Pasadena, CA-(ENEWSPF)- NASA’s Kepler mission has verified 1,284 new planets — the single largest finding of planets to date. “This announcement more than doubles the number of confirmed planets from Kepler,” said Ellen Stofan, chief scientist at NASA Headquarters in Washington. “This gives us hope that somewhere out there, around a[Read More…]
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Intense Wind Found In The Neighbourhood Of A Black Hole
Southampton, UK-(ENEWSPF)- An international team of astrophysicists, including Professor Phil Charles from the University of Southampton, have detected an intense wind from one of the closest known black holes to the Earth. During observations of V404 Cygni, which went into a bright and violent outburst in June 2015 after more[Read More…]
First Global Topographic Model of Mercury Among MESSENGER’s Latest Delivery to the Planetary Data System
NASA-(ENEWSPF)- The MESSENGER mission has released the first global digital elevation model (DEM) of Mercury, revealing in stunning detail the topography across the entire innermost planet and paving the way for scientists to characterize fully the planet’s geologic history. The global topographic model was among three new products released today[Read More…]
NASA, Space Station Partners Announce Future Mission Crew Members
NASA-(ENEWSPF)- NASA and its International Space Station partners have announced the crew members for missions to the orbiting laboratory in 2017. The selection includes first-time space flyer NASA astronaut Scott Tingle and veteran Randy Bresnik. “There’s so much going on aboard the space station at this point, so many science[Read More…]
Watch: NASA’s Fermi Telescope Helps Link Cosmic Neutrino to Blazar Blast
By Francis Reddy NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. Greenbelt, MD-(ENEWSPF)- Nearly 10 billion years ago, the black hole at the center of a galaxy known as PKS B1424-418 produced a powerful outburst. Light from this blast began arriving at Earth in 2012. Now astronomers using data from NASA’s Fermi[Read More…]
Probing Dark Energy with Clusters: “Russian Doll” Galaxy Clusters Reveal Information About Dark Energy
Cambridge, MA-(ENEWSPF)- These four galaxy clusters were part of a large survey of over 300 clusters used to investigate dark energy, the mysterious energy that is currently driving the accelerating expansion of the Universe, as described in our latest press release. In these composite images, X-rays from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory[Read More…]
On the Road to Finding Other Earths (Watch)
Pasadena, CA-(ENEWSPF)- Scientists are getting closer to finding worlds that resemble our own “blue marble” of a planet. NASA’s Kepler mission alone has confirmed more than 1,000 planets outside our solar system — a handful of which are a bit bigger than Earth and orbit in the habitable zones of their[Read More…]
Powerful Winds Spotted From Mysterious X-Ray Binaries
ESA-(ENEWSPF)- ESA’s XMM-Newton has discovered gas streaming away at a quarter of the speed of light from very bright X-ray binaries in two nearby galaxies. At X-ray wavelengths, the celestial sky is dominated by two types of astronomical objects: supermassive black holes, sitting at the centres of large galaxies and[Read More…]
NASA to Provide Coverage of May 9 Mercury Transit of the Sun (Video)
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–May 3, 2016. NASA is inviting viewers around the world to see a relatively rare celestial event, with coverage of the Monday, May 9 transit of the sun by the planet Mercury. Media may view the event at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. Mercury passes between[Read More…]
Cosmic Beacons Reveal the Milky Way’s Ancient Core
Potsdam, Germany-(ENEWSPF)- An international team of astronomers led by Dr. Andrea Kunder of the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) in Germany and Dr. R. Michael Rich of UCLA has discovered that the central 2000 light years within the Milky Way Galaxy hosts an ancient population of stars. These stars[Read More…]
