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X-ray Satellites Monitor the Clashing Winds of a Colossal Binary

The hottest and most massive stars don’t live long enough to disperse throughout the galaxy. Instead, they can be found near the clouds of gas and dust where they formed — and where they will explode as supernovae after a few million years. They huddle in tight clusters with other young stars or in looser [...]

NASA rover, microrover concept models

The Mars Microrover Telecommunications Team focuses on the telecommunications aspects of the Sojourner rover from the Mars Pathfinder Mission. Their website details the wireless radio communications system used. The team also posted some pictures of rover concept vehicles. The primary function of Sojourner was to demonstrate that small rovers can actually operate on Mars. It [...]

Cool Air Traffic Control App!

NASA has released a new educational game with an air traffic control theme for Apple iPhone and iPad devices. The Sector 33 application is designed to challenge students in middle school and above to use basic math and problem-solving skills.An Android version of the app is in development and will be made available in the [...]

Quasicrystals may be from space, brought to earth on meteor

A recent University study found that quasicrystals, a form of rock previously thought not to form in nature, actually originate from outer space. In 2009, quasicrystals were discovered in mineral samples from the Koryak Mountains of eastern Russia, a press release states. This finding by Luca Bindi and his team from the University of Florence, [...]

iPad survives drop from outer space, lands near Area 51

G-Form, a company well known for delivering extreme electronics cases and athletic pads, launched an iPad clad solely in the company’s 6oz Extreme Edge case into outer space and then let it free-fall back to Earth. The video, who some have claimed is a fake, has garnered over 2,000,000 views as of this posting.

Astronaut takes a drink in space with special cup

Wish I could drink like this at school during lunch! Watch this astronaut drink coffee from a special cup. The shape of the cup, which looks like an airplane wing, lets the astronaut take a drink in space. The fluid actually rises up as he drinks from the zero-gravity cup.

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  • The Webb Telescope’s ‘Golden Spider

    The Webb Telescope’s ‘Golden Spider

    What looks like a giant golden spider weaving a web of cables and cords, is actually ground support equipment, including the Optical Telescope Simulator (OSIM), for the James Webb Space Telescope. OSIM’s job is to generate a beam of light just like the one that the real telescope optics will feed into the actual flight [...]

  • The Mysterious Case of the Disappearing Dust

    The Mysterious Case of the Disappearing Dust

    Imagine if the rings of Saturn suddenly disappeared. Astronomers have witnessed the equivalent around a young sun-like star called TYC 8241 2652. Enormous amounts of dust known to circle the star are unexpectedly nowhere to be found. “It’s like the classic magician’s trick: now you see it, now you don’t. Only in this case we’re [...]

  • Black Hole Growth Found to Be Out of Sync

    Black Hole Growth Found to Be Out of Sync

    New evidence from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory challenges prevailing ideas about how black holes grow in the centers of galaxies. Astronomers long have thought that a supermassive black hole and the bulge of stars at the center of its host galaxy grow at the same rate — the bigger the bulge, the bigger the black [...]

  • Astronomers Discover Planetary Odd Couple

    Astronomers Discover Planetary Odd Couple

    Astronomers have discovered a pair of neighboring planets with dissimilar densities orbiting very close to each other. The planets are too close to their star to be in the so-called “habitable zone,” the region in a system where liquid water might exist on the surface, but they have the closest-spaced orbits everconfirmed. The findings are [...]

  • Giant Black Hole Kicked Out of Home Galaxy

    Giant Black Hole Kicked Out of Home Galaxy

    Astronomers have found strong evidence that a massive black hole is being ejected from its host galaxy at a speed of several million miles per hour. New observations from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory suggest that the black hole collided and merged with another black hole and received a powerful recoil kick from gravitational wave radiation. [...]

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