May 2017
Humanity is moving towards a new reality
... October 2016 signed an Executive Order that assigned specific authority to NASA, the Department of Defense, the National Science Foundation and the Department of Homeland Security to cope with a major CME event. The recent determination about the...
12 January 2018
Evidence in DES map of small galaxies being eaten by the Milky Way
... most powerful astronomical cameras on Earth. The camera was built and tested at Fermilab and is mounted on the National Science Foundation's 4-meter Blanco telescope, part of the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, a division of NOAO...
12 June 2020
New Horizon breaks record with first interstellar parallax experiment
.... For Wolf 359, the parallax from New Horizon is 16 arcseconds added Lauer, who is based at the National Science Foundation's National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory. “Combine its parallax with that of Proxima and you can locate ...
23 August 2019
Energetic eruption helps astronomers peer deep within Jupiter's atmosphere
... ALMA maps at millimetre wavelengths complement the maps made with the National Science Foundation’s Very Large Array in centimetre wavelengths,” said Bryan Butler of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory. “Both maps probe below the cloud layers...
02 September 2020
Heaviest black hole merger yet is a first for discoveries
... specifically for stellar mergers," says Pedro Marronetti, program director for gravitational physics at the National Science Foundation. "This is of tremendous importance since it showcases the instrument's ability to detect signals from completely...
18 January 2021
New study looks at how to harness energy from a black hole
...Asenjo said. Speaking of Comisso and Asenjo work, Vyacheslav Lukin, a program director at the National Science Foundation, who along with NASA, and Chile’s National Fund for Scientific and Technological Development funded this study, said: “The ideas...
