Space News
Where Are All the Aliens?
Universe Today - 21 Jun 2013 01:53
Consider this. The Universe is enormous. There are as many as four-hundred billion stars in our galaxy: the Milky Way. And there are more than one-hundred-and-seventy billion galaxies in the observable Universe. Most of ...
Timelapse: Dark Nights of St. Agnes, Isles of Scilly
Universe Today - 20 Jun 2013 19:47
Photographer Graham Gaunt recently spent a week on the beautiful island of St. Agnes, Isle of Scilly during an unusual stretch of clear weather. "I spent every night awake dragging my gear out at dusk and returning to sl...
Navigating the Solar System Using Pulsars as GPS
Universe Today - 20 Jun 2013 18:19
Picture the scene: It's the not too distant future and humanity has started to construct colonies and habitats all across our solar system. We're gearing up to take that next big step into the unknown - actually leaving ...
Dust In The Wind... Black Hole Style
Universe Today - 20 Jun 2013 16:00
Over the years, researchers have taken myriad observations of black holes and their environs, but now ESO's Very Large Telescope Interferometer is giving us the most detailed look of the dust around a black hole at the c...
Spectacular Billion Pixel Panorama from NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover
Universe Today - 20 Jun 2013 04:48
NASA's newly produced and absolutely spectacular panorama from the Curiosity mega rover offers armchair explorers back on Earth a mammoth 1.3 billion pixels worth of Mars in all its colorful glory. And everyone can move ...