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UrduScientists have combined NASA data and cutting-edge image processing to gain new insight into the solar structures that create the Sun’s flow of high-speed solar wind, detailed in new research published today in The Astrophysical Journal. This first look at…
Tag: SATELLITE MISSIONS/SHUTTLES
Galaxies hit single, doubles, and triple (growing black holes)
When three galaxies collide, what happens to the huge black holes at the centers of each? A new study using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and several other telescopes reveals new information about how many black holes are furiously growing after…
NASA missions unmask magnetar eruptions in nearby galaxies
On April 15, 2020, a brief burst of high-energy light swept through the solar system, triggering instruments on several NASA and European spacecraft. Now, multiple international science teams conclude that the blast came from a supermagnetized stellar remnant known as…
NASA missions help investigate an ‘Old Faithful’ active galaxy
During a typical year, over a million people visit Yellowstone National Park, where the Old Faithful geyser regularly blasts a jet of boiling water high in the air. Now, an international team of astronomers has discovered a cosmic equivalent, a…
Chandra studies extraordinary magnetar
In 2020, astronomers added a new member to an exclusive family of exotic objects with the discovery of a magnetar. New observations from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory help support the idea that it is also a pulsar, meaning it emits…
Remote sensing data sheds light on when and how asteroid Ryugu lost its water
PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — Last month, Japan’s Hayabusa2 mission brought home a cache of rocks collected from a near-Earth asteroid called Ryugu. While analysis of those returned samples is just getting underway, researchers are using data from the spacecraft’s…
Reawakened geyser does not foretell Yellowstone volcanic eruptions, study shows
Analysis of Steamboat Geyser also finds relationship between column height and reservoir depth
Subscriptions to satellite alerts linked to decreased deforestation in Africa
MADISON, Wis. — Deforestation dropped by 18 percent in two years in African countries where organizations subscribed to receive warnings from a new service using satellites to detect decreases in forest cover in the tropics. The carbon emissions avoided by…
A new TanSat XCO2 global product for climate studies
Since CO 2 has been recognized as the most important anthropogenic greenhouse gas owing to its significant impact on global warming and climate change, there have been a substantial number of studies that have focused on investigating the status of…
Satellites can reveal risk of forced labor in the world’s fishing fleet
Groundbreaking model uses remote sensing data, machine learning, and human rights expertise to shed light on slavery at sea
SwRI-led team finds meteoric evidence for a previously unknown asteroid
Mineralogy points to large, water-rich parent asteroid for carbonaceous chondrite meteorite
Blood alcohol levels much lower than the legal limit impair hand-eye coordination
In previous studies, eye movements and vision were only affected at blood alcohol concentrations (BACs) approaching the legal limit for driving (0.08% BAC), in England, Wales and Northern Ireland (1). New research published in The Journal of Physiology however found…
NASA’s Webb sunshield successfully unfolds and tensions in final tests
Lengthened to the size of a tennis court, the five-layer sunshield of NASA’s fully assembled James Webb Space Telescope successfully completed a final series of large-scale deployment and tensioning tests. This milestone puts the observatory one step closer to its…
SwRI models point to a potentially diverse metabolic menu at Enceladus
Discovery provides more evidence that the Saturn moon could support life in its subsurface ocean
A pair of lonely planet-like objects born like stars
Star-forming processes sometimes create mysterious astronomical objects called brown dwarfs, which are smaller and colder than stars, and can have masses and temperatures down to those of exoplanets in the most extreme cases. Just like stars, brown dwarfs often wander…
Researchers use origami to solve space travel challenge
PULLMAN, Wash. — WSU researchers have used the ancient Japanese art of paper folding to possibly solve a key challenge for outer space travel – how to store and move fuel to rocket engines. The researchers have developed an origami-inspired,…
Exoplanet around distant star resembles reputed ‘Planet Nine’ in our solar system
Astronomers confirm bound orbit for planet far from its star, showing that far-flung planets exist
Beating the heat: Oxidation in novel coating material for aircraft gas turbine engines
Scientists investigate oxidative reactions in ytterbium silicide, a heat-resistant coating, to improve heat efficiency in aircraft gas turbine engines
Using Earth’s history to inform the search for life on exoplanets
UC Riverside-led team looks back to find life beyond
Scientists get the lowdown on sun’s super-hot atmosphere
Orbiting instrument hints at how stored magnetic energy heats solar atmosphere
Drones and AI detect soybean maturity with high accuracy
URBANA, Ill. – Walking rows of soybeans in the mid-summer heat is an exhausting but essential chore in breeding new cultivars. Researchers brave the heat daily during crucial parts of the growing season to look for plants showing desirable traits,…
Gaia space telescope measured the acceleration of the Solar System
The Gaia space telescope has measured the acceleration of the Solar System when it orbits the center of our Milky Way galaxy. The Solar System motion relative to the stars agrees with the results by Finnish astronomers in the 19th…
Voyager spacecraft detect new type of solar electron burst
Physicists report accelerated electrons linked with cosmic rays
Gaia: astronomers to release most accurate data ever for nearly two billion stars
On 3 December an international team of astronomers will announce the most detailed ever catalogue of the stars in a huge swathe of our Milky Way galaxy. The measurements of stellar positions, movement, brightness and colours are in the third…
Planetary scientist named key partner on NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer mission
Christopher Edwards joins multi-institutional team led by Caltech to design and build instrumentation for satellite to study the Moon’s water cycle and make critical basemaps
Scientists solve big limitation of stratospheric balloon payloads
How do you cool a large telescope to absolute zero while flying it from a huge balloon at 130,000 feet?
New method sees fibers in 3D, uses it to estimate conductivity
As a vehicle travels through space at hypersonic speeds, the gases surrounding it generate heat at dangerous temperatures for the pilot and instrumentation inside. Designing a vehicle that can drive the heat away requires an understanding of the thermal properties…
AGU Fall Meeting: Press event schedule and online media center now live
WASHINGTON–The press conference schedule and online media center are now live for Fall Meeting 2020, when more than 20,000 attendees from 110 countries are expected to assemble virtually for the largest worldwide conference in the Earth and space sciences. This…
Chemical physicist to collaborate on NASA-funded study of Saturn’s moon Titan
Findings will contribute to NASA’s mission to Titan in 2026
In the mysterious Blue Ring Nebula, scientists see the fate of binary stars
In 2004, scientists with NASA’s Galaxy Evolution Explorer spotted an object unlike any they’d seen in our Milky Way Galaxy: a large, faint blob of gas that seemed to have a star at its center.
In the mysterious Blue Ring Nebula, scientists see the fate of binary stars
In 2004, scientists with NASA’s Galaxy Evolution Explorer spotted an object unlike any they’d seen in our Milky Way Galaxy: a large, faint blob of gas that seemed to have a star at its center. In the ultraviolet wavelengths used…
Experimenting in space to help prevent mudslides here on Earth
What can the International Space Station teach us about mudslides here on Earth? Here is the connection: UC San Diego engineers are trying to better understand the role gravity plays in mudslides. That is why in 18 months, they will…
New tool predicts geological movement and the flow of groundwater in old coalfields
A remote monitoring tool to help authorities manage public safety and environmental issues in recently abandoned coal mines has been developed by the University of Nottingham. The tool uses satellite radar imagery to capture millimetre-scale measurements of changes in terrain…
Cosmic flashes come in all different sizes
By studying the site of a spectacular stellar explosion seen in April 2020, a Chalmers-led team of scientists have used four European radio telescopes to confirm that astronomy’s most exciting puzzle is about to be solved. Fast radio bursts, unpredictable…
Preparing for a human mission to Mars
New Rochelle, NY, November 12, 2020–Future human missions to Mars depend on field research in an environment similar to that of Mars. It will enable the evaluation of operational concepts and optimization of strategies. The goals and results of the…
Retreating glacier presents landslide threat, tsunami risk in Alaskan fjord
Using NASA satellite imagery and software processing approaches, a group of geoscientists has discovered a landslide-generated tsunami threat in Barry Arm, Alaska, that will likely affect tourists and locals in the surrounding area in the next 20 years. The Barry…
NIST designs a prototype fuel gauge for orbit
Liquids aren’t as well behaved in space as they are on Earth. Inside a spacecraft, microgravity allows liquids to freely slosh and float about. This behavior has made fuel quantity in satellites difficult to pin down, but a new prototype…
Smart hyperspectral imaging solutions for new era in Earth and planetary observations
Academy of Finland grants €1.2 million to space researchers
Galaxies have gotten hotter as they’ve gotten older
Study of 10 billion years of microwaves reveals a warming predicted by dark matter theory
SwRI scientist studies tiny craters on Bennu boulders to understand asteroid’s age
Scientists inferred Bennu’s sojourn in the inner Solar System at 1.75 million years
NASA deems SwRI-developed satellites healthy, extends CYGNSS mission
Hurricane wind monitoring mission will continue through 2023
Has the hidden matter of the universe been discovered?
Astrophysicists consider that around 40% of the ordinary matter that makes up stars, planets and galaxies remains undetected, concealed in the form of a hot gas in the complexe cosmic web. Today, scientists at the Institut d’Astrophysique Spatiale (CNRS/Université Paris-Saclay)…
Monitoring open-cast mines better than before
New radar satellites allow observation in almost real time
Tel Aviv University builds and plans to launch a small satellite into orbit
The nanosatellite, entirely designed and assembled on the University campus, will measure cosmic radiation around the earth
Streetlights contribute less to nighttime light emissions in cities than expected
The combination of smart city lighting and satellite imagery allows measurements of the contribution of street lights to urban lighting for the first time, and gives new hints for how to fight light pollution
Asteroid Ryugu shaken by Hayabusa2’s impactor
The artificial impactor disturbed boulders within a 30m radius from the center of the impact crater- providing important insight into asteroids’ resurfacing processes
Tiny moon shadows may harbor hidden stores of ice
Hidden pockets of water could be much more common on the surface of the moon than scientists once suspected, according to new research led by the University of Colorado Boulder. In some cases, these tiny patches of ice might exist…
OSIRIS-REx TAGs surface of asteroid Bennu
Captured on Oct. 20, 2020 during the OSIRIS-REx mission’s Touch-And-Go (TAG) sample collection event, this series of images shows the SamCam imager’s field of view as the NASA spacecraft approaches and touches down on asteroid Bennu’s surface, over 200 million…
The Milky Way galaxy has a clumpy halo
The Milky Way galaxy is in the recycling business. University of Iowa astronomers have determined our galaxy is surrounded by a clumpy halo of hot gases that is continually being supplied with material ejected by birthing or dying stars. This…
NASA supercomputing study breaks ground for tree mapping, carbon research
Scientists from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and international collaborators demonstrated a new method for mapping the location and size of trees growing outside of forests, discovering billions of trees in arid and semi-arid regions and laying…