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Dr. Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski Will Change How You Think About Space
The universe is a hologram. At least, that’s one of the central ideas in celestial holography, which is what Dr. Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski works on. She’s the founder and principal investigator of the Celestial Holography Initiative at the Perimeter Institute. The Universe Is a What? Yes, you read that right: The universe might indeed be…
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WVU Team Tackles Radio Interference in Astronomy with NSF Funding
WVU Team Tackles Radio Interference in Astronomy with NSF Funding by Clarence Oxford Los Angeles CA (SPX) Nov 28, 2023 In a significant stride towards enhancing the clarity of astronomical observations, researchers at West Virginia University (WVU) are pioneering methods to combat the pervasive issue of human-made radio frequency interference (RFI). This interference, emanating from…
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UAE university joins China’s moon project after US kills nation’s initial bid
The two sides plan to collaborate and exchange data on lunar science and other issues, and China welcomed all Arab countries to join the project, DSEL said on its official WeChat account on Wednesday. The new partnership brought the total number of members of the China-led ILRS to more than a dozen, as opposed to…
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Brighter Sun
The Sun is getting brighter. Not enough to notice, mind you. In fact, it’ll take more than a hundred thousand human lifetimes to tick up by even one percent. But that gradual change will add up. In a billion years or so, the extra energy should be enough to boil away Earth’s oceans and atmosphere,…
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A tool bag is floating around in Earth’s orbit. Here’s why
Tool bag doesn’t pose a threat to the International Space Station, NASA says Looking into the night sky can be breathtaking and awe-inspiring. There are shooting stars, galaxies being born, solar and lunar eclipses and so many other dazzling cosmic phenomena. Oh, and then there’s a bag of tools. That’s right, since Nov. 1, a tool…
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Mysterious blasts of radiation might stem from our universe’s most extreme stars
New research has revealed that different types of neutron stars, born when massive stars die, behave in a similar way. This might sound like a minor result, but in the grand scheme of things, it’s a finding that further supports the idea that these extreme dead stars — so dense a tablespoon of one equals…
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Mysterious blasts of radiation might stem from our universe’s most extreme stars
New research has revealed that different types of neutron stars, born when massive stars die, behave in a similar way. This might sound like a minor result, but in the grand scheme of things, it’s a finding that further supports the idea that these extreme dead stars — so dense a tablespoon of one equals…
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SwRI-led PUNCH mission advances toward 2025 launch
image: On November 17, 2023, the Polarimeter to UNify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH) mission achieved an important milestone, passing its internal system integration review, clearing the mission to start integrating the four observatories. Three of the four PUNCH spacecraft will include SwRI-developed Wide Field Imagers (pictured) optimized to image the solar wind. The dark…
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SwRI-led PUNCH mission advances toward 2025 launch
image: On November 17, 2023, the Polarimeter to UNify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH) mission achieved an important milestone, passing its internal system integration review, clearing the mission to start integrating the four observatories. Three of the four PUNCH spacecraft will include SwRI-developed Wide Field Imagers (pictured) optimized to image the solar wind. The dark…
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4 of the weirdest objects in space
An image of the area surrounding Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy, in X-ray and infrared light. X-ray: NASA/UMass/D.Wang et al.; IR: NASA/STScI The universe is filled with bizarre objects. Then again, Earth is all we know. So what may seem wild and exotic to us is…