The Dark Energy Camera (DECam) has a massive 570 megapixel camera, and its new image is of the Corona Australis Molecular Cloud. Corona Australis is one of the closest star-forming regions to Earth. It’s not as well-studied as the Orion Molecular Cloud or Ophiuchus, but as DECam’s new iage of Corona Australis shows, it’s just …
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It’s not known whether “Ulysses 31” was on Christopher Nolan’s radar in his teenage years, but it’s intriguing to think it could have influenced the director’s decision to take on Homer’s “The Odyssey”. This animated space opera, a French/Japanese co-production, delivered a crash course in Greek mythology to a generation of kids who grew up …
Remembering 'Ulysses 31', the '80s cartoon that transported 'The Odyssey' to outer space Read More »
If you still picture Mars as a monotonous red desert, it may be time for an update. The European Space Agency’s Mars Express orbiter has been capturing some of the Red Planet’s most surreal landscapes, and its latest images reveal a sprawling field that looks like molten metal frozen across the floor of an ancient …
These 'metallic' dunes on Mars look like sci-fi. What are they really? Read More »
An accelerating observer finds their empty vacuum glowing with real particles, a bizarre effect called Unruh radiation. It’s a cousin to Hawking radiation, but with no black hole required, just a rocket and its throttle.This post was originally published on this site
People keep asking me about the total solar eclipse on August 12. That’s understandable. For anyone in the Northern Hemisphere, it is shaping up to be a joyous day of astronomy. Totality will cross eastern Greenland, western Iceland and northern Spain, but much of Europe will see a very deep partial eclipse, and even parts …
The Perseid meteor shower starts this week. Here's why you should look up now Read More »
Making a sequel to Ridley Scott’s 1979 classic “Alien” should have been a disaster. This was a movie that defined a whole new sub-genre of outer-space horror, a perfectly structured scarefest that also introduced one of cinema’s greatest-ever monsters to the world. Luckily, James Cameron — then one of Hollywood’s hottest properties off the back …
When supermassive black holes (SMBH) in a certain mass range eat a star, they first tear it apart in a Tidal Disruption Event (TDE). By detecting TDE across cosmic time, astronomers can chart the growth of SMBH as the Universe aged. The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will help, by finding about 100 TDEs every …
The Roman Space Telescope Will Find Ancient Black Holes By Watching How They Eat Stars Read More »
After more than two decades of searching, scientists have finally observed a phenomenon in a hot and dense particle ‘soup’ similar to that which filled the cosmos moments after the Big Bang. The observation could help cosmologists better understand the incredibly hot and dense state of the universe in its earliest moments. The world’s most …
As far as we know, food doesn’t exist naturally in space. We have to bring it with us if we want to explore the final frontier. One of the oldest and most common types of food on planet Earth is seafood, yet we know surprisingly little about how aquatic animals would react to the microgravity …
Scientists are Teaching Shrimp to Eat in Microgravity for Future Moon Bases Read More »
An Indian company will make history early Saturday morning (July 18), and you can watch the action live. Skyroot Aerospace plans to launch its Vikram-1 rocket from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre, on the Indian barrier island of Sriharikota, on Saturday at 2 a.m. EDT (0600 GMT; 11:30 a.m. India Standard Time). Vikram-1 is the …
