by rmil2k | Apr 13, 2024 | News
After a journey lasting about two billion years, photons from an extremely energetic gamma-ray burst (GRB) struck the sensors on the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory and the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope on October 9th, 2022. The GRB lasted seven minutes but was...
by rmil2k | Apr 13, 2024 | News
The missionEquipped with four instruments, the Earth Cloud Aerosol and Radiation Explorer (EarthCARE) satellite mission has been designed to make a range of different measurements that together will shed new light on the role that clouds and aerosols play in...
by rmil2k | Apr 12, 2024 | News
Vulcan, United Launch Alliance’s (ULA) new heavy-lift rocket, was not the result of having to flee an exploding planet, being exposed to gamma rays or even surviving the bite of a radioactive spider, but it does have an origin story compelling enough to warrant...
by rmil2k | Apr 12, 2024 | News
Procyon. Credit: Fred Ringwald. There are many glittering Celebrity Stars in the Hollywood of the heavens, astronomical A Listers who everyone looks up at on every clear night and fawns over. But for every celestial Taylor Swift, Beyonce, or Tom Cruise, there are...
by rmil2k | Apr 12, 2024 | News
The Martian moons Phobos and Deimos are oddballs. While other Solar System moons are round, Mars’ moons are misshapen and lumpy like potatoes. They’re more like asteroids or other small bodies than moons. Because of their odd shapes and unusual compositions,...
