Wednesday, May 7, 2014

ScienceDaily: Astronomy News

ScienceDaily: Astronomy News

NASA's Curiosity rover drills sandstone slab on Mars

Posted: 06 May 2014 04:11 PM PDT

Portions of rock powder collected by the hammering drill on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover from a slab of Martian sandstone will be delivered to the rover's internal instruments.

Magnetic fingerprint of our galaxy revealed

Posted: 06 May 2014 09:02 AM PDT

Astrophysicists have released an unprecedented map of the entire sky that charts the magnetic field shaping our Milky Way Galaxy. The map reveals magnetic field lines running parallel to the plane of the Galaxy, as well as great loops and whorls associated with nearby clouds of gas and dust.

Are we ready for contact with extraterrestrial intelligence?

Posted: 06 May 2014 04:46 AM PDT

The SETI project scientists are known for tracking possible extraterrestrial signals, but now they are also considering sending messages from Earth telling of our position. A researcher questions this idea in view of the results from a survey taken by students, revealing the general level of ignorance about the cosmos and the influence of religion when tackling these matters.

Galaxy's biggest telescope harnesses most precise measurement of spinning star

Posted: 06 May 2014 04:44 AM PDT

An international team of astronomers has made a measurement of a distant neutron star that is one million times more precise than the previous world's best. The researchers were able to use the interstellar medium, the 'empty' space between stars and galaxies that is made up of sparsely spread charged particles, as a giant lens to magnify and look closely at the radio wave emission from a small rotating neutron star.
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