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 Louisville KY (SPX) Jul 31, 2009 
Saturn is rotating five minutes faster than previously thought, a fact that sheds new light on the planet's composition.
Wave patterns in Saturn's clouds show that scientists have been using the wrong rotation rate for the planet, says Timothy Dowling, a planetary atmospheres researcher at the University of Louisville in Louisville, Ky., who helped make the discovery. An article on the ... read more 
Boston MA (SPX) Jul 31, 2009A study published this week in the journal Nature offers an explanation for the origin of dwarf spheroidal galaxies. The research may settle an outstanding puzzle in understanding galaxy formation. Dwarf spheroidal galaxies are small and very faint, containing few stars relative to their total mass. They appear to be made mostly of dark matter - a mysterious substance detectable only by it ... more
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Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jul 30, 2009The Hinode satellite observing our sun captured images of the moon traversing the face of the sun during a solar eclipse this week. On Wednesday, July 22, 2009, a total eclipse of the Sun was visible from within a narrow corridor that traverses half of Earth. The path of the Moon's umbral shadow began in India and crossed through Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Myanmar and China. After ... more  
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Jul 30, 2009At the most recent NASA Astrobiology Science Conference, a panel of scientists discussed different types of planets where we might find alien life. In the fifth segment of this series, the panelists address questions from the audience about the search for life on Mars and elsewhere. Tori Hoehler: I think the question of manned exploration crystallizes around Mars. That's the one ... more 
Bonn, Germany (SPX) Jul 30, 2009An international team of astronomers, led by Keiichi Ohnaka at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy (MPIfR) in Bonn, has taken the sharpest view of a dying mammoth star ever made. For the first time they could show, how the gas is moving in different areas over the surface of a distant star. This was made possible by combining three 1.8 m telescopes as an interferometer, giving the ... more |
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San Marcos TX (SPX) Jul 28, 2009Seven members of the Texas State University-San Marcos Chemistry Club flew an electrochemistry experiment aboard the NASA microgravity aircraft as part of NASA's Reduced Gravity Student Flight Opportunities Program in June. With more than 60 applicants from universities all over the nation, Texas State was one of 13 schools selected to fly. The competition accommodates up to 72 teams per ... more 
Paris, France (ESA) Jul 28, 2009A team of researchers working with data from ESA's Integral gamma-ray observatory has disproved theories that some form of dark matter explains mysterious radiation in the Milky Way. That this radiation exists has been known since the 1970s, and several theories have been proposed to explain it. Integral's unprecedented spectral and spatial resolution showed that it strongly peaks towards ... more  
Bozeman MT (SPX) Jul 27, 2009Montana State University scientists are involved in a new space mission to figure out how energy is transferred through the sun's atmosphere. As a partner on the IRIS team headed by Lockheed Martin, MSU will receive about $3 million to design an optical system for a telescope that could be launched on a NASA rocket in 2012, said solar physicist Charles Kankelborg. If Lockheed Martin agrees ... more |
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