27 March 2019
Storm-plagued exoplanet revealed in detail with GRAVITY
... the carbon monoxide from reacting with hydrogen to form methane.” And let’s not forget about the clouds that rain down ingredients which would give you a good facial if whipped up in a storm. “Our observations suggest...
11 March 2020
Ultra-hot exoplanet literally rains iron say astronomers
... to these hot, bloated exoplanets. Another curious condition of these type of planets is that the dayside, which is predicted to be cloud-free and substantially hotter than its nightside, has a different chemistry than its nightside. This dichotomy...
25 September 2020
Salty water vapour provides clues to massive star formation
...have spotted a pair of massive stars growing in a swirling cloud of heated water vapour and sodium chloride molecules – a compound...stars, were detected further out in the star’s natal cloud than anticipated. However closer in, emissions of both sodium...
11 October 2021
Disrupting Earth-bound asteroids with nukes is “very effective”, new study says
...nuclear disruption of the asteroid featured in the team’s simulations. Spheral follows the gravitational evolution of the fragment cloud, accounting for the effects of the fragments on one another as well as the gravitational influence of the sun and...
04 November 2022
NASA’s climate change mineral dust detector
...the-art imaging spectrometer capable of investigating visible and infrared spectra to determine the makeup of mineral dust clouds. It will fill a critical gap in our understanding of Earth’s atmosphere and factors driving climate change,” says Senior...
July 2016
Plasma Crystals - from space research to medicine on Earth and back to space again
... (giant plasma balls), supernovae (exploding plasma clouds), star formation regions (cold partially ionised plasmas... the definition of a plasma as an ‘overall charge-neutral cloud of charged particles’ is retained. Figure 1: Different plasmas found...
