Queen's University Belfast lead research milestone in predicting solar flares
Belfast, UK (SPX) Nov 18, 2015 -
An international team of researchers, led by Queen's University Belfast, has devised a high-precision method of examining magnetic fields in the Sun's atmosphere, representing a significant leap forward in the investigation of solar flares and potentially catastrophic 'space weather'.
Solar flares are massive explosions of energy in the Sun's atmosphere. Experts have warned that even a sin ...
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Hubble Views a Lonely Galaxy
Washington DC (SPX) Nov 18, 2015 -
Only three local stars appear in this image, quartered by right-angled diffraction spikes. Everything besides them is a galaxy; floating like a swarm of microbes in a drop of water, and brought into view here not by a microscope, but by the Advanced Camera for Surveys on the Hubble Space Telescope.
In the foreground, the spiral arms of MCG+01-02-015 seem to wrap around one another, cocooni ...
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Astronomers discover a distant galaxy with a pulse
New Haven CT (SPX) Nov 18, 2015 -
Astronomers at Yale and Harvard have found a galaxy with a heartbeat - and they've taken its pulse. It is the first time scientists have measured the effect that pulsating, older red stars have on the light of their surrounding galaxy. The findings are published in the Nov. 16 online edition of the journal Nature.
"We tend to think of galaxies as steady beacons in the sky, but they are act ...
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The "Omics" of Space Travel
Huntsville AL (SPX) Nov 18, 2015 -
The human body is incredibly complex. Every part of us-from our bones to our blood cells-is subject to a host of chemical reactions and molecular interactions that, without our conscious effort, keep us alive. But what happens to these processes when we leave the planet?
In Earth orbit and beyond, where gravity is counteracted by a constant state of freefall and cosmic radiation intensifie ...
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Orion ingenuity improves manufacturing while reducing mass
Washington DC (SPX) Nov 18, 2015 -
How do you reduce the weight of a spacecraft's underlying structure, while using the same materials as the heavier version and still hold to the same manufacturing schedule?
This month, the engineers who helped answer that question are seeing their hard work pay off. Technicians have finished welding together three cone panels that make up a section of the Orion crew module that will fly b ...
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Streamlining mobile image processing
Boston MA (SPX) Nov 18, 2015 -
As smartphones become people's primary computers and their primary cameras, there is growing demand for mobile versions of image-processing applications.
Image processing, however, can be computationally intensive and could quickly drain a cellphone's battery. Some mobile applications try to solve this problem by sending image files to a central server, which processes the images and sends ...
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XCOR develops Lynx Simulator
Mojave CA (SPX) Nov 18, 2015 -
XCOR Aerospace has announced that it has completed work on its Lynx simulator system, built by Protobox LLC in conjunction with the Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) at Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio. This simulator will provide XCOR invaluable training as the test pilot team prepares for Lynx flight test.
"Dedicated aerodynamic modeling of the vehicle in the LAMARS (Large Amp ...
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