The Sky Tonight

June 05, 2013

Earth's Milky Way neighborhood gets more respect
Indianapolis IN (SPX) Jun 05, 2013
Our Solar System's Milky Way neighborhood just went upscale. We reside between two major spiral arms of our home galaxy, in a structure called the Local Arm. New research using the ultra-sharp radio vision of the National Science Foundation's Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) indicates that the Local Arm, previously thought to be only a small spur, instead is much more like the adjacent major arms, and is likely a significant branch of one of them. "Our new evidence suggests that the Local Arm shoul ... read more

Previous Issues

Jun 04

Jun 03

May 31

May 30

May 29

Rare Stellar Alignment Offers Opportunity To Hunt For Planets NASA's Hubble Space Telescope will have two opportunities in the next few years to hunt for Earth-sized planets around the red dwarf Proxima Centauri. The opportunities will occur in October 2 ... more		Sunrise 2: A Journey To The Active Sun After two months of preparations in Kiruna in the north of Sweden, the balloon-borne solar observatory Sunrise is ready for its next flight: only a last ground-based rehearsal is still necessary. As ... more		New Camera At WIYN Images An Asteroid With A Long Tail Using the new wide-field camera at the WIYN 3.5-meter telescope, astronomers have found that the peculiar asteroid P/2010 A2's tail is much longer than previously supposed. The tail is about a milli ... more
				Kepler Provides Insights Into Unusual Dwarf Star Astronomer John Gizis of the University of Delaware, working with data obtained by the Kepler mission, is studying a highly unusual dwarf star and its powerful flares that may hold clues to the like ... more		Galactic Knee and Extragalactic Ankle It is obvious from the data of the KASCADE-Grande experiment at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) that the so-called "knee" of the cosmic rays, a bend in the energy spectrum at high energi ... more

CubeSats, SmallSats and MicroSats

Lightest exoplanet imaged so far? Although nearly a thousand exoplanets have been detected indirectly - most using the radial velocity or transit methods - and many more candidates await confirmation, only a dozen exoplanets have be ... more		Galaxy In Its Death Throes May Hold Clues To Birth Of Some Dwarfs A bright dwarf galaxy relatively close to Earth's Milky Way and trailing fireballs is the first clear example of a galaxy in the act of dying, scientists argue in new research. The work marks ... more		Maintaining US space dominance requires rapid and reliable delivery of new systems Shield or Spark? The U.S. Golden Dome and the New Missile Arms Race Starcloud partners with Mission Space to protect orbital datacenters with real time space weather intelligence		Astronomers call our location in Milky Way an 'upscale' neighborhood Astronomers studying the Milky Way say the solar system is in a more upscale and important neighborhood of the galaxy than previously thought. ... more
				A 2015 Rendezvous With Dwarf Planet Ceres Traveling from one alien world to another, Dawn is reliably powering its way through the main asteroid belt with its ion propulsion system. Vesta, the fascinating and complex protoplanet it explored ... more		Leicester Astronomers Help in Discovery of Neutron Star Slowdown University of Leicester scientists involved in international discovery of neutron star "anti-glitch" using NASA's Swift satellite. University of Leicester astronomers have contributed to an internat ... more

Solar systems for home and business installations

Tempur-Pedic Mattress Comparison & Memory Foam Mattress Review

"Population Census" of Galaxies Buried in Dust A research team led by Bunyo Hatsukade, a postdoc researcher, and Kouji Ohta, a professor, both from the Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, revealed that approximately 80% of the unidenti ... more		Origin of the S-Star Cluster at the Galactic Center Scientists Fabio Antonini, of the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, and David Merritt, of the Rochester Institute of Technology, have developed a new theory that explains the orbits o ... more		Vast reserves, but little to drink: Tajikistan's water struggles Year after northern Nigeria floods, survivors left high and dry Africa's path to low-carbon food security		In feat, telescope directly spots lightweight exoplanet Breaking new ground in the detection of planets beyond our solar system, European astronomers on Monday said they had recorded the most lightweight world to be discovered so far through direct observation. ... more
				Music of the Spheres: Star Songs Plato, the Greek philosopher and mathematician, described music and astronomy as "sister sciences" that both encompass harmonious motions, whether of instrument strings or celestial objects. T ... more		Scouting for Not-So-Distant Worlds After it blasted off into space in 2009, NASA's Kepler Space Telescope sniffed out thousands of potential planets around other stars, simply by watching for the dips in starlight as planets pass ove ... more

Planning Accelerates For Pluto Encounter

'Vulcan' wins Pluto moon name vote

Public to vote on names for Pluto moons

Thermal limit for animal life redefined by first lab study of deep-sea vent worms

Scientists Find Possible Solution to an Ancient Enigma

Arctic bacteria found living in Mars-like environment

In feat, telescope directly spots lightweight exoplanet

Scouting for Not-So-Distant Worlds

Rare Stellar Alignment Offers Opportunity To Hunt For Planets

Leicester Scientist Helps Discover Ancient Streambed On Mars

Mars Curiosity Rover Provides Strong Evidence for Flowing Water

War Of The Worlds: Looking Back on the Martian Apocalypse

	Exploring How Black Holes Become Supermassive Rock stars live fast, die young and end their days self-destructively. University of Alberta postdoctoral fellow Jeanette Gladstone says, surprisingly, some stars live the same way. While most live ... more		New mathematical model links space-time theories Researchers at the University of Southampton have taken a significant step in a project to unravel the secrets of the structure of our Universe. Professor Kostas Skenderis, Chair in Mathematic ... more		Ancient Egyptians accessorized with meteorites Researchers at The Open University (OU) and The University of Manchester have found conclusive proof that Ancient Egyptians used meteorites to make symbolic accessories. The evidence comes fro ... more		A Hidden Population of Exotic Neutron Stars Magnetars - the dense remains of dead stars that erupt sporadically with bursts of high-energy radiation - are some of the most extreme objects known in the Universe. A major campaign using NASA's C ... more

China sends 11th group of internet satellites into orbit for global constellation

NASA ISRO radar satellite beams first Earth images from space

NRL coronagraph on NOAA SWFO L1 will enhance space weather forecasts

Magnetic monopoles erase data		Scientists capture first images of molecules before and after reaction		NASA IRIS: Improving Our View Of the Sun		Large asteroid completes Earth flyby		When Young White Dwarfs Do Not Fit The Mold
NASA's Swift Reveals New Phenomenon in a Neutron Star		Hubble reveals the Ring Nebula's true shape		Low-sodium 'diet' key to a stellar old age		Super-dense star is first ever found suddenly slowing its spin		New technique can track solar storms as they head toward Earth

New Images of Comet ISON Hurtling Toward the Sun

NASA Radar Reveals Asteroid Has Its Own Moon

Low sodium diet key to old age for stars

NASA's GRAIL Mission Solves Mystery of Moon's Surface Gravity

More precision from less predictability: A new quantum trade-off

Coupled particles cross energy wall

Cassini Finds Hints of Activity at Saturn Moon Dione

NASA's WISE Mission Finds Lost Asteroid Family Members

Thermal limit for animal life redefined by first lab study of deep-sea vent worms

Hubble Sees a Swirl of Star Formation

Detection of the cosmic gamma ray horizon: Measures all the light in the universe since the Big Bang

Moon dust samples missing for 40 years found in Calif. warehouse

Just how secure is quantum cryptography

Unusual minerals in moon craters may have been delivered from space

Einstein's 'spooky action' common in large quantum systems

How do cold ions slide?

Scientists Find Possible Solution to an Ancient Enigma

Big Weather on Hot Jupiters

Accurate distance measurement resolves major astronomical mystery

A Hidden Population of Exotic Neutron Stars

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