U.K.-based aerospace manufacturer Reaction Engines has announced the successful test of its precooler at airflow temperature conditions and confirmed that it can withstand speeds of Mach 5, which is five times the speed of sound. This is a huge milestone toward the development of the SABRE engine, which will revolutionize how we access space, as ...
A team of Clemson University astrophysicists has added a novel approach to quantifying one of the most fundamental laws of the universe wielding state-of-the-art technologies and techniques. In a paper published in The Astrophysical Journal, Clemson scientists Marco Ajello, Abhishek Desai, Lea Marcotulli, and Dieter Hartmann have collaborated with six other scientists around the world ...
Researchers at the University of Iowa report that the spacecraft Voyager 2 has entered the interstellar medium (ISM), the region of space outside the bubble-shaped boundary produced by wind streaming outward from the Sun. Voyager 2 thus becomes the second human-made object to journey out of our Sun’s influence, following Voyager 1’s solar exit in 2012. ...
Exploring the influence of galactic winds from a distant galaxy called Makani, UC San Diego’s Alison Coil, Rhodes College’s David Rupke, and a group of collaborators from around the world made a novel discovery. Published in Nature, their study’s findings provide direct evidence for the first time of the role of galactic winds — ejections of ...
Though it looks like it to us, clouds on Jupiter do not form a flat surface. Some of Jupiter’s clouds rise up above the surrounding cloud tops. The two bright spots in the right-center of this image are much higher than the surrounding clouds. Jupiter’s clouds extend deep into the planet Jupiter’s atmosphere is a ...
Over the past century, human beings have polluted the environment in every way possible. The seas are replete with plastics, the land is contaminated with poisonous pesticides, and the air is filled with harmful gases. We have taken this habit outside of the Earth as well, with humans now polluting space in an increasingly dangerous ...
Dr. Tana Joseph, from the Department of Physics and Astronomy, contributed to a survey of the nearby Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), a nearby dwarf galaxy. Dr. Joseph is the first author of the resultant paper, published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. The researchers discovered two potential new supernova remnants — ...
Most people only ever encounter rubidium as the purple color in fireworks, but the obscure metal has helped two University of Chicago scientists propose a theory of how the Moon may have formed from studying Moon rocks. Conducted in the lab of Prof. Nicolas Dauphas, whose pioneering research studies the isotopic makeup of rocks from Earth ...
Conventional wisdom tells us that large objects appear smaller as they get farther from us, but this fundamental law of classical physics is reversed when we observe the distant universe. Astrophysicists at Kent simulated the development of the biggest objects in the universe to help explain how galaxies and other cosmic bodies were formed. By looking ...
Christina Koch and Jessica Meir, two astronauts from NASA, have become the first in the world to be a part of an all-female spacewalk. The event was originally scheduled seven months back. But since the International Space Station (ISS) only had one medium-sized spacesuit at that time, the walk was abandoned. NASA sent up a ...
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