Australia-(ENEWSPF)- UNSW Australia astronomers have discovered the closest potentially habitable planet found outside our solar system so far, orbiting a star just 14 light years away. The planet, more than four times the mass of the Earth, is one of three that the team detected around a red dwarf star called[Read More…]
Space
Hubble Captures First-ever Predicted Exploding Star
HST-(ENEWSPF)- Many stars end their lives with a with a bang, but only a few of these stellar explosions have been caught in the act. When they are, spotting them successfully has been down to pure luck — until now. On 11 December 2015 astronomers not only imaged a supernova[Read More…]
Be an Astronaut: NASA Accepting Applications for Future Explorers
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–December 14, 2015. Recently named the best place to work in the federal government for the fourth year in a row, NASA is looking for the best candidates to work in the best job on or off the planet. The astronaut candidate application website now is live and accepting[Read More…]
New Insights into Solar Flares
Cambridge, MA-(ENEWSPF)- Astronomers have made a significant step toward confirming a proposed explanation for how solar flares accelerate charged particles to speeds nearly that of light. This important advance was made possible by the new capabilities of the National Science Foundation’s Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope.[Read More…]
A Witness to a Wet Early Mars
Aurorae Chaos and Ganges Chasma EU–(ENEWSPF)–19 November 2015 — Vast volumes of water once flooded through this deep chasm on Mars that connects the ‘Grand Canyon’ of the Solar System – Valles Marineris – to the planet’s northern lowlands.The image, taken by ESA’s Mars Express on 16 July, focuses on[Read More…]
5400mph Winds Discovered Hurtling Around Planet Outside Solar System
University of Warwick-(ENEWSPF)- Winds of over 2km per second have been discovered flowing around planet outside of the Earth’s solar system, new research has found. The University of Warwick discovery is the first time that a weather system on a planet outside of Earth’s solar system has been directly measured[Read More…]
NASA’s Fermi Satellite Detects First Gamma-ray Pulsar in Another Galaxy
NASA-(ENEWSPF)- Researchers using NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have discovered the first gamma-ray pulsar in a galaxy other than our own. The object sets a new record for the most luminous gamma-ray pulsar known. The pulsar lies in the outskirts of the Tarantula Nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a[Read More…]
Whopping Galaxy Cluster Spotted with Help of NASA Telescopes
NASA-(ENEWSPF)- Astronomers have discovered a giant gathering of galaxies in a very remote part of the universe, thanks to NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope and Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE). The galaxy cluster, located 8.5 billion light-years away, is the most massive structure yet found at such great distances. Galaxy clusters[Read More…]
Hubble Uncovers Fading Cinders of Some of Our Galaxy’s Earliest Homesteaders
Baltimore, MD-(ENEWSPF)- Using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to conduct a “cosmic archaeological dig” at the very heart of our Milky Way galaxy, astronomers have uncovered the blueprints of our galaxy’s early construction phase. Peering deep into the Milky Way’s crowded central hub of stars, Hubble researchers have uncovered for the first[Read More…]
White House, NASA Administrator Statements on 15 Years of Human Habitation Aboard International Space Station
NASA astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson, an Expedition 24 flight engineer in 2010, took a moment during her space station mission to enjoy an unmatched view of home through a window in the Cupola of the International Space Station, the brilliant blue and white part of Earth glowing against the blackness[Read More…]
