Space

Giant ‘thread’ of radio emissions found linking galaxy clusters 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 8, 2019
Scientists predicted that our universe’s structure resembles a huge web. We’ve finally seen one of the strands.

By David Aragorn
NASA’s first SpaceX astronauts ready for ‘messy camping trip’ to space 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 7, 2019
The first U.S. astronauts chosen to fly aboard a SpaceX capsule built for NASA shrugged off a spate of design and test mishaps, saying such setbacks were “part of the process” and the new technology was far more advanced than the space shuttle program that ended eight years ago.

By David Aragorn
Astronomers Warn About Possible Lethal Meteor Shower in June 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 7, 2019
Astronomers recently speculated that the Beta Taurids meteor shower that’s expected to happen this month could lead to catastrophic and fatal events on Earth. They theorized that the same event that caused the Tunguska disaster in 1908 might happen again soon.

By David Aragorn
NASA’s surprise Australian location pick for world-first rocket launch 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 6, 2019
The world’s biggest space agency, NASA, has chosen a tiny and remote location in Australia for a world-first rocket launch.

By David Aragorn
Exomoons may be home to extra-terrestrial life 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 6, 2019
Moons orbiting planets outside our solar system could offer another clue about the pool of worlds that may be home to extra-terrestrial life, according to an astrophysicist at the University of Lincoln.

By David Aragorn
Hyperactive Comets Contain ‘Ocean-Like’ Water 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 6, 2019
NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) observed the hyperactive Jupiter-family comet 46P/Wirtanen as it made its closest approach to Earth in December 2018. Now the latest analysis of SOFIA’s data reveals that water in hyperactive comets may share a common origin with Earth’s oceans, reinforcing the idea that comets played a key role in bringing water to our planet billions of years ago.

By David Aragorn
The accretion disk around our galaxy’s black hole has been spotted at last 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 5, 2019
The finding confirms that gases are orbiting the Milky Way’s gravitational behemoth

By David Aragorn
ESA Draws Up Plans to Bring Back a Sample From Mars 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 5, 2019
NASA isn’t the only space agency with a hunger for the Red Planet. The European Space Agency would also like to snatch samples from Mars, and now they’re making their own plans for a mission that will bring back priceless pieces of our neighboring planet.

By David Aragorn
Solving the sun’s super-heating mystery with Parker Solar Probe 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 5, 2019
It’s one of the greatest and longest-running mysteries surrounding, quite literally, our sun — why is its outer atmosphere hotter than its fiery surface?

By David Aragorn
‘Fettuccine’ may be most obvious sign of life on Mars, researchers report 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 1, 2019
A rover scanning the surface of Mars for evidence of life might want to check for rocks that look like pasta, researchers report in the journal Astrobiology.

By David Aragorn