Baltimore, MD-(ENEWSPF)- For thousands of years, humans have recorded sightings of mysterious comets sweeping across the nighttime skies. These celestial wanderers, “snowballs” of dust and ice, are swift-moving visitors from the cold depths of space. Some of them periodically visit the inner solar system during their journeys around the sun. Astronomers[Read More…]
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Metal Content in Early Galaxies Challenges Star Forming Theory
MAUNAKEA, Hawaii-(ENEWSPF)- An International team led by scientists at ETH Zurich in Switzerland used the W. M. Keck Observatory to study the role of star formation rates in metal contents of distant galaxies. What they discovered is the amount of metals are very similar, irrespective of galaxies’ star formation activity, raising[Read More…]
Space Mission First to Observe Key Interaction Between Magnetic Fields of Earth and Sun
NASA mission, with help from UMD physicists, is first to observe how magnetic reconnection takes place, a critical step in understanding space weather College Park, MD-(ENEWSPF)- Most people do not give much thought to the Earth’s magnetic field, yet it is every bit as essential to life as air, water and[Read More…]
Did Star Formation Regulation Change as the Universe Evolved?
Subaru Telescope, Japan-(ENEWSPF)- An international team led by scientists at the Subaru Telescope and Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zürich in Switzerland used the W. M. Keck Observatory (Note 1) to study the role of star formation rates in metal contents of distant galaxies. What they discovered is that the amount of[Read More…]
Amateurs Prepare Big-Picture Perspective To Support Juno Mission
EuroPlanet-(ENEWSPF)- Some of the world’s leading amateur and professional astronomers are meeting on 12-13 May to prepare for a campaign of ground-based global observations in support of NASA’s Juno mission to Jupiter. Juno arrives on 4th July this year and will investigate Jupiter through a series of long elliptical orbits with[Read More…]
Critical NASA Science Returns to Earth aboard SpaceX Dragon Spacecraft
NASA-(ENEWSPF)- A SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft splashed down in the Pacific Ocean at 2:51 p.m. EDT Wednesday, May 11, about 261 miles southwest of Long Beach, California, with more than 3,700 pounds of NASA cargo, science and technology demonstration samples from the International Space Station. The Dragon spacecraft will be[Read More…]
Pluto’s Interactions With The Solar Wind Are Unique, Study Finds
Washington, D.C.-(ENEWSPF)- Pluto has some characteristics less like that of a comet and more like much larger planets, according to an analysis of Pluto’s unique interaction with the solar wind, scientists say. Using data from an instrument aboard the New Horizons spacecraft gathered on its Pluto flyby in July 2015, scientists[Read More…]
New Study Supports Natural Causes, Not Alien Activity, Explain Mystery Star’s Behavior
by David Salisbury Nashville, TN-(ENEWSPF)- Sorry, E.T. lovers, but the results of a new study make it far less likely that KIC 8462852, popularly known as Tabby’s star, is the home of industrious aliens who are gradually enclosing it in a vast shell called a Dyson sphere. Public interest in the[Read More…]
Tides In Binary Star Systems: When Neutron Stars Emit Gravitational Waves
Potsdam-Golm, Germany-(ENEWSPF)- Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Potsdam develop an accurate model for the detection and interpretation of gravitational waves emitted by neutron stars in binary systems. This model contains, for the first time, a realistic description of how neutron stars are deformed just before they[Read More…]
More Than 1,200 New Planets Confirmed Using New Technique For Verifying Kepler Data
Princeton University-(ENEWSPF)- Scientists from Princeton University and NASA have confirmed that 1,284 objects observed outside Earth’s solar system by NASA’s Kepler spacecraft are indeed planets. Reported in The Astrophysical Journal on May 10, it is the largest single announcement of new planets to date and more than doubles the number of[Read More…]
