Space

Jupiter Now Has 69 Moons 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 22, 2017
Our local gas giant has two more natural satellites added to its roster

By David Aragorn
Hubble Captures Massive Dead Disk Galaxy that Challenges Theories of Galaxy Evolution 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 22, 2017
By combining the power of a “natural lens” in space with the capability of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers made a surprising discovery—the first example of a compact yet massive, fast-spinning, disk-shaped galaxy that stopped making stars only a few billion years after the big bang.

By David Aragorn
Op-ed | Mars mania is completely rational 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 21, 2017
In April, NASA’s robotic probe Cassini attracted widespread media coverage as it neared the end of its expedition of Saturn and its moons. While NASA celebrates the remarkable success of Cassini, it is hard not to look towards the future and ask, ‘what’s next?’

By David Aragorn
The largest virtual universe ever simulated 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 21, 2017
Researchers from the University of Zurich have simulated the formation of our entire universe with a large supercomputer.

By David Aragorn
SETI scientists argue “Wow! Signal” still unidentified despite new report 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 21, 2017
In 1977, scientists working on the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) recorded an unusually strong radio signal, the origin of which many scientists believe has not been explained. While the most exotic theory is that the signal is a call from ET, a paper published in the Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences claims the origins of the signal is much more mundane. They think a comet or two caused it. SETI scientists, including the senior astronomer at the SETI Institute, Seth Shostak, and the man who discovered the signal, disagree.

By David Aragorn
NASA found a bunch more potentially habitable planets 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 20, 2017
But our days of massive exoplanet dumps may be numbered.

By David Aragorn
Light wormholes could wire space invisibly 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 20, 2017
Invisible channels offer optical collusion.

By David Aragorn
Radio astronomers peer deep into the stellar nursery of the Orion Nebula 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 20, 2017
Astronomers have released an image of a vast filament of star-forming gas, 1200 light-years away, in the stellar nursery of the Orion Nebula.

By David Aragorn
Chinese satellite beats distance record for quantum entanglement 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 19, 2017
Quantum satellite Micius has sent entangled photons to ground stations on Earth

By David Aragorn
Astronomers see mysterious nitrogen area in a butterfly-shaped star formation disk 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 17, 2017
An international team of astronomers, led by Dutch scientists, has discovered a region in our Milky Way that contains many nitrogen compounds in the southeast of a butterfly-shaped star formation disk and very little in the north-west.

By David Aragorn