Coronal mass ejections are regular space weather events involving huge, fast-moving expulsions of plasma from the Sun's surface. They're routinely observed by a bevy of telescopes, and recently, Solar Orbiter has imaged its first stellar burps.
New Perspectives of Old Worlds | National Air and Space Museum
The upcoming Kenneth C. Griffin Exploring the Planets Gallery at the National Air and Space Museum will give visitors a new perspective on the many worlds within our solar system, which then can aide our understanding of the many worlds being discovered around other stars. Spacecraft sent throughout the solar system have given humanity its first close-up look at the diverse worlds tied to the Sun.
Rendering of a portion inside the new Kenneth C. Griffin Exploring the Planets Gallery. (Haley Sharpe Design)
To Mars and beyond: China's space missions - The Hindu
This artist's rendering provided to China's Xinhua News Agency on Aug. 23, 2016, by the lunar probe and space project center of Chinese State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense, shows a concept design for the Chinese Mars rover and lander. | Photo Credit: AP
China's probe to Mars touched down on the Red Planet on Saturday to deploy its Zhurong rover – a history-making feat for a nation on its first-ever Martian mission.
Students to Sign and Speak to Astronauts in Orbit | SpaceRef - Your Space Reference
NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Thomas Pesquet will answer prerecorded video questions collected by SciAccess, which works to promote disability inclusion in astronomy and STEM, and the Ohio State University Department of Astronomy. SciAccess and Ohio State have partnered to create Zenith, a mentorship program for blind high school students who are passionate about space.
The call is designed to promote inclusion in space and announce Mission: AstroAccess, the newest SciAccess project, which aims to pave the way for space explorers with disabilities. The Zenith scholars, and students and teachers from schools serving learners across America who are deaf or blind, have submitted questions for the call.
The fight that encapsulates the GOP's struggle is happening in Arizona, not Washington - The
One of the subjects that comes up in introductory philosophy classes is something called "Russell's teapot."
It derives from an argument made by the philosopher Bertrand Russell. Were he to say that there's a tiny teapot orbiting the sun — Russell, obviously, was British — a teapot too small to be seen by telescopes, it would be difficult or impossible to prove him wrong. But that doesn't mean that the default assumption should be that the teapot exists. It's not up to other people to prove Russell wrong; it's up to him to offer credible evidence that the teapot exists before he's taken seriously.
New evidence of how and when the Milky Way came together: Aging individual stars helped date an
New research provides the best evidence to date into the timing of how our early Milky Way came together, including the merger with a key satellite galaxy.
Using relatively new methods in astronomy, the researchers were able to identify the most precise ages currently possible for a sample of about a hundred red giant stars in the galaxy.
With this and other data, the researchers were able to show what was happening when the Milky Way merged with an orbiting satellite galaxy, known as Gaia-Enceladus, about 10 billion years ago.
My favourite planet: The quiet awe of Installation 04, AKA the original Halo • Eurogamer.net
This week, while a lot of you will be (re)exploring the galaxy of the original Mass Effect trilogy, we thought it would be fun to revisit some of our own favourite video game planets. First up, Oli remembers the glory of Halo. Halo's a planet right? It isn't? Oh well, nobody said this stuff was simple - just ask Pluto.
But also, it's really, really cool. This is the science angle, the engineering angle. It's a ringworld, more or less as posited by the science-fiction author Larry Niven - a giant, engineered ring in space that is inhabited on its inner surface, where the centrifugal force of the ring's rotation creates a gravity-like effect.
Space debris: How the Kessler syndrome threatens spaceflight - Big Think
Since 1957, the world's space agencies have been polluting the space above us with countless pieces of junk, threatening our technological infrastructure and ability to venture deeper into space.
Today, the space above Earth is the world's "largest garbage dump," according to NASA . It's littered with 8,000 tons of human-made junk, called space debris, left by space agencies over the past six decades.
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