18 January 2016
Does a second black hole lurk near the centre of the Milky Way?
... may be lurking in the Milky Way have been uncovered by a team of astronomers who have detected an enigmatic gas cloud, called CO-0.40-0.22, that is observed to have gas with a very wide range of speeds. This wide velocity dispersion is suggestive...
17 May 2019
First science results released on Ultima Thule
... evidence of an atmosphere, or any moons, rings or dust clouds were found orbiting this huge, cold distant relic from the early ...planestimals. This type of process is called a pebble cloud collapse model and Stern and colleagues suggest that Ultima’s...
March 2015
JAXA’s challenge to climate change
... and nighttime. Because of the characteristics of the microwave frequency, AMSR2 can measure sea surface temperature through clouds, which is critical data for maritime forecasting and climate change research. The improved spatial resolution with...
February 2016
Nuclear Flashlamps in Space
...device and its surroundings, creating a rapidly expanding cloud of superhot radioactive plasma. In short: bright ...Belt Objects (EKBOs) known by now. The Oort Cloud is a notionally spherical cloud of small bodies that orbit the Sun within interstellar ...
September 2017
Binary stars and their extraordinary lives
...identify with far-off stars. Often, however, if a gas cloud has sufficient mass and spins rapidly enough, or if it becomes...in gravitational interactions with other young stars in the gas cloud, some stars are gravitationally bound to a companion star ...
November 2018
Monitoring illegal rainforest deforestation
...time of the day there is a high probability of cloud coverage which can jeopardize observations, especially between December and May...world than the present SSO satellites as it better avoids cloud coverage by passing at different times of the day. The...
