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New Evidence Indicates Auroras Occur Outside Our Solar System
January 21, 2013 — Planetary scientists have found new evidence suggesting auroras – similar to Earth’s Aurora Borealis - occur on bodies outside our solar ... > full story -
Cheating to Create the Perfect Simulation: Physicists on Way to Describing Inside of Neutron Stars
January 17, 2013 — Scientists have succeeded in simulating the strong atomic nuclear interactions to enable its calculability while at the same time preserving the typical characteristics of a neutron ... > full story -
Light from Darkness: Brilliant Stars Emerging from Dusty Stellar Nursery
January 16, 2013 — An evocative new image from the European Southern Observatory shows a dark cloud where new stars are forming, along with a cluster of brilliant stars that have already emerged from their dusty ... > full story -
New Sunspots Producing Space Weather
January 14, 2013 — On Jan. 13, 2013, at 2:24 a.m. EST, the sun erupted with an Earth-directed coronal mass ejection or CME. Not to be confused with a solar flare, a CME is a solar phenomenon that can send solar ... > full story -
Evidence of Asteroid Belt Around Vega
January 8, 2013 — Astronomers have discovered what appears to be a large asteroid belt around the star Vega, the second brightest star in northern night skies. The discovery of an asteroid belt-like band of debris ... > full story -
Cluster Mission Indicates Turbulent Eddies May Warm the Solar Wind
January 8, 2013 — The sun ejects a continuous flow of electrically charged particles and magnetic fields in the form of the solar wind -- and this wind is hotter than it should be. A new study of data obtained by ... > full story -
Space Sailing Soon: A One-Kilometer-Long Electric Sail Tether Produced
January 8, 2013 — An electric sail (ESAIL) produces propulsion power for a spacecraft by utilizing the solar wind. The sail features electrically charged long and thin metal tethers that interact with the solar wind. ... > full story -
Wide Binary Stars Wreak Havoc in Planetary Systems, Astrophysicists Find
January 6, 2013 — Astrophysicists have shown that planetary systems with very distant binary stars are particularly susceptible to violent disruptions, more so than if they had stellar companions with tighter orbits ... > full story -
Carbon in Vesta's Craters: Asteroid Impacts May Have Transferred Carbonaceous Material to Protoplanet and Inner Solar System
January 3, 2013 — The protoplanet Vesta has been witness to an eventful past: images taken by the framing camera onboard NASA's space probe Dawn show two enormous craters in the southern hemisphere. The images were ... > full story -
Astrophysicists Make Stellar Discovery About Galaxies Far, Far Away
January 3, 2013 — Astrophysicists have shed new light on how galaxies formed in the early universe. The discovery suggests that the current model for galaxy formation and evolution needs to be ... > full story
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