02 March 2018
Light from the Universe’s first stars detected
...hydrogen atoms. These atoms also began to absorb surrounding CMB photons causing a small dip in its intensity, a feature that...that background radiation levels were significantly hotter than the photons of the CMB. One striking possibility is that dark...
20 March 2020
Missing particle a major blow for "Theory of Everything"
...-low-mass particles is that they can convert into a photon (packets of light) when they pass through a magnetic field. The... reverse might also be true in that photons may also be converted into axions under certain conditions. How ...
10 August 2021
NASA-funded commercial Moon mission to launch from New Zealand
... on an Electron rocket and deploying from Rocket Lab’s Photon spacecraft platform, CAPSTONE is a 25 kilogram (55-pound satellite... mission is the first time Rocket Lab will use its Photon spacecraft platform as a trans-lunar injection stage to place ...
03 November 2021
Astronomers spot the most distant detection of water in a star-forming galaxy
... is what is fuelling the frenzied star formation. In turn, UV photons emitted from the stars is being absorbed by the whopping amounts of ...in the galaxy and re-emits it as far-infrared photons, Jarugula says. “This further excites the water molecules,...
June 2015
The real Interstellar: space travel theories from Tsiolkovsky to wormholes
...Interstellar flight, J. Brit. Int. Soc., 1952.V.11. Pp.149-167 3: E. Zenger. Towards the mechanics of photon rockets. Moscow: Innostranaya Literatura. 1958. P. 142. 4: Project Daedalus: Demonstrating the Engineering Feasibility of Interstellar Travel...
October 2015
Taking AIM with ESA: proposing the first visit to a binary asteroid system
.... Indeed, this might be the origin of many binary asteroid systems, which form 15% of the known total. And photon pressure on an irregular asteroid body can induce rotational torque – known as the ‘Yarkovsky/YORP effect’. The micro...
