10 July 2017
First glimpse at how gravity effects star formation
... to form a protostar. Examples of these huge dusty filaments are ubiquitous in the Milky Way, but so far astronomers.... Hence, our results reveal that this type of interstellar filament and hub system represents a privileged location for the formation...
May 2022
Design architecture for 3D printing a lunar habitat
... was manufactured by Ingersoll Machine Tools in the USA and is capable of running along a 30 m bed and extruding printer filament at a rate of 226 kg per hour. This machine created the largest 3D printed structure: 3Dirigo - a full size patrol...
11 October 2017
Have astronomers found the missing mass in the Universe?
... of Edinburgh, whose lead author on the research paper is Anna de Graaff, suggest that their estimated gas density in filaments that stretch as much 15 Megaparsecs long, can account for as much as ∼30 percent of the total baryon content of the...
February 2016
Defending Earth against cosmic hazards
... industry and solar radiation on Earth’s atmosphere - is a form of solar threat, though this is not addressed here. A long filament erupted on the Sun on 31 August 2012 and was imaged by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) Earth is a constantly...
April 2019
On-board propulsion set to drive the smallsat revolution
... is very mature, it remains a challenge to scale these devices down to small sizes. For some propulsion systems a simple filament (which emits electrons when heated) can be adapted for use as a neutraliser, but for other systems, the...
July 2020
Life in the universe – common or not?
... Earth and Sun at the centre surrounded by our Solar System, nearby stars, nearby galaxies, distant galaxies, filaments of early matter, and the cosmic microwave background. We may be the only life in the ‘observable universe’ but...
