• Colbert Redux

    Updated: 2012-11-30 20:15:17
    We are still in shakedown mode here at Discover Blogs, although hopefully things are mostly working well. One change is that from now on people will have to register to leave comments. Maybe that's for the best? Let's see how it goes, at any rate. Last night I had the privilege of once again appearing on the Colbert Report to talk with our nation's leading pundit about the frontiers of modern science. I can't seem to embed the video (shakedown, remember?), but here's the clip. I'm not sure yo

  • Familiar Sci-Fi Faces Pitch NASA Spinoffs

    Updated: 2012-11-30 20:01:01
    Spinoffs have never been the primary reason for space exploration, but as NASA has done things that have never been done before, space-derived products and technologies have been developed, producing some side benefits. Some of these little side benefits have ended up saving lives and changing life on Earth for the better. NASA has recently [...]

  • Brown Dwarfs Might Host Planets Too

    Updated: 2012-11-30 14:06:35
    This image shows the brown dwarf ISO-Oph 102, or Rho-Oph 102, in the Rho Ophiuchi star-forming region. Its position is marked by the crosshairs. This visible-light view was created from images forming part of the Digitized Sky Survey 2. Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/Digitized Sky Survey 2. Acknowledgement: Davide De Martin Brown dwarfs inhabit a kind of [...]

  • Discovery of Mercury Water Ice Points to Complex Organics

    Updated: 2012-11-30 13:30:00
    The Daily Galaxy Great Discoveries Channel : Sci , Space , Tech Follow the Daily Galaxy Image of the Day : Spectacular Jets of a Supermassive Black Hole Dwarf their Galaxy Main Colossal Black Hole Equal to 17 Billion Suns Discovered May Overturn Existing Models November 30, 2012 Discovery of Mercury Water Ice Points to Complex Organics New observations by the MESSENGER spacecraft provide compelling support for the long-held hypothesis that Mercury harbors abundant water ice and other frozen volatile materials in its permanently shadowed polar craters . The new observations have also raised new questions : Do the dark materials in the polar deposits consist mostly of organic compounds What kind of chemical reactions has that material experienced Are there any regions on or within Mercury

  • Image of the Day: Spectacular Jets of a Supermassive Black Hole Dwarf their Galaxy

    Updated: 2012-11-30 12:00:00
    : : The Daily Galaxy Great Discoveries Channel : Sci , Space , Tech Follow the Daily Galaxy Gravity Doesn't Exist Is this Fundamental Phenomenon of the Universe an Illusion Main Discovery of Mercury Water Ice Points to Complex Organics November 30, 2012 Image of the Day : Spectacular Jets of a Supermassive Black Hole Dwarf their Galaxy The innocuous-looking galaxy , elliptical galaxy Hercules A,also known as 3C 348, has long been known as the brightest radio-emitting object in the constellation Hercules . Emitting nearly a billion times more power in radio wavelengths than our Sun , the galaxy is one of the brightest extragalactic radio sources in the entire sky created by spectacular jets powered by the gravitational energy of a super massive black hole in the core of the galaxy . 0160

  • In the Shadow of the Moon: Experience a Solar Eclipse From 37 Kilometers Up

    Updated: 2012-11-30 06:36:34
    The Moon’s shadow stretches over the Earth in this balloon-mounted camera view of the November 14 solar eclipse (Catalin Beldea, Marc Ulieriu, Daniel Toma et. al/Stiinta&Tehnica) On November 14, 2012, tens of thousands of viewers across northeastern Australia got a great view of one of the most awe-inspiring sights in astronomy — a total solar [...]

  • Everybody Chill, NASA Says: No Martian Organics Found

    Updated: 2012-11-29 22:58:10
    Curiosity maneuvering her robotic arm and conducting a close-up examination of windblown ‘Rocknest’ sand dune. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Ken Kremer/Marco Di Lorenzo Relax everyone. There are no little green men or even a hint of organics on Mars… not yet, anyway. “Everybody, chill,” Tweeted the Curiosity rover today. “After careful analysis, there are no Martian organics in [...]

  • A Colorful and Unexpected Reversal at Titan

    Updated: 2012-11-29 22:02:39
    This artist’s impression of Saturn’s moon Titan shows the change in observed atmospheric effects before, during and after equinox in 2009. The Titan globes also provide an impression of the detached haze layer that extends all around the moon (blue). This image was inspired by data from NASA’s Cassini mission. Image Credit: ESA A certain [...]

  • Water Ice and Organics Found at Mercury’s North Pole

    Updated: 2012-11-29 21:55:05
    A radar image of Mercury’s north polar region is shown superposed on a mosaic of MESSENGER images of the same area. All of the larger polar deposits are located on the floors or walls of impact craters. Deposits farther from the pole are seen to be concentrated on the north-facing sides of craters. Credit: NASA/Johns [...]

  • Astronomy 101 Kepler's laws Astronomy Magazine

    Updated: 2012-11-29 21:26:32
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  • Redesign Underway

    Updated: 2012-11-29 20:11:56
    Hello Visual Science Readers, Discovermagazine.com is undergoing a redesign. Apologies for the posts missing images. For now you can see Visual Science photos on the PHOTOS tab at the top of the site. Looking forward to sharing fresh new content with you soon! Thanks for your patience. Cheers, Rebecca Horne

  • Freshening Up

    Updated: 2012-11-29 16:09:12
    You may have noticed that all the Discover blogs now have a new look. (One that is still being tweaked, so don't expect to see my headshot up there for very long.) In fact the whole site has been updated, so there may have been some issues in page loading times and so on. All part of the shakedown process, and hopefully things should be back to normal soon.

  • Saturn's Hexagon --"One of the Most Bizarre Things Seen in the Solar System"

    Updated: 2012-11-29 14:00:00
    The Daily Galaxy Great Discoveries Channel : Sci , Space , Tech Follow the Daily Galaxy Monster Quasar Discovered with Power Outflow 100 Times Milky Way Galaxy Main Gravity Doesn't Exist Is this Fundamental Phenomenon of the Universe an Illusion November 29, 2012 Saturn's Hexagon One of the Most Bizarre Things Seen in the Solar System One of the most bizarre things seen in the solar system is captured in the image above , taken on 27 November by NASA's Cassini spacecraft Cassini's camera zoomed into Saturn's polar hexagon storm's eye from from a distance of about 250,000 miles 400,000 kilometers The spacecraft observed in infrared wavelengths , which can peer through the top layer of clouds to reveal the complex texture beneath . NASA's Cassini spacecraft has been traveling the Saturnian

  • Image of the Day: Titan's Rapidly Morphing Atmosphere

    Updated: 2012-11-29 12:00:00
    : : The Daily Galaxy Great Discoveries Channel : Sci , Space , Tech Follow the Daily Galaxy From the X Files : The Search for Alien Microbes on Earth Main Monster Quasar Discovered with Power Outflow 100 Times Milky Way Galaxy November 29, 2012 Image of the Day : Titan's Rapidly Morphing Atmosphere New data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft links a shift in seasonal sunlight to a wholesale reversal , at unexpected altitudes , in the circulation of the atmosphere of Saturn s moon Titan . At the south pole , the data show definitive evidence for sinking air where it was upwelling earlier in the mission . So the key to circulation in the atmosphere of Saturn's moon Titan turned out to be a certain slant of . light Cassini's up-close observations are likely the only ones we'll have in our

  • Full Moon and Friends, November 28, 2012

    Updated: 2012-11-29 00:33:33
    The full Moon rising with Jupiter and Aldebaran on November 28, 2012 in North Carolina, USA. Credit: Tavi Greiner. The full Moon is a-rising tonight, and it is not alone. There are lots of other bright and beautiful stars and planets out there — some snuggling right up together — and already we’ve got astrophotographers [...]

  • From the X Files: "The Search for Alien Microbes on Earth"

    Updated: 2012-11-28 10:15:00
    : : The Daily Galaxy Great Discoveries Channel : Sci , Space , Tech Follow the Daily Galaxy No Jupiter , No Advanced Life Evolution May be Impossible in Star Systems Without a Giant Planet Main Monster Quasar Discovered with Power Outflow 100 Times Milky Way Galaxy November 28, 2012 From the X Files : The Search for Alien Microbes on Earth Through most of the 20th century , scientists thought that life began with a stupendous chemical fluke , unique in the observable universe . Today , as physicist and astrobiologist Paul Davies of Arizona State University points out it is fashionable to say that life is written into the laws of nature easy to get started and therefore likely to be widespread in the universe . The truth is , nobody has a clue . It could be either extreme , or somewhere in

  • Seeking a few good titles from our readers Local Group Astronomy Astronomy Community

    Updated: 2012-11-27 19:56:04
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  • Seeking a few good titles from our readers Local Group Astronomy Astronomy Community

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  • "No Jupiter, No Advanced Life? " --Evolution May be Impossible in Star Systems Without a Giant Planet

    Updated: 2012-11-27 16:26:59
    , , The Daily Galaxy Great Discoveries Channel : Sci , Space , Tech Follow the Daily Galaxy CERN's Large Hadron Collider Reveals New Type of Matter Main November 27, 2012 No Jupiter , No Advanced Life Evolution May be Impossible in Star Systems Without a Giant Planet What are the implications of a star systems missing a massive gas giant such as our Solar Systems Jupiter it could imply conditions of massive bombardment from comets and asteeoids that would prevent the development of advanced . life The artist's impression below of the debris disc and planets around the star known as Gliese 581, superimposed on Herschel PACS images at 70, 100 and 160 micrometre wavelengths . The line drawing superimposed on the Herschel image gives a schematic representation of the location and orientation

  • Sky Guide 2013 Astronomy Magazine

    Updated: 2012-11-27 00:37:59
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  • Ancient Microbial Life Found Thriving in Permanent Darkness 60 Feet Beneath Antarctica Ice

    Updated: 2012-11-27 00:00:14
    The Daily Galaxy Great Discoveries Channel : Sci , Space , Tech Follow the Daily Galaxy Horsehead Nebula Found to Cloak a Vast Interstellar Chemistry Lab Main November 26, 2012 Ancient Microbial Life Found Thriving in Permanent Darkness 60 Feet Beneath Antarctica Ice A harbinger of life on Jupiter's Europa Ancient microbes have been discovered in bitter-cold brine beneath 60 feet of Antarctic ice , in permanent darkness and subzero temperatures of Antarctica's Lake Vida located in the northernmost of the McMurdo Dry Valleys of East . Antarctica In the current issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Nathaniel Ostrom , Michigan State University zoologist , has co-authored Microbial Life at 13ºC in the Brine of an Ice-Sealed Antarctic Lake . quot Ostrom was part of a team

  • Horsehead Nebula Found to Cloak a Vast Interstellar Chemistry Lab

    Updated: 2012-11-26 16:01:14
    The Daily Galaxy Great Discoveries Channel : Sci , Space , Tech Follow the Daily Galaxy Hubble Captures Gargantuan Cosmic Fossil' Weekend Feature Main November 26, 2012 Horsehead Nebula Found to Cloak a Vast Interstellar Chemistry Lab The spectacular Horsehead Nebula in the Orion constellation is not only a favourite object of astronomy photographers all over the world , but apparently also a cosmic petroleum refinery.What sounds like science fiction is actually reality : using the 30m-telescope of the Institute for Radio Astronomy for astronomical observations in the millimetre range of wavelengths , astronomers have detected , for the first time , the interstellar molecule C3H+ , in our galaxy , which belongs to the hydrocarbon family and is thus part of major energy resources of our

  • "Origin of Life" --Astrobiologists Find Mechanism that May Have Triggered It

    Updated: 2012-11-26 12:28:00
    The Daily Galaxy Great Discoveries Channel : Sci , Space , Tech Follow the Daily Galaxy Hubble Captures Gargantuan Cosmic Fossil' Weekend Feature Main Horsehead Nebula Found to Cloak a Vast Interstellar Chemistry Lab November 26, 2012 Origin of Life Astrobiologists Find Mechanism that May Have Triggered It The question of how life began on a molecular level has been a longstanding problem in science . However , recent mathematical research sheds light on a possible mechanism by which life may have gotten a foothold in the chemical soup that existed on the early Earth Researchers have proposed several competing theories for how life on Earth could have gotten its start , even before the first genes or living cells came to be . Despite differences between various proposed scenarios , one

  • On the road Australia eclipse trip days 6-8 Local Group Astronomy Astronomy Community

    Updated: 2012-11-26 08:30:06
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  • On the road Australia eclipse trip days 6-8 Local Group Astronomy Astronomy Community

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  • Hubble Captures Gargantuan 'Cosmic Fossil'

    Updated: 2012-11-25 18:00:15
    The Daily Galaxy Great Discoveries Channel : Sci , Space , Tech Follow the Daily Galaxy Milky Way's Halo Rife With Ancient Stars Torn from Other Galaxies Weekend Feature Main November 25, 2012 Hubble Captures Gargantuan Cosmic Fossil' Weekend Feature The Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of a galaxy located approximately 320 million light-years away in the constellation of Eridanus the River , which is , most likely , a cosmic fossil the aftermath of an enormous multi-galactic pile-up , where the carnage of collision after collision has built up a brilliant giant elliptical galaxy far outshining typical galaxies Scientists have found that NGC 1132 resides in an enormous halo of dark matter comparable to the amount of dark matter usually found in an entire group of tens or hundreds

  • Weekend Image: "The Aquarius Stream" --Remnant of a Dwarf Galaxy Devoured by the Milky Way

    Updated: 2012-11-23 10:32:00
    : : The Daily Galaxy Great Discoveries Channel : Sci , Space , Tech Follow the Daily Galaxy Has Curiosity' Sniffed Signs of Life NASA Prepares to Release a Big Mars Discovery Main The Missing Neutron Galaxies of the Early Universe Holiday Feature November 23, 2012 Weekend Image : The Aquarius Stream Remnant of a Dwarf Galaxy Devoured by the Milky Way The shredded remains of of one of the estimated seven trillion dwarf galaxies in the observable Universe has been located  buried within our Milky Way Galaxy Some astronomers think that the largest globular cluster in the Milky Way , Omega Centauri might have once been a dwarf galaxy that had its outer stars stripped away . The massive swarm of stars is known as the Aquarius Stream Astronomer Mary Williams , who is working with an

  • Has 'Curiosity' Sniffed Signs of Life? NASA Prepares to Release a Big Mars Discovery

    Updated: 2012-11-22 12:45:58
    The Daily Galaxy Great Discoveries Channel : Sci , Space , Tech Follow the Daily Galaxy Pandora's Cluster The Most Colossal Known Galactic Collision Main November 21, 2012 Has Curiosity' Sniffed Signs of Life NASA Prepares to Release a Big Mars Discovery NASA s John Grotzinger principal investigator for the rover mission , announced in an interview with NPR the Mars' Curiosity rover has made a discovery that is gonna be one for the history books . This data is looking really good , quot he said . Grotzinger told NPR it would be several weeks before NASA would release its discovery . What we doi know is that the discovery was made by SAM , the Sample Analysis at Mars suite of three instruments . The Curiosity chemistry set is equipped to look for compounds of carbon , such as methane as

  • 1st Planet Ever Observed Being Devoured by Its Star System

    Updated: 2012-11-21 16:40:30
    The Daily Galaxy Great Discoveries Channel : Sci , Space , Tech Follow the Daily Galaxy Image of the Day : Searching for Higgs Boson CERN's ATLAS Camera Snaps 40 Million Pictures Per Second Main Pandora's Cluster The Most Colossal Known Galactic Collision November 21, 2012 1st Planet Ever Observed Being Devoured by Its Star System A planet , WASP-12 b a gas giant originally spotted in 2008,is roughly 1.4 times the size of Jupiter and is being consumed by its own star behind a shroud thanks to a magnesium veil absorbing all of certain light wavelengths , according to new observations by the Hubble Space Telescope HST The distance between the star and planet is so small that the planet completes an orbit of its star in just over one Earth day . This proximity has boiled off a superheated gas

  • Find all you need to know about our stellar neighborhood in Explore the Solar System Astronomy Magaz

    Updated: 2012-11-21 05:19:31
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  • ESO hits 50 Local Group Astronomy Astronomy Community

    Updated: 2012-11-20 21:17:38
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  • ESO hits 50 Local Group Astronomy Astronomy Community

    Updated: 2012-11-20 21:17:37
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  • EcoAlert: New Global 'Tipping-Point' Warning System for the Planet

    Updated: 2012-11-20 10:48:00
    : : The Daily Galaxy Great Discoveries Channel : Sci , Space , Tech Follow the Daily Galaxy Strangely Dim Supernova Aborted Death of a White-Dwarf Star Main 1st Image of a Galaxy Bridge Across Millions of Light Years of Intergalactic Space November 20, 2012 EcoAlert : New Global Tipping-Point' Warning System for the Planet There is no centralized system to monitor and report changes in the Earth’s life-support systems So scientists in 77 nations have established the Group on Earth Observations GEO and the Group on Earth Observation Biodiversity Observation Network GEO BON which integrates existing data streams into one platform to provide a global warning system for Earth’s biological and social . systems GEO BON is structured around eight working groups focused on genetics , terrestrial

  • Mars once had water warm enough to sustain life

    Updated: 2012-11-19 22:15:43
    We know that Mars once had lots of water, considered a prerequisite for habitability. What hasn’t been known, however, is just how friendly — or unfriendly — this water might have been to life, as the temperature and chemical conditions of ancient Martian water has remained a complete mystery. A new analysis of Martian meteorites has revealed water temperatures on the Red Planet once ranged between 50°C to 150°C (122°F to 302°F) — temperatures that we know are most certainly hospitable to microbial life.

  • The Arc of Venus -- Reveals Mysteries of Our Sister Planet's Atmosphere

    Updated: 2012-11-19 17:37:01
    The Daily Galaxy Great Discoveries Channel : Sci , Space , Tech Follow the Daily Galaxy Rare Image of a Super-Jupiter Reveals How Planets Form Around Massive Star Systems Main November 19, 2012 The Arc of Venus Reveals Mysteries of Our Sister Planet's Atmosphere The image above shows arc of Venus photographed in 2004 by Riccardo Robitschek and Giovanni Maria Caglieris of Milan , Italy . Backlit by the sun , 0160 Venus's atmosphere refracted sunlight passing through layers of air above the planet's cloudtops , creating an arc of light that touches on some of the deepest mysteries of the second . planet We do not understand why our sister planet's atmosphere evolved to be so different than Earth's , quot explains planetary scientist Thomas Widemann of the  Observatoire de Paris Earth and

  • Rare Image of a "Super-Jupiter" --Reveals How Planets Form Around Massive Star Systems

    Updated: 2012-11-19 16:29:19
    The Daily Galaxy Great Discoveries Channel : Sci , Space , Tech Follow the Daily Galaxy Preventing the Next Easter Island Scientists Pioneer a Technique to Predict Ecosystem Collapse Main The Arc of Venus Reveals Mysteries of Our Sister Planet's Atmosphere November 19, 2012 Rare Image of a Super-Jupiter Reveals How Planets Form Around Massive Star Systems This rare , near infrared image shows a Super-Jupiter object of the κ And κ Kappa Andromedae system a very young star , with an estimated age of 30 million years our Sun for comparison , is around 5 billion years old generated from data collected in July 2012 with the Subaru Telescope in Hawaii . Almost all of the light of the host star , on which the image is centered , has been removed through image processing the host star is covered

  • On the road The Great Australian Dreamtime Eclipse Days 5-7 Dave's Universe Astronomy Astronomy Comm

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  • Astronomy Magazine

    Updated: 2012-11-09 19:26:51
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  • On the road The Great Australian Dreamtime Eclipse Days 1–4 Dave's Universe Astronomy Astronomy Comm

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  • On the road The Great Australian Dreamtime Eclipse Days 1–4 Dave's Universe Astronomy Astronomy Comm

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  • Astronomy Magazine

    Updated: 2012-11-09 19:26:47
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  • The 'Daily Galaxy' Followers Soar Above 230,000!

    Updated: 2012-11-04 18:14:52
    The Daily Galaxy Great Discoveries Channel : Sci , Space , Tech Follow the Daily Galaxy Massive Black Hole Discovered Shaping the Orion Nebula Cluster Main Clues to the Origin of Carbohydrates The Building Blocks of DNA and RNA November 02, 2012 The Daily Galaxy' Twitter Followers Soar Above 225,000 Join the 228,000 Daily Galaxy fans around the world who follow us via their Twitter page . Our followers include many of the planet's leading astronomers and scientists , astronauts , space observatories , news organizations , universities and governmental space organizations such as NASA , JPL , ESO , SETI , 0160 Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics CfA and Royal Astronomy Society members . Follow us daily at  twitter.com dailygalaxy Posted at 01:00 AM Permalink Comments wonder how many

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