The Sky Tonight

March 21, 2013

NASA denies report that Voyager left solar system
Washington (AFP) March 20, 2013
The US space agency on Wednesday denied a claim made in a scientific study that its Voyager 1 spacecraft had left the solar system, describing the report as "premature." Scientists are eagerly awaiting signs that the craft, which was launched in 1977 on a mission to study planets, has become the first man-made object to leave the boundaries of our solar system. A scientific paper that purported to describe this departure appeared on the American Geophysical Union's web site. It said Voyager ... read more

Previous Issues

Mar 20

Mar 19

Mar 18

Mar 15

Mar 14

Herschel Discovers Some of the Youngest Stars Ever Seen Astronomers have found some of the youngest stars ever seen thanks to the Herschel space observatory, a European Space Agency mission with important NASA contributions. Observations from NASA' ... more		Famous Supernova Reveals Clues About Crucial Cosmic Distance Markers A new study using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory points to the origin of a famous supernova. This supernova, discovered in 1604 by Johannes Kepler, belongs to an important class of objec ... more		Antarctic and Arctic Insects Use Different Genetic Mechanisms to Cope With Lack of Water Although they live in similarly extreme ecosystems at opposite ends of the world, Antarctic insects appear to employ entirely different methods at the genetic level to cope with extremely dry condit ... more
				NASA's LRO Sees GRAIL's Explosive Farewell Many spacecraft just fade away, drifting silently through space after their mission is over, but not GRAIL. NASA's twin GRAIL (Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory) spacecraft went out in a blaz ... more		Amazon's Bezos recovers Apollo 11 engines Amazon founder Jeff Bezos claimed success Wednesday in his mission to recover Apollo 11 moon mission engines that plunged into the ocean decades ago. ... more

CubeSats, SmallSats and MicroSats

Goldstone Radar Snags Images of Asteroid 2013 ET A sequence of radar images of asteroid 2013 ET was obtained on March 10, 2013, by NASA scientists using the 230-foot (70-meter) Deep Space Network antenna at Goldstone, Calif., when the asteroid was ... more		Leaping Lunar Dust Electrically charged lunar dust near shadowed craters can get lofted above the surface and jump over the shadowed region, bouncing back and forth between sunlit areas on opposite sides, according to ... more		Revolutionising the Skies: How Helsing's CA-1 Europa Drone Could Transform Autonomous Warfare Lockheed Martin Sikorsky unveils scalable Nomad drone family for autonomous long-range missions Firefly Aerospace to Acquire SciTec in $855M Deal Expanding National Security Portfolio		Hubble Gazes on One Ring to Rule Them All Galaxies can take many forms - elliptical blobs, swirling spiral arms, bulges, and disks are all known components of the wide range of galaxies we have observed using telescopes like the NASA/ESA Hu ... more
				MESSENGER Completes Its First Extended Mission at Mercury On March 17, 2013, MESSENGER successfully completed its year-long first extended mission in orbit about Mercury, building on the groundbreaking scientific results from its earlier primary mission. ... more		Astronomers Detect Water in Atmosphere of Distant Planet A team of international scientists using the W. M. Keck Observatory has made the most detailed examination yet of the atmosphere of a Jupiter-size planet beyond our Solar System. According to ... more

Solar systems for home and business installations

CubeSats, SmallSats and MicroSats

Tempur-Pedic Mattress Comparison & Memory Foam Mattress Review

Witnessing starbursts in young galaxies On March 13, it was announced the most vigorous bursts of star birth in the cosmos took place much earlier than previously thought - results now published in a set of papers in Nature and the Astrop ... more		Building the Massive Simulation Sets Essential to Planck Results To make the most precise measurement yet of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) - the remnant radiation from the big bang - the European Space Agency's (ESA's) Planck satellite mission has been co ... more		Deep-sea mining poses new threat to sharks, rays and ghost sharks Hydropower emerges as Southeast Asia's hidden force in driving down carbon emissions An Aussie tycoon bets billions on cleaning up iron ore giant		Mission to Ganymede more tricky than expected Russia's proposed landing mission to Ganymede was discussed extensively last week at an international meeting hosted by the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The mission t ... more
				'Hot Spots' Ride a Merry-Go-Round on Jupiter In the swirling canopy of Jupiter's atmosphere, cloudless patches are so exceptional that the big ones get the special name "hot spots." Exactly how these clearings form and why they're only found n ... more		Earth will drown in garbage Man-made garbage cluttering from near space is a very intensive process. Therefore, it may happen that within the coming 20 years safe near-Earth orbits which it would be possible to use will become ... more

'Vulcan' wins Pluto moon name vote

Public to vote on names for Pluto moons

The PI's Perspective: The Seven-Year Itch

Antarctic and Arctic Insects Use Different Genetic Mechanisms to Cope With Lack of Water

'Bizarre Bacteria' in Lake Vostok Study Likely a Contaminant

Home toxic home

Astronomers Detect Water in Atmosphere of Distant Planet

Distant planetary system is a super-sized solar system

Water signature in distant planet shows clues to its formation

NASA's next Mars mission invites public to come aboard

Panorama From NASA Mars Rover Shows Mount Sharp

Opportunity Departing South Soon

	Water signature in distant planet shows clues to its formation A team of international scientists including a Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory astrophysicist has made the most detailed examination yet of the atmosphere of a Jupiter-size like planet beyond ... more		Earth-Directed Coronal Mass Ejection From the Sun On March 15, 2013, at 2:54 a.m. EDT, the sun erupted with an Earth-directed coronal mass ejection (CME), a solar phenomenon that can send billions of tons of solar particles into space and can reach ... more		Sunset Comet March 15, 2013: For a comet, visiting the sun is risky business. Fierce solar heat vaporizes gases long frozen in the fragile nucleus, breaking up some comets and completely destroying others. ... more		Distant planetary system is a super-sized solar system A team of astronomers, including Quinn Konopacky of the Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Toronto, has made the most detailed examination yet of the atmosphere of a Jupi ... more

Renewables overtake coal but growth slows: reports

OpenAI's Fidji Simo says AI investment frenzy 'new normal,' not bubble

Tokyo stocks hit new record as markets extend global rally

NASA's Swift, Chandra Explore a Youthful 'Star Wreck'		Scientists probe 'hot spots' on Jupiter		'Bizarre Bacteria' in Lake Vostok Study Likely a Contaminant		Analysis brings Higgs confirmation closer		Russian meteor million of years old
China sets moon mission re-entry test		Fastest camera may film atomic motion		Bursts of Star Formation in the Early Universe		ALMA exposes hidden star factories in the early universe		Extremely rare triple quasar found

Earth-sized planets in habitable zones are more common than previously thought

Astronomers Observe Planets Around Another Star Like Never Before

ALMA rewrites history of Universe's stellar baby boom

'Nuisance' data lead to surprising star-birth discovery

The Great Exoplanet Debate

Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project Seeks Public Support To Retrieve Apollo Era Moon Images

Herschel gets to the bottom of black hole jets

ALMA finds 'monster' starburst galaxies in the early universe

Southampton scientist investigates Russian meteor

Soccer Balls in Interstellar Space

Early Universe bred 'starburst' mega-galaxies: study

Long Awaited, Comet PanSTARRS Now Glows in the Twilight

Home toxic home

Lunar impacts created seas of molten rock

The mercury rises for BepiColombo

Dispute over Antarctic 'unidentified' life

Astronomers Conduct First Remote Reconnaissance of Another Solar System

Distance to nearest galaxy measured

Planetary Data System Releases MESSENGER Data from Third Mercury Solar Day

Comet PANSTARRS Rises to the Occasion Mid-March

Free Newsletters - Space - Defense - Environment - Energy

Buy Advertising

Media Advertising Kit

Editorial & Other Enquiries

Privacy statement

The contents herein, unless otherwise known to be public domain, are Copyright 1995-2013 - SpaceDaily. AFP and UPI Wire Stories are copyright Agence France-Presse and United Press International. ESA Portal Reports are copyright European Space Agency. All NASA sourced material is public domain. Additional copyrights may apply in whole or part to other bona fide parties. Advertising does not imply endorsement, agreement or approval of any opinions, statements or information provided by SpaceDaily on any web page published or hosted by SpaceDaily. Privacy statement