NASA's SOFIA will likely help solve mysteries about our galaxy - August 27 How were millions of young stars able to form at the center of our Milky Way galaxy in the presence of an enormous black hole with a mass 4 million times that of the sun? This and other important questions may be answered by the NASA mission SOFIA, which is scheduled to make its first scientific measurements in the next few months....Read More
WISE space telescope captures the Unicorn's Rose - August 26 Unicorns and roses are usually the stuff of fairy tales, but a new cosmic image taken by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Explorer (WISE) shows the Rosette nebula located within the constellation Monoceros, or the Unicorn. This flower-shaped nebula, also known by the less romantic name NGC 2237, is a huge star-forming cloud of dust and gas in our Milky Way galaxy. Estimates of the nebula's distance vary from 4,500 to 5,000 light-years away....Read More
Some asteroids live in own little worlds - August 26 While the common perception of asteroids is that they are giant rocks lumbering about in orbit, a new study shows they actually are constantly changing"little worlds"that can give birth to smaller asteroids that split off to start their own lives as they circle around the sun....Read More
