One of the more noticeable themes in planetary science over the last few years has been the discovery that our solar solar system, and presumably many others as well, is a very wet place, brimming with water, ice and snow in some of the most unexpected locations, such as possible subsurface ocean on Pluto. But […]
Actual Image, Not an Artists Impression Image of HL Tauri Planetary Disc 350 Light Years Away / Credit ESO Innerspace regularly highlights images from the European Southern Observatory, particularly on Fridays, when the simple beauty of the cosmos serves as a pleasant counterbalance to the often messy struggles of a species trying to find its […]
From the European Southern Observatory: “Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have obtained a vivid close-up view of material streaming away from a newborn star. By looking at the glow coming from carbon monoxide molecules in an object called Herbig-Haro 46/47 they have discovered that its jets are even more energetic than previously […]
The European Southern Observatory in Chile is in some ways the Earth bound counterpart to the Hubble Space Telescope, providing both groundbreaking research as well as simply stunning images of deep space which often defy imagination, such as the image shown above, taken with the Very Large Telescope, which shows a planetary nebula surrounding a dying star 3300 light […]
Innerspace.net is primarily focused on developments in the international launch industry and the quest for progressively more affordable space transportation. It also attempts to keep in focus some of the reasons achieving that goal benefits science and society as a whole; to better understand the astonishing wonders in our own solar system, and those far beyond, even if we have […]
Source: European Southern Observatory Astronomers using the European Southern Observatory’s ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array) have announced the discovery of a disc of millimeter sized material encircling a brown dwarf star. Of insufficient mass to generate hydrogen fusion like main sequence stars such as our own sun, brown dwarfs, classified as sub-stellar objects, occupy an unusual position in between the largest plants and the smallest true […]
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