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Astronomy News & Research
An international team of astronomers have reported the first scientific results from the Karoo Array Telescope in South Africa, the pathfinder radio telescope for the $3 billion global Square Kilometre Array project.
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 | A new window into the nature of the universe may be possible with a device proposed by scientists at the University of Nevada, Reno and Stanford University that would detect elusive gravity waves from the other end of the cosmos. Their paper describing the device and process was published in the prestigious physics journal Physical Review Letters. ...> Full Article |
 | In a dark, starless patch of intergalactic space, astronomers have discovered a never-before-seen cluster of hydrogen clouds strewn between two nearby galaxies, Andromeda (M31) and Triangulum (M33). The researchers speculate that these rarefied blobs of gas -- each about as massive as a dwarf galaxy -- condensed out of a vast and as-yet undetected reservoir of hot, ionized gas, which could have accompanied an otherwise invisible band of dark matter. ...> Full Article |
 | Much like the inside of an operating room, in the clean room at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD, engineers worked meticulously to implant part of the eyes of the James Webb Space Telescope. They scrubbed up and suited up to perform one of the most delicate performances of their lives. That part of the eyes, the MIRI, or Mid-Infrared Instrument, will glimpse the formation of galaxies and see deeper into the universe than ever before. ...> Full Article |
Revised forecasting shows the previously reported incoming solar storm caused by sunspot 1748, which initially impacted the Earth yesterday, is expected to engulf us with another more powerful storm, which was likely from the 2nd ,3rd & 4th solar flares that sunspot 1748 hurled at us.
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 | On 5:24 a.m. EDT on May 17, 2013, the sun erupted with an Earth-directed coronal mass ejection or CME, a solar phenomenon that can send billions of tons of solar particles into space that can reach Earth one to three days later and affect electronic systems in satellites and on the ground. ...> Full Article |
 | The intense gravity of a supermassive black hole can be tapped to produce immense power in the form of jets moving at millions of miles per hour. A composite image shows this happening in the galaxy known as 4C+29.30 where X-rays from Chandra have been combined with optical and radio data. ...> Full Article |
 | This dramatic new image of cosmic clouds in the constellation of Orion reveals what seems to be a fiery ribbon in the sky. This orange glow represents faint light coming from grains of cold interstellar dust, at wavelengths too long for human eyes to see. It was observed by the ESO-operated Atacama Pathfinder Experiment in Chile. ...> Full Article |
 | Taking before and after pictures of the Martian terrain, researchers with the UA-led HiRISE camera have identified nearly 250 fresh impact craters on the Red Planet. The results provide scientists with a better yardstick to estimate how frequently craters are blasted on Mars, allowing them to assess recently formed features with greater accuracy. ...> Full Article |
 | Solar activity continued on May 14, 2013, as the sun emitted a fourth X-class flare from its upper left limb, peaking at 9:48 p.m. EDT. ...> Full Article |
Our latest report from the NOAA shows a 40% Chance of a Major-severe Geomagnetic Storm, which is expected to peak in 24 hours, and has brought up many interesting discussions. The staff at AstronomyReport.com entertained the idea of determining the worst possible outcome from the known set of current criteria. These aren't predictions of what is going to happen, only what may, in the most extreme circumstances, happen.
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The NOAA has issued an alert that the K-index of 4 threshold had been reached. This is a minor storm, but may herald a larger storm in its wake.
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 | NOAA just released a revised Space Weather Forecast. They are confident in there 2nd revision enough to basically reprint it. The incoming storm, which is already inprogress, will peak in approximately 24hrs. ...> Full Article |
 | In fossil remnants of bacteria, researchers of the Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM), found a radioactive iron isotope that they trace back to a supernova in our cosmic neighborhood. This is the first proven biological signature of a starburst. An age determination showed that the supernova must have occurred about 2.2 million years ago, roughly around the time when the modern human developed. ...> Full Article |
 | Revised forecasting shows the previously reported incoming solar storm caused by sunspot 1748 has a better chance of hitting us, but it's expected arrival has been pushed out a couple days. ...> Full Article |
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