AAJ !added this to CONCEPT ! SPACE ! TECH . . .Solar System Single neutron star merger supplied half the Solar System’s plutoniumArs Technica - Chris Lee Half of naturally occurring plutonium on Earth from single neutron star merger. We are all, as Carl Sagan said, star-dust. You might think that since …
ALena.kadded this to NASA, Space & Earth's CoreSpace Links Between Core Collapse Supernovae and Star Formation Establishedxplorewith.me When massive stars accumulate more iron that they can hold, they explode in what is called a core-collapse supernova, also known as Type II …
Alan Nishiharaadded this to Alan Nishihara's Flipboard MagazineHubble Space Telescope The universe is expanding faster than we thoughtfuturity.org - Chanapa Tantibanchachai-Johns Hopkins New measurements from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope confirm that the universe is expanding about 9 percent faster than expected based on its …
Forbesadded this to TechnologyHydrogen Rare Supernova Could Solve The Mystery Of How White Dwarfs Violently ExplodeForbes - Brid-Aine ParnellA newly spotted supernova drenched in hydrogen could offer proof for the binary-system theory of Type Ia supernovae. Although supernovas are so brilliant that they can be seen far across the Universe,
rye_breadadded this to Space / Earth Particles China’s mountain observatory begins hunt for origins of cosmic raysnature.com - David Cyranoski The Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory is now operational. China’s search for the origins of high-energy cosmic rays — particles that shower …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoMauna Kea Your Views for May 8hawaiitribune-herald.com - www.hawaiitribune-herald.com I take issue with the recent letter of Tomas Belsky and Moanike‘ala Akaka regarding their comments on the scientific importance of the Thirty Meter …
Chi Chiadded this to WOW, MAN!Space The World’s Strongest Laser is About to Simulate a Supernovafuturism.com - Dan Robitzski The world’s most powerful laser is scheduled for a slate of experiments next year. The laser, in Romania, managed to fire at 10 petawatts — that’s …
Jackie Seaquistadded this to Soul CandyFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoNebulas 2019 May 7 - The Great Nebula in Carinanasa.gov - Robert Nemiroff & Jerry Bonnell The Great Nebula in Carina Image Credit & Copyright: Dieter Willasch (Astro-Cabinet) Explanation: What's happening in the center of the Carina Nebula? …
Daily Mirroradded this to Daily MirrorSpace Scientists reveal why supermassive stars live fast and die youngmirror.co.uk - Tom Wilkinson, Shivali Best These stars, also known as blue supergiants, have relatively short lifespans before they explode into supernovae, making them difficult to study It’s …
ALena.kadded this to NASA, Space & Earth's CoreHelium How is it possible that the universe was made from a single explosion, the Big Bang?finefinders.org The term “Big Bang” conjures the image of an explosion at the beginning of the universe. But how did the entire universe grow from one bang? This …
Professor Futon Spooninadded this to These Are A Few Of Our Favorite ThingsGeek Scientists Locate Neutron Star Collision That Could Have Created Our Solar System's PlutoniumGizmodo - Ryan F. Mandelbaum In 2017, observatories around the world observed a high-energy collision between a pair of dense objects, each slightly more massive than the Sun but …
Space We Are Stardustamnh.org - www.amnh.org Every atom of oxygen in our lungs, of carbon in our muscles, of calcium in our bones, of iron in our blood - was created inside a star before Earth …
Dark Energy Viewpoint: Dark Energy Faces Multiple Probesaps.org - Nikhil Padmanabhan, Department of Physics and Department of Astronomy, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA The Dark Energy Survey has combined its analysis of four cosmological observables to constrain the properties of dark energy—paving the way for …
TTail -w euleradded this to ES0terikFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoAlbert Einstein ASTRONOMY: Cosmic Motion Revealedsciencemag.org Astronomers peered deep into the universe and found that it is flying apart ever faster, suggesting that Einstein was right when he posited a …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoXinhua New measurements give more certainty to universe expansion - Xinhuaxinhuanet.com - www.xinhuanet.com WASHINGTON, April 25 (Xinhua) -- NASA's Hubble Space Telescope confirmed that the Universe is expanding about nine percent faster than expected, …
atomicqadded this to Weird ReadingsHubble Space Telescope Hubble hints today's universe expands faster than it did in the pastastronomy.com The universe is currently expanding 9% faster than the early universe, which is forcing astronomers to reconsider some fundamental aspects of the …
Guernsey Amateur astronomer wins NASA contest - with picture from her Guernsey back gardenyahoo.com - Connor Parker Amateur astronomer Jean Dean proved she’s a real star photographer - by winning a NASA competition from her back garden. Jean, 60, submitted her image …
ALena.kadded this to NASA, Space & Earth's CoreNASA These Scary Things in Space Will Haunt Your Dreamsfloridatime.org - By floridatime The hand might look like an X-ray from the doctor’s office, but it is actually a cloud of material ejected from a star that exploded. NASA’s NuSTAR …
Chi Chiadded this to WOW, MAN!Universe The Weirdest Stars in the Universe: The strangest stellar phenomena known to sciencefinefinders.org There are billions of trillions of stars spattered across a vast universe, most of which we will never be able to see. Of the ones we can, many are …
ALena.kadded this to NASA, Space & Earth's CoreUniverse 8 Truly Terrifying Things In Outer Spacefloridatime.org - By floridatime Outer space is utterly massive. It is so massive, in fact, that it is incomprehensible to the human brain. And when you have something that massive, …
Shane Leschasinadded this to esotericaScience For the first time, astronomers see the birth of a neutron star binary systemSYFY WIRE - Phil Plait A brief and rapidly fading blip of light from a distant galaxy has given astronomers a glimpse into a never-before-seen event: The birth of a binary …
Mashable Indiaadded this to SCIENCECubeSats Team Led By Indian Origin Researcher Has Been Selected By NASA For Future CubeSat MissionMashable - Aakash JhaveriSpace exploration is no longer as expensive as it used to be, and the democratisation of it has to play a big role in it. NASA has often held competitions to crowdsource ideas and technology for future
Amjad Obeidatadded this to Brain CandyLIGO physcis connectphysicsworld.com From the APS April Meeting in Denver, Colorado The April Meeting of the American Physical Society kicked off today with about 1600 particle, nuclear …
SSalekadded this to UNIVERSEHelium Where do all the elements come from?bigthink.com - Matt Davis • Where does the aluminum foil in your kitchen come from? It's mined from the earth, of course, but before how did it get there? • All of the elements in …
The Sunadded this to Science newsJocelyn Bell Burnell What is a black hole made of, who discovered them and when was the first picture released?thesun.co.uk - Jon Rogers BLACK holes were initially the preserve of maths and physics experts or even sci-fi writers but now the first photograph of one has been …
Galaxies Frontiers Lecture: The Golden Age of Star Formationamnh.org - www.amnh.org Join Astrophysics Curator Mordecai-Mark Mac Low on a journey from the birth of the very first stars to the formation of our own Sun and solar system …
Planets A dead planet is orbiting a dead sun in a distant dead solar systemnewscientist.com - By Yvaine Ye A piece of a planet that survived the cataclysmic explosion of its star has been spotted orbiting the stellar corpse. This gives us a glimpse of what …
ALena.kadded this to NASA, Space & Earth's CoreBIGBANG 10 Fleeting Cosmic Events We’ve Been Lucky Enough To Witnessfloridatime.org - By floridatime Just like a photographer getting that lucky shot, astronomers sometimes look in the right spot at the right time at the right wavelength to find …
rye_breadadded this to Space / Earth Space There's a Ticking Time Bomb in the Constellation of Orion... - Out Therediscovermagazine.com Of the two, Betelgeuse is more intriguing. It is somewhat larger, more massive, more menacing. Really, it’s huge–see above. It has inspired a lot of …
SYFY WIREPlay buttonGalaxies Facing the incomprehensible beauty of M 61SYFY WIRE - Phil Plait Messier 61 is a galaxy that’s got it all. I mean, c’mon. <ticks off fingers> Face-on spiral, sits in the nearest galaxy cluster to us, tons of …
