Dan Brandon
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Apr 05
NASA – Hubble Breaks Record in Search for Farthest Supernova
Credit: NASA, ESA, A. Riess (STScI and JHU), and D. Jones and S. Rodney (JHU) NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has found the farthest supernova so far of the type used to measure cosmic distances. Supernova UDS10Wil, nicknamed SN Wilson after American President Woodrow Wilson, exploded more than 10 billion years ago. SN Wilson belongs to …
Apr 05
NASA – Gravity-Bending Find Leads to Kepler Meeting Einstein
NASA’s Kepler space telescope has witnessed the effects of a dead star bending the light of its companion star. The findings are among the first detection of this phenomenon — a result of Einstein’s general theory of relativity — in binary, or double, star systems. The dead star, called a white dwarf, is the …
Apr 04
Used Parachute on Mars Flaps in the Wind
This sequence of seven images from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE)camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows wind-caused changes in the parachute of NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft as the chute lay on the Martian ground during months after its use in safe landing of the Curiosity rover. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona …
