17 December 2018
Innovative mission to view the surface of exoplanets using small sats
... at JPL and Aerospace might one day show us just that as they are working on plans for a solar gravity lens (SGL) – a cluster of small sats which act like a lens to provide up to a 100-billion optical magnification – this...
07 June 2019
First-ever image of cool gas disk surrounding Milky Way's black hole
... that was seen racing around near its event horizon at about 30 percent the speed of light by ESO’s GRAVITY instrument last year. It is estimated that the temperatures reached by this turbulent, spiralling belt of gas can reach...
08 April 2020
NASA funds vast radio telescope concept on far side of the Moon
... system. Turyshev will receive a $2 million grant to further mature the concept and related technologies of his solar gravity lens; a probe located 80.4 billion kilometres (50 billion miles) from Earth that uses multiple small spacecraft and...
January 2017
Mini space station for mice to study effects of reproduction in reduced gravity
...human exploration system designs. Finally, there were several lessons learned from the challenge of achieving artificial gravity in mass constrained mission architectures. Rotation rates and radii of rotation must be set to avoid neuro-vestibular and...
10 July 2017
First glimpse at how gravity effects star formation
... converging on a central hub, have captured the effects of gravity on ammonia gas moving within the cloud to show how the... fragmented into smaller clumps. Under the influence of gravity these smaller clumps become compacted and the compressed gas...
March 2018
Zero gravity and the human heart
... is the same throughout the lungs; the alveolar area expands and gas exchange improves in the absence of gravity. Blood pressure - in space, when gravitational attraction is suppressed, regional differences in blood pressure and venous pressure...
