After a week which began with a North Korean nuclear test and ended with a meteor strike over the skies of Russia which NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory now estimates released nearly 500 kilotons of energy, followed by a near miss with a much larger asteroid why not start off a new week with something a little less ominous, perhaps another stunning image from the […]
Another amazing image from the European Southern Observatory, this one taken from the 2.2 meter telescope at the La Silla Observatory in Chile. The image shows a stellar nursery in the cloud Lupus 3, 5 light years across and located 600 light years from Earth in the constellation Scorpius. The coffee colored cloud is host to a […]
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 […]
The image is strangely compelling; a lone planet, drifting endlessly through the dead, cold void of space. Science fiction writers love them, one such world, Danaan, was the subject of the The Eternity Artifact, by L.E. Modesitt Jr. In that novel, the planet’s extreme velocity and a trajectory carrying it straight out of the galaxy suggested alien engineering, providing the rationale for a last moment excursion before it passed into […]
From the European Southern Observatory: Using a whopping nine-gigapixel image from the VISTA infrared survey telescope at ESO’s Paranal Observatory, an international team of astronomers has created a catalogue of more than 84 million stars in the central parts of the Milky Way. This gigantic dataset contains more than ten times more stars than previous studies […]
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