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...
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...
