Dark Matter Filaments of Cosmic Web Imaged Two Canadian researchers say that they have constructed a composite image of dark matter filaments that make up what cosmologists call the cosmic web. Scientists have been finding evidence that our universe may be anything but random and that everything is actually organized and connected to each other […]
New Horizons Journey; Wrong Way Asteroid; Ring Around Mars?
Posted April 4th, 2017 at 3:45 pm (UTC-4)
New Horizons Halfway to Next Flyby Destination NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft provided scientists an amazing once in a lifetime look at the distant dwarf planet Pluto as it flew by it in July 2015. Along with spectacular images of Pluto the spacecraft also sent back those of Pluto’s five moons including high definition shots of […]
NASA Prevents Space Wreck; Black Hole Winds; Oldest Fossils Found
Posted March 3rd, 2017 at 4:15 pm (UTC-4)
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NASA Prevents a Wreck at Mars The folks at NASA’s MAVEN program recently had to give their spacecraft a small unscheduled course correction so that it wouldn’t smash into Mars’s moon Phobos. The spacecraft that’s been circling the Red Planet for a little over two years conducted a motor burn that give it a slight […]
January 2017 Science Images
Posted February 1st, 2017 at 9:12 am (UTC-4)
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October 2016 Science Images
Posted November 2nd, 2016 at 4:24 pm (UTC-4)
Cosmic Cannon; Mars Dust Storm Forecast; Dione’s Subsurface Ocean
Posted October 7th, 2016 at 4:20 pm (UTC-4)
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Astronomers Find a Cosmic Cannon Astronomers have spotted super-hot blobs of plasma blasting into space like cannonballs near a dying red giant star, some 1,200 light years away. Using the Hubble Space Telescope to make their discovery, the scientists found that the balls of hot gas are flying so fast a trip from the Earth […]
September 2016 Science Images
Posted September 30th, 2016 at 4:30 pm (UTC-4)
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Oh! No Flowing H2O on The Red Planet?
Posted August 24th, 2016 at 4:15 pm (UTC-4)
Last September, with much hoopla, NASA confirmed evidence of liquid water flowing on present-day Mars. But a new study using data from the space agency’s Mars Odyssey mission throws some cold water on those findings. About a year ago, the space agency’s Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM) onboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter identified […]
July 2016 Science Images
Posted August 1st, 2016 at 4:19 pm (UTC-4)