Space
- Nov. 14, 2016 Right before sunrise on Monday, something really super is going to happen. That’s when we’ll be treated to a
- Solar flares could damage satellites, trigger radio blackouts and even threaten the health of astronauts by penetrating spacecraft shielding. That's why scientists are on a quest to better understand space weather, and a soon-to-launch instrument package will help.
- A team of astronomers, including one from Âé¶¹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder, used the super-sharp radio vision of the National Science Foundation's Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) to find the shredded remains of a galaxy that passed through a larger galaxy, leaving only the smaller galaxy's nearly-naked supermassive black hole to emerge and speed away at more than 2,000 miles per second.Â
- A NASA mission to Mars led by Âé¶¹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder has shown that water escaping from the planet's atmosphere is driven in large part by how close it is to the sun.
- New global images of Mars from NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission being led by Âé¶¹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder show the ultraviolet glow from the Martian atmosphere in unprecedented detail, revealing dynamic, previously invisible behavior.
- Today, NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) mission, which is being led by the Âé¶¹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØ, completed one Mars year of science observations. One Mars year is just under two Earth years.
- If you gaze at the night sky from Earth in just the right place, you will see the International Space Station (ISS), a bright speck of light hurtling through space at 5 miles per second as it orbits 220 miles above the planet. And if you were an astronaut floating around inside the station, you would see high-tech hardware and experiments designed and built at Âé¶¹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder.
- A NASA mission involving Âé¶¹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder was successfully launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 5:05 p.m. MDT Thursday night and is on its way to explore an asteroid, setting the stage for a better understanding of the evolution of our solar system. Â
- NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, set for launch Sept. 8 and which involves Âé¶¹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder researchers, is designed to snag a sample from the surface of a near-Earth asteroid for study. The spacecraft will fly more than 1 billion miles in two years before reporting for duty at the asteroid known as Bennu.
- Capitalizing on its reputation as a top public university in space research, Âé¶¹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder has launched a brand new Space Minor program for all undergraduate students. Students are invited to learn more at an event 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 1, at the Fiske Planetarium. The event will feature astronaut Jim Voss - and pizza and drinks.