Would that prove life exists there? Not necessarily, says a new study. The research team performed the simulation experiments in a specially designed Planetary HAZE ( PHAZER ) chamber in the lab of Sarah Hörst, assistant professor of Earth and…
Stellar Science
-
-
Outer space
Many Planets Are Known To Exist Beyond Our Solar System
by George Cronk December 31, 2018Using data from the Hubble Space Telescope, a few years ago the UNIGE astronomers discovered a warm Neptune-sized planet which was losing its atmosphere. The two planets are roughly 2.3 million miles ( 3.7 million km ) from their star-one-tenth…
-
Outer space
This Occurs As Sunlight Travels Through The Solar System
by George Cronk December 30, 2018By the time New Horizons travels the remaining 80 million miles and reaches Ultima Thule on January 1, it will be more than 1 billion miles beyond Pluto. “It’s really a puzzle”, New Horizons principal investigator Alan Stern, of the…
-
Outer space
New Horizons | Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
by George Cronk December 30, 2018New Horizons will make its closest approach in the wee hours of Jan. 1 – 12:33 a. m. EST. Closest approach will bring the spacecraft within 2,200 miles ( 3,500 kilometers ) of Ultima Thule. Our team worked hard to…
-
A Chinese space probe is moving into position to land on the dark side of the moon for the first. It has a different composition than sites on the near side, where previous missions have landed. The spacecraft landed close…
-
Physics and Astronomy
What About Dark Energy, Vacuum Energy, Or A Cosmological Constant?
by George Cronk December 29, 2018In their article, the scientists propose a new model with dark energy and our universe riding on an expanding bubble in an extra dimension. So, one idea for the dark energy is that it is a modern version of the…