by rmil2k | Nov 29, 2023 | News
A new search for dark matter has turned up empty handed — but, in a silver lining, the effort provided important limits that will help future experiments narrow down the hunt for this elusive substance.Most astronomers believe that dark matter accounts for 85 percent...
by rmil2k | Nov 28, 2023 | News
Blue-green Uranus may not look like much through a telescope, but you can see its small disk at magnifications of 100x and more. Even this close-up look from the Voyager 2 spacecraft fails to reveal much detail. Credit: NASA/JPL. Uranus, the seventh planet from the...
by rmil2k | Nov 28, 2023 | News
I’m sure many readers of Universe Today are like me, fans of the science fiction genre. From the light sabres of Star Wars to the neuralyzer of Men in Black, science fiction has crazy inventions aplenty and once science fiction writers dream it, scientists and...
by rmil2k | Nov 28, 2023 | News
This new Picture of the Month from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope reveals intricate details of the Herbig Haro object 797 (HH 797). Herbig-Haro objects are luminous regions surrounding newborn stars (known as protostars), and are formed when stellar winds...
by rmil2k | Nov 28, 2023 | News
SpaceX plans to add yet more satellites to its ever-growing Starlink internet megaconstellation on Monday night (Nov. 27).A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 23 Starlink spacecraft is scheduled to lift off from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on...
