09 October 2015
First Cubesat from American Tribal College Sent into Space
... interview. According to a GRACE factsheet, BisonSat will be used to “test and calculate land cover classification, cloud cover, and cloud height measurements” with the help of a light camera. The cubesat’s construction allowed student Ryan Beagles...
02 December 2015
Displaced dusty planet booted out of its birthplace
... formed much like a star, by condensing from its own swirling cloud of gas and dust. However, after a re-analysis of the exiled...“We conducted three tests and found tentative evidence for a dust cloud, but the jury is still out.” If this is indeed ...
02 February 2016
First detected hot corino in Orion sheds light on low-mass star formation processes
... Making stars is a tricky business as a collapsing gas cloud has to compete with many different energetic phenomena whose very nature... gravitational energy released as a giant molecular cloud collapses heats up the material surrounding the developing...
08 June 2016
Long standing initial mass function problem solved
...by the Soviet mathematician Andrey Kolmogorov. We encounter fractal, or self-similar objects on a daily basis. Among others, clouds in Earth's atmosphere, snowflakes and even some fruits and vegetables such as cauliflower or broccoli all have fractal...
