March 2021
Messier 82’s starburst magnetic highway
... the data as it is received. Field morphology The resulting potential field structure stretches up to 25,000 light-years around Messier 82, over 10 times larger than detected with the HAWC+ measurements alone. These extended magnetic fields help...
27 October 2021
Astronomers may have detected the first planet outside of the Milky Way
... NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory at a x-ray binary known as M51-ULS-1. M51-ULS-1 lies close to the heart of Messier 51 (M51), a spiral galaxy 31 million light years, that is also known as the Whirlpool galaxy. It is one of three external...
January 2022
Revealing the magnetic universe
...far-IR, which is the component seen by HAWC+. The observations of Messier 51, the Whirlpool Galaxy, add a layer of complexity. The ...feedback-dominated early universe. Magnetic fields lines in Messier 82 overlaid on a visible and infrared composite ...
January 2017
Elon Musk and Mars - looking for a snowball effect
... the end of the century. Questions and comments The talk triggered a wave of comment and criticism. Doug Messier and John Logsdon on the internet blog Parabolic Arc saw the SpaceX Mars ships reviving Wernher...
September 2017
Call for Australia to head back into space
...2017) http://www.ucsusa.org/nuclear_weapons_and_global_security/space_weapons/technical_issues/ucs-satellite-database.html. 9 Doug Messier, SpaceX Wants to Launch 12,000 Satellites http://www.parabolicarc.com/2017/03/03/spacex-launch-12000-satellites...
16 February 2018
New study shows Andromeda is not that big after all
... once thought it was and that is contains far less dark matter than previously estimated. Also known as Messier 31 or M31, the Andromeda galaxy is approximately 780 kiloparsecs (2.5 million light years) from Earth, spans approximately 220...
