Tuesday, August 5, 2014

ScienceDaily: Astronomy News

ScienceDaily: Astronomy News


Massive volcanic outbursts on Jupiter's moon Io: More common than thought?

Posted: 04 Aug 2014 11:10 AM PDT

Three massive volcanic eruptions occurred on Jupiter's moon Io within a two-week period in August of last year. This led astronomers to speculate that such "outbursts," which can send material hundreds of miles above the surface, might be much more common than they thought.

Baby Universe picture brought closer to theory

Posted: 04 Aug 2014 07:30 AM PDT

The Planck Telescope allowed physicists to draw the most detailed map of the first light emitted after the Big Bang. Some of its features do not entirely fit the standard cosmological theory, but scientists have discovered that these anomalies could be explained by how the data was processed.

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