Space Discoveries
New discoveries in space exploration
Each year there’s evidence that our technologies are advancing at the speed of light, and we discover tons of new things about outer space, develop new exploratory technologies, and even touch down on new planets—and no matter what we keep learning. 2013 was no exception when it came to discovering previously…
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Accomplishments of Galileo
Total Orbits of Jupiter: 34 Notable Accomplishments: Deployed a probe into Jupiter s atmosphere Once launched from the cargo bay of the Space Shuttle Atlantis, Galileo set off first to Venus and then back to Earth, using the planets as a slingshot to Jupiter. This technique is called a gravity assist…
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Sky and Telescope News
So why don t we call these meteors the Swift-Tuttlids ? Great question! It s known instead as the Perseids because the meteors all seem to radiate across the sky from the direction of the constellation Perseus. This apparent point of origin, called the radiant , is actually just a trick of perspective. But you don t need to look at the radiant to spot a Perseid meteor because…
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New research of NASA
A novel and potentially testable theory of how life arose on earth, first advanced more than 25 years ago by Michael Russell, a research scientist in Planetary Chemistry and Astrobiology at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, was further developed in a recent paper published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B (PTRSL-B)—the world s first science journal—by…
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Hubble Telescope News
The Hubble Space Telescope just calculated the distance to the most far-out galaxy ever measured, providing scientists with a look deep into the history of the universe. The far-away galaxy, named GN-z11, existed a mere 400 million years after the Big Bang, or about 13.3 billion years ago. Because the light from such a distant galaxy must travel huge distances to reach Earth…
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Galileo Galilei discoveries
Galileo Galilei is credited with discovering the first four moons of Jupiter. Credit: NASA NEW YORK — In 1610, Galileo Galilei peered through his telescope and discovered four moons orbiting around Jupiter, a breakthrough that helped confirm the heliocentric theory that the Earth revolves around the sun, and not the other way around. To mark the 400th anniversary of Galileo…
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Galileo planet
1609-2009 400th Anniversary of Galileo s Astronomical Discoveries Who was Galileo? Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) was a Tuscan (Italian) astronomer, physicist, mathematician, inventor, and philosopher. He was born in Pisa, and was the oldest of six children in his family. When he was a young man, his father sent him to study medicine at the University of Pisa, but Galileo studied…
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Astronomy scientists names
These two astronomers come in one package, because their main contribution to the astronomical field was a mutual effort. This important contribution was the discovery of the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation or CMB. Basically, the CMB was an aftershock of the explosive birth of the Universe – the Big Bang. This aftershock had been theorized before its discovery by Penzias…
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