6 posts tagged “space”

Cost Overruns Threaten NASA's Next-Generation Mars Rover Project [in FoxNews] The $1.5 billion NASA already has sunk into its next Mars mission could be lost in space if Congress decides to cancel the flight due to cost overruns. The space agency could decide as early as Friday whether to cancel, delay or proceed with plans to launch a nuclear-powered, SUV-size Mars Science Laboratory to the red planet...

Galaxy Clusters Have a Mysterious Motion [in PhysOrg] The stars are in motion, and on a much larger scale than can be explained with current theories, according to astronomers at NASA, the University of Hawaii and UC Davis. The finding could improve our understanding of events in the first moments after the birth of the universe. [more]

Black Hole's 'Birth Scream' Heard Across Universe [by Andrea Thompson] Six months ago, satellite telescopes spotted an exceptionally bright burst of energy that would have been the most distant object in the universe ever visible to the naked eye, if anyone had noticed it [more]

Continent-Wide Telescope Brings Galactic Black Hole into Focus

Gains in resolution may provide proof of black hole's existence
By JR Minkel

Astronomers used a "virtual" telescope spanning more than 2,800 miles (4,500 km)  to  home in on Sagittarius A* ("A-star"), the light source believed to mark the location of a black hole four million times as massive as the sun. [more]

WorldScience.net

"As­tro­no­mers are de­vis­ing ways to make maps of the dis­tant plan­ets that are being found out­side our so­lar sys­tem. Re­search­ers an­nounced Wednes­day that they had cre­at­ed the first such map."

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