Space Science

Treating Space Radiation Exposure With Drugs

Treating Space Radiation Exposure With Drugs

  RIANovosti has an interesting article regarding the use of tailored drugs to fight radiation exposure in laboratory mice. From the article: “In a new study, researchers at Stanford University tested a class of small molecule drugs, known as PHD inhibitors, on mice exposed to toxic amounts of radiation and the drugs protected the animals from […]

A Glowing Red Nebula and Uranus Seen Through Saturn’s Rings

A Glowing Red Nebula and Uranus Seen Through Saturn’s Rings

Image Credit: ESO The European Southern Observatory at La Silla released this image of a glowing hydrogen cloud, or nebula, Gum 41. The glow is caused by the searing radiation emitted by young, very hot stars which excites the hydrogen gas left over from star formation. This nebula is in the constellation Centaurus in the […]

NASA Research at South Pole Reveals Gravitational Waves, Birth of the Universe

NASA Research at South Pole Reveals Gravitational Waves, Birth of the Universe

  NASA/JPL News Story March 17, 2014 Astronomers are announcing today that they have acquired the first direct evidence that gravitational waves rippled through our infant universe during an explosive period of growth called inflation. This is the strongest confirmation yet of cosmic inflation theories, which say the universe expanded by 100 trillion trillion times, […]

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European Southern Observatory’s Spots Largest Hypergiant Star

European Southern Observatory’s Spots Largest Hypergiant Star

Really, Really Big Credit: ESO Another observation from the European Southern Observatory revealing just how strange, and magnificent, the depths of space can be. ESO Top News: ESO’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer has revealed the largest yellow star — and one of the ten largest stars found so far. This hypergiant has been found to […]

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Entering COSMOS

Entering COSMOS

1980’s classic PBS series COSMOS rebooted across Fox networks Sunday evening.  Beginning with an introduction by President Obama, and the voice of the late Carl Sagan himself delivering the opening lines from the original episode “the cosmos is all that is, or ever was, or ever will be,” a new generation has the opportunity to […]

Chandra Captures Pulsar’s Dramatic Escape from Supernova

Chandra Captures Pulsar’s Dramatic Escape from Supernova

NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has seen a fast-moving pulsar escaping from a supernova remnant while spewing out a record-breaking jet – the longest of any object in the Milky Way galaxy — of high-energy particles. The pulsar, a type of neutron star, is known as IGR J11014-6103. IGR J11014-6103’s peculiar behavior can likely be traced […]

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CrowdSourcing Space Science: NASA Launches DiskDetective

CrowdSourcing Space Science: NASA Launches DiskDetective

NASA has launched  DiskDetective.org,  a crowdsourced science project aimed at engaging the general public in identifying planetary nurseries in the debris fields surrounding stars. RELEASE 14-038 NASA-Sponsored ‘Disk Detective’ Lets Public Search for New Planetary Nurseries NASA is inviting the public to help astronomers discover embryonic planetary systems hidden among data from the agency’s Wide-field […]

The Water Geysers of Enceladus

The Water Geysers of Enceladus

Forget about the Bellagio,  the best dancing water fountain in this solar system isn’t in Vegas, its in orbit around Saturn’s moon Enceladus.  In the latest series of a series of images released by JPL from the remarkable Cassini spacecraft still on duty in the Saturn system, NASA has captured the simply stunning spectacle of […]

JPL : Radio Burst From Beyond our Galaxy

JPL : Radio Burst From Beyond our Galaxy

An intriguing announcement from JPL:  “Astronomers, including a team member from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., have detected the first population of radio bursts known to originate from galaxies beyond our own Milky Way. The sources of the light bursts are unknown, but cataclysmic events, such as merging or exploding stars, are likely […]

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Orbital’s Really Good Week

Orbital’s Really Good Week

It has been quite a week for Orbital Sciences Corporation. Following the successful maiden launch of its Antares rocket on Sunday, OSC reported first quarter earnings on Monday, and they too were strong, showing a 31% growth in operating income.  Today, the company annouced that it has been selected by NASA to build the Transiting Exo Planet Survey […]

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