the list of the closest stars to our solar system.
SPACE PHOTOS THIS WEEK: Alien Dust, Zodiac Light,... →
Hubble Catches End of Star-Making Party in Nearby... →
Galaxies throughout the universe are ablaze with star birth. But for a nearby, small spiral galaxy, the star-making party is almost over. Astronomers were surprised to find that star-formation activities in the outer regions of NGC 2976 have been virtually asleep because they shut down millions of years ago. The celebration is confined to a few die-hard partygoers huddled in the galaxy’s...
The Floor of Tycho Crater →
Tycho Crater is an one of the most prominent craters on the moon. It appears as a bright spot in the southern highlands with rays of bright material that stretch across much of the nearside. Its prominence is not due to its size: at 85 km in diameter, it’s just one among thousands of this size or larger.
Giant Magnetic Loop Stretches Between Two Stars →
Maps of Earthquake and Aftershocks in Haiti →
Pulsar watchers race for gravity waves →
Latest GeoEye Satellite Imagery of Haiti... →
Galaxies So Near, Yet So Far →
Hubble Reaches the "Undiscovered Country" of... →
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has broken the distance limit for galaxies and uncovered a primordial population of compact and ultra-blue galaxies that have never been seen before. The deeper Hubble looks into space, the farther back in time it looks, because light takes billions of years to cross the observable universe. This makes Hubble a powerful “time machine” that...
NASA to Check for Unlikely Winter Survival of... →
Beginning Jan. 18, NASA’s Mars Odyssey orbiter will listen for possible, though improbable, radio transmissions from the Phoenix Mars Lander, which completed five months of studying an arctic Martian site in November 2008.
PHOTOS: "Fossil" Fireballs Found in Supernova... →
Our Solar System May Have Millions of "Twins" →