Wednesday, 23 May, 2012

Uses of infrared radiation in cars, astronomy and meteorology.

Mars Polar Orbiter: Lost in space. What else goes wrong in the great blue yonder, and what could we do to prevent more problems?

X-ray astronomers will study black holes, neutron stars and dark matter with the orbiting Chandra telescope. Like explosions? Then you gotta love X-ray astro!

New searches are finding lots of asteroids. None of them are aimed at us — yet. How much damage have asteroids done in the past?

Bright color, shape both suggest that water ran down 2 gullies on Mars in the past 7 years. Is there also water ice on our own moon?

New, large radio telescope gets better view of the universe. Want to tune in?

The discovery of a planet that could resemble Jupiter in its size and orbit is focusing attention on this ageless question: are we alone in the universe?

At the South Pole, giant telescope searches for elusive neutrinos, hoping to find evidence of huge explosions in the distant universe. In neutrino astronomy, ice is definitely nice!