by rmil2k | Dec 19, 2023 | News
A group has been formed to study and promote a space-based sunshade to help fend off global climate change. The idea has been discussed for years, but the Planetary Sunshade Foundation is cranking out papers that support the concept and spotlight the practicality of...
by rmil2k | Dec 19, 2023 | News
An end-on view of one of the first full-energy collisions between gold ions at Brookhaven Lab’s Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), as captured by the Solenoidal Tracker At RHIC (STAR) detector. The collisions create a quark-gluon soup that reproduces the...
by rmil2k | Dec 19, 2023 | News
As weird as it might sound, black holes appear to be holograms. In the 1980’s physicist Jacob Bekenstein was able to calculate exactly how much a black hole grew. If you add a single bit of information to a black hole, its surface area increases by exactly one Planck...
by rmil2k | Dec 18, 2023 | News
2023’s highlight was the highly anticipated launch of Juice, Europe’s Jupiter Icy Moon Explorer. The Juice spacecraft was placed on course to Jupiter on the second-to-last Ariane 5 launch vehicle in April. After an eight-year journey, Juice will begin observing the...
by rmil2k | Dec 18, 2023 | News
Three months ago, scientists spotted tiny, short-lived energy jets surfacing from dark regions in the corona, the sun’s outer atmosphere. Upon closer look, these jets appeared as bright flashes everywhere on the sun’s disk. They lasted only 20 to 100...
