This Spacecraft Will Detect if Exoplanet Skies are Cloudy, Hazy or Clear
Discover Magazine - Tue 12 Nov 19NASA is adding an instrument to the European Space Agency's ARIEL spacecraft.(Credit: ESA/STFC RAL Space/UCL/Europlanet-Science Office) NASA announced last week that it will contribute to ...
This spacecraft will detect if exoplanet skies are cloudy, hazy, or clear, Astronomy.com - Tue 12 Nov 19Near-Earth asteroid pairs offer clues to composition, dynamics and environmental conditions of early solar system
Phys.org - Mon 11 Nov 19Near Earth Objects (NEOs) are small solar system bodies whose orbits sometimes bring them close to the Earth, making them potential collision threats. NEOs also offer clues to the composition, ...
NASA instrument to probe planet clouds on European mission
Phys.org - Fri 8 Nov 19NASA will contribute an instrument to a European space mission that will explore the atmospheres of hundreds of planets orbiting stars beyond our Sun, or exoplanets, for the first time.
NASA Instrument to Probe Planet Clouds on European Mission, Astrobiology Magazine - Fri 8 Nov 19NASA instrument to probe planet clouds on European mission, SpaceDaily - Sun 10 Nov 19
Dusty star-forming galaxy MAMBO-9 investigated in detail
Phys.org - Wed 6 Nov 19Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), an international team of astronomers has conducted detailed observations of the dusty star-forming galaxy MMJ100026.36+021527.9, ...
NASA's CASE instrument to probe planet clouds on European mission
optics.org - Wed 13 Nov 19Scheduled for launch in 2028, CASE will be sensitive to NIR, to complement ARIEL's other IR spectrometer.
Daniel Gruen awarded 2019 Panofsky Fellowship at SLAC
Eurekalert - Fri 8 Nov 19(DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory) Daniel Gruen, who studies how massive objects bend light from distant galaxies, has been named a 2019 Panofsky Fellow at the Department of Energy's ...
Department of Energy awards Fermilab funding for next-generation dark matter research
Newswise - Wed 6 Nov 19The U.S. Department of Energy announced that it has awarded scientists at its Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory funding to boost research on dark matter, the mysterious substance that makes ...