Could Extreme Life Thrive on Jupiter's Io? The Volcanic Epicenter of the Solar System & 5 new articles... Io, the innermost of Jupiter's large satellites and the most volcanically active body in the solar system, with plumes of matter rising up to 186 miles (300 km) above the surface is considered a prime candidate as a hotspot for...  |
Scientists working with new data from NASA's Cassini, Galileo and New Horizons missions have traced telltale ripples in the rings of Saturn and Jupiter back to collisions with Shoemaker-Levy 9 fragments (below) dating back more than 10 years ago. The...  |
This stunning new image of Messier 107 -- one of 150 globular clusters that orbit the Milky Way --was captured by the Wide Field Imager on the 2.2-metre telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile. Messier 107, also known...  |
The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) is a multinational science project to build the world's largest and most sensitive radio telescope that hopes to answer some of the most enduring mysteries of the Universe, including dark energy, general relativity in extreme...  |
Looking like an image out of Will Wright's video game, Spore, M 27, or NGC 6853 is a planetary nebula in the constellation Vulpecula, at a distance of about 1,360 light years. Its central star, a white dwarf, is larger...  |
What we learned from our April Fool's Day post - Epic Discovery: China's National Radio-Astronomy Observatory Announces Monitoring of 'Dark' Satellite in Orbit Around Saturn --"Transmitting the Universal Genetic Code" - was that many of our visitors were profoundly disappointed...  |
Using stop-gap measures, engineers are attempting to plug up highly radioactive water that has been pouring into the ocean which appears to be coming from the damaged No. 2 reactor at Fukushima Daiichi, which contains one million Becquerels per liter... Provided by The Daily Galaxy  |
lunes, 4 de abril de 2011
Could Extreme Life Thrive on Jupiter's Io? The Volcanic Epicenter of the Solar System & 5 new articles...
