Bildung… This Hubble Image Is a Premonition of the Sun’s Violent Death 26 Sept 2016 The planetary nebula NGC 2440, captured in dazzling detail in this new Hubble Space Telescope image, was once a star much like our Sun. By Becky Ferreira | MOTHERBOARD But…
Fortschritt… Coming Soon: A New Telescope Array Hunting for Extragalactic Gamma Rays 23 Sept 201622 Sept 2016 On Monday, the Council of the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory signed a deal with the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias to place 19 telescopes on the island of La Palma…
Ökonomie… Europe Has Added 1.1 Billion Stars to Its Milky Way Map 15 Sept 201614 Sept 2016 The European Space Agency (ESA) has released the first batch of data from its Gaia star mapping project—a mission that is currently on track to chart one billion stars in…
Geschichte… Asteroid Grazes Earth’s Upper-Atmosphere With Only Two-Day Warning 12 Sept 2016 Just two days before its near-terminal graze of Earth’s upper atmosphere last week, astronomers discovered the presence and precarious trajectory of Asteroid 2016 RB1. By Bred Bergan | MOTHERBOARD Its…
Geschichte… SETI Telescopes Are Investigating a Weird Radio Signal from a Sunlike Star 30 Aug 2016 An unusual radio signal from a Sunlike star has prompted alien hunters to take a closer look at the system, located just 94 light years away. By Becky Ferreira |…
Ökonomie… NASA’s Latest Mission Will Attempt To Land on an Asteroid—And Bring a Piece Home 26 Aug 201625 Aug 2016 Earth lives in the middle of a shooting gallery. We are surrounded by thousands of asteroids that whiz close to our planet. While we don’t know of an imminent threat…
Geschichte… Finding Habitable Planets Is Even Harder Than We Thought 21 Aug 201620 Aug 2016 It doesn’t take a Carl Sagan-style tear-jerker to realize how unique and awesome our planet is (although it never hurts), but as astronomers ramp up the search for exoplanets orbiting…
Bildung… From Now On You’ll Be Able to Access NASA Research for Free 18 Aug 201617 Aug 2016 Fancy some super nerdy bedtime reading? NASA has announced that it will now provide public access to all journal articles on research funded by the agency. By Victoria Turk |…
Bildung… Watch a Comet Crash Into the Goddamn Sun 9 Aug 20168 Aug 2016 On Thursday, a comet dramatically peaced out on life by swan-diving straight into the Sun. Its final moments were recorded by the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), a spacecraft operated…
Geschichte… Are the Aliens Trying to Extinguish an Entire Star? 7 Aug 20166 Aug 2016 It's surely too early to say what their motivations might be—or what they even look like and whether they think that humans are cool or lame—but a paper posted this…
Bildung… Why Gamma Ray Bursts Are the Most Epic of All Apocalyptic Scenarios 2 Aug 20161 Aug 2016 Asteroid impacts. Nuclear war. Unhinged climate change. These are all respectable, solid entries into the great pantheon of doomsday scenarios that could wipe out life on Earth. By Becky Ferreira…
Geschichte… We’ll Never Hear From the Philae Comet Lander Again, Sob 27 Jul 201626 Jul 2016 The past couple of years have been a rollercoaster of emotions for fans of the European Space Agency’s comet-chasing Rosetta mission, and Wednesday brings a final blow to those still…
Geschichte… Four Billion Years Ago, the Moon May Have Taken a Punch from a Protoplanet 21 Jul 201620 Jul 2016 Mare Imbrium, the lunar impact crater that forms the right eye of the pareidolic “Man in the Moon,” may have been formed by a protoplanet-sized object colliding with the young…
Geschichte… Chernobyl Microbes Are Heading to the International Space Station 18 Jul 201617 Jul 2016 SpaceX and NASA are ready to send the next cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station, which contains over 250 different research investigations that the space station crew will…
Bildung… Hubble Photographs the Crab Nebula’s Beating Heart 11 Jul 201610 Jul 2016 6500 light-years away from Earth is one of the Universe’s most photogenic objects: the Crab Nebula. By Daniel Oberhaus | MOTHERBOARD This iconic cloud of gas is the result of…
Bildung… What Is a ‘Stealth Black Hole,’ and Should We Worry One Will Gobble Us Up? 1 Jul 201630 Jun 2016 This week, scientists announced they’d found what’s been called a “stealth black hole” lurking in Milky Way, which seems to be slowly munching away at its companion star. Their research…
Ökonomie… How Space Technology Will Produce the Best Weed Ever 22 Jun 201621 Jun 2016 Mike Dixon wants to send plants to Mars. Growing crops in space is the best way to provide proper nutrition to the crew on a long-duration mission, this University of…
Bildung… Like Dinosaurs, Meteorites Could Have Been Very Different Millions of Years Ago 15 Jun 201614 Jun 2016 Geologists have found a new type of meteorite which smashed into the planet around 470 million years ago, and they reckon it could be the first example of an “extinct”…
Ökonomie… NASA and the UAE Just Signed a Space Agreement to Collaborate on Mars 13 Jun 201612 Jun 2016 Early Sunday morning, NASA announced it had signed a “significant” space agreement with the United Arab Emirates’ space agency, one that NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said will help advance NASA’s…
Bildung… Black Hole Rain Is Like Normal Rain, Only Light-Years in Scale 9 Jun 20168 Jun 2016 Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) have identified an awesome new form of cosmic weather: black hole rain. The observations, described Wednesday in Nature, offer the first direct…
Bildung… Is the Universe Expanding Faster Than We Thought? 5 Jun 20164 Jun 2016 The idea that the Universe is expanding is nothing new. It’s been expanding since the Big Bang—some 13.7 billion years ago. However, according to new research, it’s expanding at a…
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