SABRE engine in place on Skylon spaceplane UK–(ENEWSPF)–16 July 2013. The UK government has announced plans to invest in the development of an air-breathing rocket engine – intended for a single-stage-to-orbit spaceplane – following the ESA-managed feasibility testing of essential technology. The £60 million investment, provided through the UK Space[Read More…]
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NASA Hubble Finds New Neptune Moon
WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–July 16, 2013. NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has discovered a new moon orbiting the distant blue-green planet Neptune, the 14th known to be circling the giant planet. The moon, designated S/2004 N 1, is estimated to be no more than 12 miles across, making it the smallest known moon in[Read More…]
South Pacific Galileo Station Endures Freak Rains and Floods
13-m antenna at Galileo’s Nouméa ground station EU–(ENEWSPF)–15 July 2013. Think your summer has been bad? Engineers manning Galileo’s South Pacific ground station on New Caledonia found themselves marooned by heavy rains and a flash flood – though the station carried on operating regardless. Torrential rains lashed this French-administered group[Read More…]
Feeding Galaxy Caught in Distant Searchlight by International Research Team
Artist’s impression of a galaxy accreting material from its surroundings. Image courtesy European Southern Observatory Santa Barbara, CA-(ENEWSPF)- An international group of astronomers that includes UC Santa Barbara astrophysicist Crystal Martin and former UCSB postdoctoral researcher Nicolas Bouché has spotted a distant galaxy hungrily snacking on nearby gas. The gas[Read More…]
Astronomers Witness Birth Of Milky Way’s Most Massive Star
(PHOTO SUPPLIED) Scientists have observed in unprecedented detail the birth of a massive star within a dark cloud core about 10,000 light years from Earth California State University-(ENEWSPF)- The team used the new ALMA (Atacama Large Millimetre/submillimetre Array) telescope in Chile – the most powerful radio telescope in the world[Read More…]
SOLIS Observatory Gives New Insights Into Space Weather
California State University-(ENEWSPF)- Shifts in the magnetic field just above the surface of the Sun lead to liftoff of interplanetary "space storms," according to new results from the Synoptic Optical Long-Term Investigation of the Sun (SOLIS) instrument. The results were presented by California State University, Northridge, physics and astronomy professor[Read More…]
Sun’s Loops are Displaying an Optical Illusion
This photo of the Sun’s edge, taken with the Solar Dynamics Observatory Atmospheric Imaging Assembly, shows coronal loops in a variety of sizes. Although the loops appear to have a constant width, like strands of rope, new work suggests that this is an optical illusion. The loops are actually tapered,[Read More…]
Last Piece of the Puzzle for ESA Dark Universe Mission
Artist’s impression of two Euclid concepts. Credit: ESA. UK Space Agency -(ENEWSPF)- Designed to study the enigmatic dark matter and dark energy with great precision, the European mission is due for launch in 2020. Thales is responsible for the satellite and infrastructure and overseeing the integration of all the parts[Read More…]
Astronomers Find Clues To Decades-Long Coronal Heating Mystery
Columbia University -(ENEWSPF)- Drs. Michael Hahn and Daniel Wolf Savin, research scientists at Columbia University’s Astrophysics Laboratory in New York, NY, found evidence that magnetic waves in a polar coronal hole contain enough energy to heat the corona and deposit most of their energy at sufficiently low heights for the[Read More…]
NGC 2392: A Beautiful End to a Star’s Life
NGC 2392 is a planetary nebula, a phase that results when a star like the sun becomes a red giant and sheds its outer layers. X-rays from Chandra (pink) shows superheated gas around the dense, hot core of the star. (PHOTO SUPPLIED) Harvard-(ENEWSPF)- Stars like the Sun can become remarkably[Read More…]
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