05 January 2016
High-Energy X-rays show Andromeda Galaxy in a different light
... play a crucial role in heating of the intergalactic gas at very early times in the universe, around the cosmic dawn," said Ann Hornschemeier of NASA Goddard, the principal investigator of the NuSTAR Andromeda studies. Andromeda, also known...
30 March 2016
Have astronomers found the signatures of the very first black holes formed through the collapse of gas clouds?
... two cameras on board the Hubble Space Telescope. It is designed to focus on two critical epochs in cosmic evolution, “Cosmic Dawn", less than 1 billion years after the Big Bang and "Cosmic High Noon", 2-4 billion years after...
25 April 2016
Near-Earth asteroid population smaller than thought
... estimates, so around 900 ± 10 NEAs. The research, by Pasquale Tricarico, a senior scientist at PSI and a participating scientist on the Dawn mission for both Vesta and Ceres, also suggests that the albedo of asteroids studied to date, in the...
10 August 2016
Dellingr CubeSat Begins Environmental Testing
... particles, ionized by incoming solar radiation and magnetospheric particle precipitation. Named after the Norse god of dawn, Dellingr is barely bigger than a cereal box and is capable of carrying three payloads – a miniaturized mass spectrometer...
30 December 2016
NEOWISE spots two new objects heading our way
... of a comet as it nears the Sun. Discovered a month earlier, C/2016 U1 NEOWISE will be in the southeastern sky shortly before dawn as seen from the northern hemisphere during the first week of 2017 and according to Paul Chodas, manager...
17 April 2017
April 19th to be an exciting day for stargazers as an asteroid and a comet pass close to Earth
... by flying by that day at a distance of 175 million kilometres. Also known as the C/2011 L4, the comet is expected to be visible at dawn with binoculars. It was discovered in 2011 using the Pan-STARRS telescope in Hawaii and has a nucleus of about...
