 |  Huygens Scientific Archive data set released
ESA’s Huygens probe successfully descended through the atmosphere of Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, and safely landed on its surface on 14 January 2005. An extraordinary new world has been unveiled. The unique data obtained by the six Huygens experiments are now being archived in the ESA...  |
| Comments | Views | Last Activity | | 1 | 400 |
08-03-2006
by Tormod  | |
| |
| | Cassini Finds Lakes on Titan's Arctic Region
NASA's Cassini spacecraft has found lakes on Saturn's moon Titan. The lakes are most likely the source of hydrocarbon smog in the frigid moon's atmosphere. Finding the source of the complex soup of hydrocarbons in Titan's atmosphere has been a major goal for the Cassini mission and is... |
| Comments | Views | Last Activity | | 2 | 660 |
07-31-2006
by Tormod | |
| |
| | Titan's pebbles 'seen' by Huygens radio
An unexpected radio reflection from the surface of Titan has allowed ESA scientists to deduce the average size of stones and pebbles close to the Huygens' landing site. The technique could be used on other lander missions to analyse planetary surfaces for free. ... |
| Comments | Views | Last Activity | | 5 | 545 |
07-30-2006
by Turtle | |
| |
| | Planet-Forming Disks Might Put the Brakes on Stars
Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have found evidence that dusty disks of planet-forming material tug on and slow down the young, whirling stars they surround.
http://hypography.com/gallery/files/9/9/8/protodisk_thumb.jpgYoung stars are full of energy, spinning around like... |
| Comments | Views | Last Activity | | 0 | 456 |
07-25-2006
by C1ay | |
| |
| | Cassini Reveals Earth-Like Land on Titan
New radar images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft revealed geological features similar to Earth on Xanadu, an Australia-sized, bright region on Saturn's moon Titan.
http://hypography.com/gallery/files/9/9/8/xanadu_thumb.jpgThese radar images, from a strip more than 4,500 kilometers... |
| Comments | Views | Last Activity | | 3 | 563 |
07-21-2006
by Pyrotex | |
| |
| | Spitzer Spots Building Blocks of Life in Supernova Remnant
In 1987 a massive star exploded in a neighboring galaxy, an event called a supernova. It was the closest supernova to Earth since the invention of the telescope centuries ago. Now, a team using the Spitzer Space Telescope and the 8-meter Gemini South infrared telescope in Chile have probed... |
| Comments | Views | Last Activity | | 0 | 558 |
07-17-2006
by C1ay | |
| |
| | Supernova leaves behind mysterious object
Thanks to data from ESA’s XMM-Newton satellite, a team of scientists taking a closer look at an object discovered over 25 years ago have found that it is like none other known in our galaxy.
http://hypography.com/gallery/files/9/9/8/rcw103_thumb.jpgThe object is in the heart of... |
| |
| |
| | Ancient, massive galaxy cluster
Astronomers announced this week the discovery of the most distant cluster of galaxies ever found. The cluster may also be the most massive one yet seen at such an early era in the universe.
http://hypography.com/gallery/files/9/9/8/XMMXCS2215-1738_thumb.jpgAlmost 10 billion light-years... |
| Comments | Views | Last Activity | | 5 | 854 |
07-05-2006
by FRIPRO | |
| |
| | A Heavenly Sky Show on the 4th of July
This drives astronomers crazy. Every summer, on the one night when millions of Americans are guaranteed to be outside at nightfall, necks craned upward watching the sky, almost no one pays attention to the heavens. It's all fireworks, fireworks, fireworks. Stars and planets don't stand a chance.... |
| Comments | Views | Last Activity | | 1 | 576 |
07-03-2006
by Turtle | |
| |
| | Hubble Reveals Two Dust Disks Around Nearby Star
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has revealed not one but two dust disks circling the nearby star Beta Pictoris. The images confirm a decade of scientific speculation that a warp in the young star's dust disk may actually be a second inclined disk, which is evidence for the possibility of at... |
| |
| |
| | New Big Bang Evidence?
Scientists peering back to the oldest light in the universe have new evidence for what happened within its first trillionth of a second, when the universe grew from submicroscopic to astronomical size in far less than a wink of the eye. ... |
| Comments | Views | Last Activity | | 4 | 1,125 |
06-24-2006
by EWright | |
| |
| | NASA's Chandra Solves Black Hole Paradox
Black holes light up the universe and astronomers may finally know how. New data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory show for the first time powerful magnetic fields are the key to these brilliant and startling light shows.
http://hypography.com/gallery/files/9/9/8/blackhole_thumb.jpgIt... |
| Comments | Views | Last Activity | | 5 | 650 |
06-23-2006
by C1ay | |
| |
| | Hubble Sees Galaxy on Edge
This is a unique view of the disk galaxy NGC 5866 tilted nearly edge-on to our line-of-sight. Hubble's sharp vision reveals a crisp dust lane dividing the galaxy into two halves. The image highlights the galaxy's structure: a subtle, reddish bulge surrounding a bright nucleus, a blue disk... |
| Comments | Views | Last Activity | | 3 | 905 |
06-19-2006
by Sharmistha | |
| |
| | XMM-Newton spots the greatest of great balls of fire
Thanks to data from ESA’s XMM-Newton X-ray satellite, a team of international scientists found a comet-like ball of gas over a thousand million times the mass of the sun hurling through a distant galaxy cluster over 750 kilometres per second.
... |
| |
| |
| | Neptune orbit hosts trojan asteroids
Three new objects locked into roughly the same orbit as Neptune--called "Trojan" asteroids--have been found by researchers from the Carnegie Institution's Department of Terrestrial Magnetism (DTM) and the Gemini Observatory in Hilo, Hawaii. ... |
| Comments | Views | Last Activity | | 5 | 1,025 |
06-16-2006
by Tormod | |
| |
| | Corkscrew Asteroid
Earth has a "second moon." Asteroid 2003 YN107 is looping around our planet once a year.
http://hypography.com/gallery/files/5/AA29_qs1_thumb.gifMeasuring only 20 meters across, the asteroid is too small to see with the unaided eye—but it is there.
This news, believe it or not,... |
| Comments | Views | Last Activity | | 5 | 45,459 |
06-11-2006
by Turtle | |
| |
| | The Case of the Neutron Star With a Wayward Wake
A long observation with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory revealed important new details of a neutron star that is spewing out a wake of high-energy particles as it races through space. The deduced location of the neutron star on the edge of a supernova remnant, and the peculiar orientation of... |
| Comments | Views | Last Activity | | 2 | 1,014 |
06-07-2006
by CraigD | |
| |
| | 'Cosmic telescopes' may have found infant galaxies
Using massive clusters of galaxies as "cosmic telescopes," a research team led by a Johns Hopkins University astronomer has found what may be infant galaxies born in the first billion years after the beginning of the universe.
... |
| Comments | Views | Last Activity | | 2 | 700 |
06-06-2006
by CraigD | |
| |
| | Saturn's Moon Enceladus May Have Rolled Over
Saturn's moon Enceladus -- an active, icy world with an unusually warm south pole -- may have performed an unusual trick for a planetary body. New research shows Enceladus rolled over, literally, explaining why the moon's hottest spot is at the south pole. ... |
| Comments | Views | Last Activity | | 3 | 1,185 |
06-01-2006
by Jay-qu | |
| |
| | Highlands and Mare landscapes on the Moon
These two images, taken by the advanced Moon Imaging Experiment (AMIE) on board ESA's SMART-1 spacecraft, show the difference between lunar highlands and a mare area from close by.
http://hypography.com/gallery/files/5/AMI_highlights_mare_EAE3_H_thumb.jpgThe first image, showing... |
| Comments | Views | Last Activity | | 1 | 1,032 |
05-30-2006
by InfiniteNow | |
| |
