A couple months ago, NASA witnessed the largest impact on the Moon in 8 years:
“On March 17, 2013, an object about the size of a small boulder hit the lunar surface in Mare Imbrium,” said Bill Cooke of NASA’s Meteoroid Environment Office. “It exploded in a flash nearly 10 times as bright as anything we’ve ever seen before.”
The [...]
New Scientist has more on the possible discovery of two cosmic neutrinos near the South Pole:
In June last year the IceCube neutrino telescope at the South Pole reported the sighting of two candidate neutrinos, found somewhat by accident as the team was combing through the data. Bert and Ernie (YT: Bert and Ernie Cookies in Bed), as they [...]
New Scientist reports on the Kepler space telescope’s latest discovery: a pair of neighboring planets that could both support life – within easy reach of each other:
Though there’s a huge distinction between being life-friendly and actually hosting life, the existence of side-by-side habitable worlds raises the possibility of aliens who are one step ahead of earthlings and have [...]
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SOURCE: Based on “Super-dense celestial bodies could be a new kind of planet,” Nature, 13 March 2013, as used in the post “Super-dense… *things*… are a new kind of planet.”
ABSTRACT: How could one resist wandering ice giants? Bodies that have been through something so [...]
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Space Daily enthuses over a strange formation snapped by Hubble – a deep-space V made by two galaxies, overlapping like enormous wings in space:
This large “flying V” is actually two distinct objects – a pair of interacting galaxies known as IC 2184. Both the galaxies are seen almost edge-on in the large, faint northern constellation of Camelopardalis (The [...]
You may have heard about this by now, but a 10-ton chunk of space rock slammed into the atmosphere over Chelyabinsk, Russia, and exploded, RT and dozens of other outlets have reported. The resulting blast was strong enough to injure 100s and shatter windows for miles:
15:01 GMT: Around 1,000 people have sustained injuries in Chelyabinsk due to the [...]
CNet reports on NASA researchers who may have snapped the first pictures of a new black hole being born:
Caught on film by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, the “remnant,” or W49B, is seen as a vibrant swirl of blues, greens, yellows, and pinks. As seen from Earth, it is about 1,000-years-old and is located roughly 26,000 light years [...]
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