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Oct 27, 2018
Zero Gravity Causes Worrisome Changes In Astronauts’ Brains
Posted by Michael Lance in categories: neuroscience, space
Oct 26, 2018
Astronomers May Have Spotted One of Earth’s Ghostly Dust Moons
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: space
A ghostly dust satellite or two might be orbiting the Earth, according to new research building on a 60-year-old idea.
Massive objects attract one another through the force of gravity. But when you have multiple huge objects with just the right masses, their mutual gravitational field can introduce some anomalies—like gravitational points that can hold things stable. Scientists have found objects orbiting in these “Lagrange points” created by the combined gravity of the Sun and Mars, the Sun and Neptune, and the Sun and Jupiter. Researchers are now reporting evidence of dust clouds, called Kordylewski dust clouds, in the Lagrange points created by the Earth and the Moon.
Oct 26, 2018
There’s a Strange Cloud on Mars Right… — Planetary Landscapes
Posted by Alberto Lao in category: space
There’s a Strange Cloud on Mars Right Now, and It’s Just Hanging Around — For more than a month now, a European orbiter circling Mars has been watching a long, plume-like cloud on the Red Planet. The cloud has remained in place over a mountain called Arsia Mons near the Martian equator since Sept. 13, according to a statement released by the European Space Agency (ESA). But that location is just a coincidence, the agency adds. No volcanic process is producing the cloud — the volcano hasn’t been active in about 50 million years…at: https://www.space.com/42257-strange-mars-cloud-on-mars-phot…
Oct 26, 2018
Uranus Will Be Visible To Everyone In Britain This Evening
Posted by Michael Lance in categories: habitats, space
Oct 26, 2018
Uranus will be visible all over the UK tonight
Posted by Michael Lance in category: space
Oct 26, 2018
Fake Moon Over Chengdu Shows Why China Is Billionaire Powerhouse
Posted by Michael Lance in category: space
Rocket scientists are planning to suspend a man-made moon bright enough to reduce the need for streetlamps.
In the Sichuan city of Chengdu, Chinese rocket scientists are planning to suspend a man-made moon bright enough to reduce the need for streetlamps.
It’s exactly that kind of ingenuity that has helped the world’s most populous nation churn out new billionaires at a prodigious clip, according to John Mathews, head of ultra-high net worth in the Americas for UBS Group AG.
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Oct 25, 2018
Microgravity May Be The Best Place To Grow Human Organs
Posted by Michael Lance in categories: biotech/medical, space
Oct 25, 2018
Robbed of Nobel, Female Physicist Blazed Her Own Amazing Trail: Watch Her Speak Tonight
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: physics, space
Jocelyn Bell Burnell, astrophysicist extraordinaire who helped discover radio pulsars while a graduate student in 1967 (though only her adviser was recognized when the discovery snagged a Nobel Prize in physics in 1974), is getting long-overdue recognition.
Bell Burnell, now a visiting professor of astrophysics at the University of Oxford and chancellor of Scotland’s University of Dundee, was awarded the weighty Breakthrough Prize in physics in September for her pulsar discovery and science leadership.
