Archive for the ‘space’ category: Page 859
Apr 21, 2018
‘It’s about expanding Earth’: could we build cities in space?
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: 3D printing, space
Meet the startup hoping to colonise the final frontier, one zero-gravity 3D printer at a time.
Apr 20, 2018
Jim Bridenstine Confirmed as New Head of NASA
Posted by Michael Lance in category: space
Apr 20, 2018
How to become a space tourist: 8 companies (almost) ready to launch
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: space
And, in addition to these heavy hitters, there are quite a few other companies offering tourists a chance to reach space, too. Some are farther along in development than others, and there are always reasons to be skeptical when talking about space tourism. We’ve seen plenty of similar ventures come and go over the years without making it to space. But we choose to remain optimistic. Here are the most recent commercial space programs that would love to take you out of this world—for a price.
An illustration of what the interior of Orion Span’s Aurora Station might look like.
Apr 18, 2018
Finding lost siblings of the Sun
Posted by Narendra Malewar in categories: biotech/medical, space
UNSW scientists in collaboration with European scientists demonstrated that the “DNA”, or spectra, of more than 340,000 stars in the Milky Way could aid them to search the siblings of the Sun, now scattered across the sky.
Scientists actually are working on project GALAH, the survey observations for the ambitious galactic archaeology project- which launched in late 2013 as part of a quest to uncover the formulation and evolution of galaxies. Scientists gathered the data from HERMES spectrograph at the Australian Astronomical Observatory’s (AAO) 3.9-metre Anglo-Australian Telescope near Coonabarabran in NSW to collect spectra for the 340,000 stars.
The data shows that how the Universe went from having just hydrogen and helium soon after the Big Bang to being loaded with every one of the components show now on Earth that is fundamental forever.
Apr 18, 2018
YC Bio Providing Lab Space for Biotech Startups Working on Aging
Posted by Steve Hill in categories: biotech/medical, life extension, space
Y Combinator announces the first wave of support for biotech startups working on aging.
Earlier this year, the Y Combinator (YC) community showed interest in supporting biotechnology focused on healthspan and age-related disease. The YC community is an influential part of the Bay Area technology-focused industry in California. It was great to hear that it was planning to support biotech startups working on aging through its YC Bio program.
The first area we’re going to focus on is healthspan and age-related disease—we think there’s an enormous opportunity to help people live healthier for longer, and that it could be one of the best ways to address our healthcare crisis.
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Apr 18, 2018
‘Lost in Space’ Writer Reveals Robinsons’ Location: a ‘Goldilocks Planet’
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: space
In the new Netflix series ‘Lost in Space’, the Robinson family land on an unknown planet described as a ‘Goldilocks planet’ by both Maureen Robinson and one of the show’s writers, Burk Sharpless. The term ‘Goldilocks planet’ refers to planets in the ‘habitable zone’ of their solar system.
Apr 16, 2018
NASA training chief claims the first person on Mars should be a woman
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: space
While NASA has had several female astronauts, the space agency is yet to a put a woman on the moon.
To compensate, a training chief at the Johnson Space Centre in Houston claims that the first person on Mars should be a woman.
Speaking to BBC Radio 5’s Anna Foster, Allison McIntyre said: We have female astronauts, but we haven’t put a woman on the Moon yet.
Apr 16, 2018
Huge solar ‘tornadoes’ don’t spin after all, study shows
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: space
Giant plasma “tornadoes” raging across the surface of the sun don’t actually spin like astronomers once thought, new research shows.
Massive solar tornadoes, formally known as tornado prominences, which were first observed about 100 years ago, seemed to bear a striking resemblance to tornadoes on Earth. These gigantic structures — each one several times the size of Earth — are made of hot, flowing gas and tangled magnetic field lines, ultimately driven by nuclear reactions in the solar core.
However, using a method known as the Doppler effect, scientists have precisely measured the speed of the moving plasma, as well as its direction, temperature and density, revealing that twisters on the sun do not rotate like earthbound tornadoes do, according to a statement from the European Week of Astronomy and Space Science (EWASS) conference. [Secrets of Sun Super-Tornadoes Revealed (Gallery)].
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Apr 16, 2018
The Planet That Took Us Beyond the Solar System
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: space
An unusual discovery in the 1990s paved the way for space telescopes to spot thousands of exoplanets.