First Images of an Actual Black Hole Coming Soon!
An international collaboration of scientists who are with the Event Horizon Telescope, an Earth size telescope that are set at array sites around the globe has a goal of capturing the first direct images of a black hole. The images will be reported on shipment of hard drives from the South Pole they are now busily […]
Fast Radio Bursts Mystery Unfolds
January 10, 2018 Washington DC At the winter meeting of the American Astronomical Society, Astronomers reported on their recent studies of a mysterious source of fast radio bursts from a source three billion light-years away, known as FRB 121102. According to the scientists, the discovery suggests that the strange source is in the close vicinity of a massive […]
Electric-Blue Clouds Over Antarctica
There’s an electric blue glow in the skies above Antarctica. The strange glow is coming from noctilucent clouds. That’s according to recent images from NASA’s AIM spacecraft (Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere), which monitors these clouds for the whole Earth. The season for night-shining clouds in the Southern Hemisphere is November to April, so they […]
What is a Snowflake?
A snowflake is a single ice crystal that has achieved a sufficient size, and may have amalgamated with others, then falls through the Earth’s atmosphere as snow. Each flake nucleates around a dust particle in supersaturated air masses by attracting supercooled cloud water droplets, which freeze and accrete in crystal form. Complex shapes emerge as the flake moves through differing temperature and humidity zones in the atmosphere, such that individual […]
Alien Megastructures?
A Possible Answer to the Tabby Star Mystery.
Sikorsky S-92® Featured in New Science Channel Series “Mega Machines”
STRATFORD, Conn., Jan. 2, 2018 — The S-92® helicopter produced by Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company (NYSE: LMT), takes center stage in the debut of the new Science Channel series “Mega Machines.” This debut episode airs Thursday, Jan. 4, at 10 p.m. EST/PST on the Science Channel. The engineering-focused show highlights the robust design and reliability […]
SUPERMOON January 1, 2018
First Supermoon of the new year is slated as the largest in 2018. I caught it at moonrise.
BUBBLING RED GIANT
Recently, astronomers have seen giant bubbles churning on the surface of a star beyond our solar system. This is a first in observing our interstellar neighbors. The bubbles are so huge individually, by comparison, that they would extend from our sun to Venus. These astronomers used the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO’s) Very Large Telescope to make […]
A Super Lunar New Year
First Super Moon of 2018!
2017 Arctic Report Card
Now in it’s twelfth year, the 2017 Arctic Report Card was released December 12, 2017 at the annual American Geophysical Union fall meeting in New Orleans. The NOAA-sponsored peer-reviewed report brings together the work of 85 scientists from 12 nations. The report shows the warming trend that’s transforming the Arctic region is persisting. The […]