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...
27 October 2016
Rare newly forming triple star system observed by astronomers
... is considered a main driving force. Stars initially form from a cloud of interstellar gas that is collapsing under its own gravity and, ... in their arms to gather speed, the spin from the cloud causes a disk to form as the material spins faster and...
December 2014
Rosetta revelations: the fabric of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
... ratio than the comet, as is the case with, for example, Oort cloud comets (twice the terrestrial value), then we have to conclude that Oort cloud comets have brought, if any at all, only a very small fraction of the...
June 2015
Preventing pilot spatial disorientation
... returning back to base. He and his wingman flew into some clouds and Jerry lost sight of the horizon. Despite being a veteran ...radio. “Where are you headed, lead?” They broke through the clouds and he pulled up. At that moment, Jerry realised he had ...
October 2015
Copernicus, ESA’s most ambitious Earth Observation programme
... weather forecast models. This will be achieved by global measurements of the vertical structure and horizontal distribution of cloud and aerosol fields together with outgoing radiation. The payload comprises two active instruments: a high-resolution...
March 2016
Searching for water in the Solar System
...Jupiter Trojan asteroids (located along Jupiter’s orbit, but organised in clouds leading and trailing Jupiter by 60 degrees) has the potential to... frontier of the outer Solar System The Trojan clouds are located in gravity wells that captured about ...
