April 2025
Racing to the Moon
... has more ships than any Western rival. China’s Air Force operates fourth-generation fighter jets, is deploying fifth-generation jets which may be equal to Western kit and has flying prototypes of possible sixth-generation fighters...
20 April 2017
ALMA research team captures first clear image of accretion disk around a star
... matter. The image clearly shows that the disk is, indeed, spinning. Jet and disk in the HH 212 protostellar system: (a) A composite image of the jet, produced by combining images from different telescopes. The orange image around the...
07 July 2017
Unexpected large methanol find near Enceladus
...the south pole on Enceladus were shooting geyser-like supersonic jets of water vapour, other gases, and ice particles ...in the Solar System with ongoing deep-seated geological activity. The jets of water obviously need to come from somewhere, so it has...
06 November 2017
Enceladus more active than previously thought
... to explain the transport of hydrothermal products from the core to the plume sources and a mechanism to fuel the jets has so far eluded scientists, as an abnormally high heat power (greater than 20 billion watts) is required. Enceladus is thought...
13 April 2018
Air breathing rocket gets significant funding boost
...of engine that is unique in delivering the fuel efficiency of a jet engine with the power and high speed ability of a rocket. ...capable of Mach 5.4 in air-breathing mode, compared with a jet engine that can only reach Mach 3 – three times the speed...
13 July 2018
Neutrino discovery helps resolve a century-old riddle
...that has pinned down the location of a steam of neutrinos pouring out from a blazer; a powerful, energetic jet at the heart of an active galactic nucleus surrounding a supermassive black hole. Blazers are particularly bright by astronomical standards...
