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...
August 2019
Reinventing the space museum
... becomes less didactic and more intuitive. Beneath The Surface, by Dan Goods, an installation about Jupiter using a cloud and invisible lights. Space as a platform The goal is to make space research popular, as opposed to just making it ‘attractive...
05 September 2016
Surprises for Jupiter as Juno sends back its first images
... was successfully conducted on 27th August, when Juno cruised 4,200 kilometres (2,500 miles) above Jupiter's swirling clouds. "First glimpse of Jupiter's north pole, and it looks like nothing we have seen or imagined before," said Scott...
