Timelapse Video Illustrates 500,000 Asteroid Discoveries
Posted by admin in Space on 28. Aug, 2010 | 0 Comments
500,000 Asteroids Discovered From 1980 to 2010 In this amazing video of the solar system, the asteroids that were discovered from 1980 to 2010 appear in the sequence as they were discovered. It’s very cool to watch the process of discovery. You can observe patterns, as technological innovations come online and spur new batches of [...]
Mysteriously, Solar Activity Found to Influence Behavior of Radioactive Materials On Earth
Posted by admin in Space on 26. Aug, 2010 | 0 Comments
How’s this for spooky action at a distance? The sun, at 93 million miles away, appears to be influencing the decay of radioactive elements inside the Earth, researchers say. Given what we know about radioactivity and solar neutrinos, this should not happen. It’s so bizarre that a couple scientists at Stanford and Purdue universities believe [...]
Astronomers use giant magnifying lens in space to probe dark energy
Posted by admin in Space on 25. Aug, 2010 | 0 Comments
The Hubble Space Telescope image of the inner region of Abell 1689, an immense cluster of galaxies located 2.2 billion light-years away Dark energy has been described as the greatest puzzle of our universe. This mysterious force, discovered in 1998, is pushing the universe apart at ever-increasing speeds and astronomers have now devised a new [...]
Big Bear Solar Observatory Snaps the Most Detailed Pic of a Sunspot Ever
Posted by admin in Space on 25. Aug, 2010 | 0 Comments
Spotting Sunspots Big Bear Solar Observatory/NJIT Researchers at Big Bear Solar Observatory have tuned their adaptive optics array and achieved first light, capturing this image of a sunspot that is now the most detailed ever captured in visible light. The image was captured with Big Bear’s New Solar Telescope (NST), a brand new instrument (as [...]
Search For Aliens Should Include Intelligent Machines, Says SETI Astronomer
Posted by admin in Space on 24. Aug, 2010 | 0 Comments
Arecibo If we ever find aliens, there’s a good chance they’ll be intelligent machines, not biological systems as we know them. So says a senior SETI astronomer. Writing in the journal Acta Astronautica, Seth Shostak says we ought to turn our attention to galactic centers and hot, young stars — likely areas of interest to [...]
