Title: On the possible noble gas deficiency of Pluto's atmosphere Authors: Olivier Mousis, Jonathan I. Lunine, Kathleen E. Mandt, Eric Schindhelm, Harold A. Weaver, S. Alan Stern, J. Hunter Waite, Randy Gladstone, Audrey Moudens We use a statistical-thermodynamic model to investigate the for...
The elliptical galaxy NGC 1132 reveals the final result of what may have been a group of galaxies that merged together in the recent past. Another possibility is that the galaxy formed in isolation as a "lone wolf" in a universe ablaze with galaxy groups and clusters. This image of NGC 1132...
Alaskan volcano erupts for second day For the second straight day, the Alaska Volcano Observatory issued its highest alert level for aviation when a volcano erupted with a towering ash cloud in the Aleutian Islands. Observatory volcanologist Robert McGimsey says Wednesday afternoon's eruptio...
Keeping the rhythm in space Space is an inhospitable environment for the human body but we adapt remarkably well. Within hours, the brain adjusts to the lack of an up or down, as if floating is all it has ever known. Now researchers are learning how our internal clock similarly adjusts to the restricti...
Airlander 10: World's longest aircraft hits highest altitude The world's longest aircraft has reached the highest altitude it has attained so far. Airlander 10 ascended to 3,500ft (1,067m) on it's fourth test flight. Read more
London tower block fire: Flames engulf Grenfell Tower A huge fire has raged through the night at a tower block in Latimer Road, west London, with eyewitnesses claiming people are trapped in their homes. The fire at Grenfell Tower on the Lancaster West Estate was reported at 12:54 BST and about 200 fir...
Ancient bird like 'a kangaroo-sized flying turkey' It has been described as a "giant flying turkey" the size of a grey kangaroo by Australian scientists. It is actually an extinct species of megapode bird - an ancient cousin of the modern Malleefowl, which famously builds mounds of earth and leaf li...
Tributes paid to pioneering Oxford engineer Professor Brian Bellhouse Tributes have been paid to the Oxford engineer and entrepreneur Professor Brian Bellhouse, who has died at the age of 80. Founder of one of the most successful companies ever to be spun out of Oxford, Professor Bellhouse has bee...
British Antarctic Survey at Bluedot Festival 2017 British Antarctic Survey (BAS) is delighted to be participating in this year's Bluedot music festival in Macclesfield 7-9 July. The event, which last year attracted over 20,000 visitors, is billed as an intergalactic festival of music, science...
VST Captures Three-In-One Two of the sky's more famous residents share the stage with a lesser-known neighbour in this enormous new three gigapixel image from ESO's VLT Survey Telescope (VST). On the right lies the faint, glowing cloud of gas called Sharpless 2-54, the iconic Eagle Nebula is in the...
CTA Prototype Telescope, ASTRI, Achieves First Light During the nights of 25 and 26 May, the camera of the ASTRI telescope prototype recorded its first ever Cherenkov light while undergoing testing at the astronomical site of Serra La Nave (Mount Etna) in Sicily managed by INAF-Catania. This come...
Title: A CH star in the globular cluster NGC 6426 Authors: M. Sharina, B. Aringer, E. Davoust, A. Y. Kniazev, C. J. Donzelli We report on the serendipitous discovery of a carbon star near the centre of the low-metallicity globular cluster NGC 6426. We determined its membership and chemical properti...
By means of high-precision timing thanks to pulsars astronomers now know what the solar barycentre is doing with respect to the rest of the cosmos.
And it is not being pulled around by Planet X.
So there is nothing out there within worrying distance.
The astronomers, Nadia Zakams...
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