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Pluto’s icy heart makes winds blow 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 5, 2020
A “beating heart” of frozen nitrogen controls Pluto’s winds and may give rise to features on its surface, according to a new study.

By David Aragorn
Exploding meteor captured on doorbell camera 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 4, 2020
Doorbell cameras seem to be everywhere these days and this has resulted in all manner of unusual “blink and you’ll miss it” incidents being caught on film that would have otherwise gone unseen.

By David Aragorn
When did the universe ‘wake up’?0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 4, 2020
It was a big moment for our cosmos when the first stars awoke, but it’s an elusive one for scientists.

By David Aragorn
Voyager 2 Went Into Fault Protection Mode, But Engineers Brought it Back Online 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 4, 2020
NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft went into fault protection mode on Tuesday January 28th. The fault protection routines automatically protect the spacecraft in harmful conditions. Both Voyagers have these routines programmed into their systems.

By David Aragorn
Looking for Life Beyond Earth: The Search for Habitable Exoplanets 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 4, 2020
The search for potentially-habitable planets has heated up in recent years, and it’s only going to get hotter as the decade unfolds!

By David Aragorn
Astronomers Observe a Star Dragging Space-Time With It in a Cosmic Stellar Dance 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 1, 2020
Einstein’s theory of relativity has been proven right once again.

By David Aragorn
Two dead satellites nearly collided in space on Wednesday night 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 1, 2020
Thursday, January 30th 2020, 9:45 am – This near-miss highlights the worries about Kessler Syndrome and the future safety of spacecraft and space travel

By David Aragorn
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA FIREBALL 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 31, 2020
Last night, Jan. 30th around 10:30 pm PST, a spectacular fireball crawled across the skies of southern California.

By David Aragorn
‘Vampire’ star sparks brilliant ‘super-outburst’ while gorging on its neighbor 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 30, 2020
An undead vampire star feeds on its victim, the two tug hard on this lifeblood swirling in space — then boom, and repeat.

By David Aragorn
Mystery at Mars pole explained 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 30, 2020
In 1966, two Caltech scientists were ruminating on the implications of the thin carbon dioxide (CO2) Martian atmosphere first revealed by Mariner IV, a NASA fly-by spacecraft built and flown by JPL. They theorized that Mars, with such an atmosphere, could have a long-term stable polar deposit of CO2 ice that, in turn, would control global atmospheric pressure.

By David Aragorn