FYYSIKA.EE

The latest search for alien construction around Tabby’s Star began this week

Space Science Image of the Week: An unusually bright and sudden aurora looms over Iceland, adopting the spooky form of a writhing celestial serpent

Our week through the lens: 24-28 October 2016

Satellite engineers have been puzzling over why GPS navigation systems on low-orbiting satellites like ESA’s Swarm sometimes black out when they fly over the equator between Africa and South America. Thanks to Swarm, it appears ‘thunderstorms’ in the ionosphere are to blame.

12th-magnitude Comet Johnson, Algol in Perseus reaches maximum brightness, and other cool things to look for in the sky this week.

After a year and a half of transmitting, the last of the data has finally been returned

From Jupiter’s red storms to distant howling lightning storms, these are the places you least want to be.

The Copernicus Sentinel-1 twin radar satellites combined with cloud computing are monitoring Europe’s earthquake zones by searching for ground shifts as small as a millimetre. 

80 years of daring to do what few others have tried, including bouncing radio signals off a giant, orbiting balloon in 1960.

The 15,000th near-Earth asteroid (2016 TB57) was discovered this month.

The most powerful telescope orbiting Mars provides new details of the scene where Europe’s test lander hit the surface last week.

New results from NASA’s GRAIL mission yield insights into the huge impacts that dominated the early history of Earth’s moon and other solid worlds in our solar system.

“Orbit,” an educational experience, lets the public explore satellites through sound.

“Orbit,” an educational experience, lets the public explore satellites through sound.

The 15,000th near-Earth asteroid (2016 TB57) was discovered this month.

New results from NASA’s GRAIL mission yield insights into the huge impacts that dominated the early history of Earth’s moon and other solid worlds in the outer solar system.

The most powerful telescope orbiting Mars provides new details of the scene where Europe’s test lander hit the surface last week.

A high-resolution image taken by a NASA Mars orbiter this week reveals further details of the area where the ExoMars Schiaparelli module ended up following its descent on 19 October.

Technology image of the week: ESA’s original technology demonstration minisatellite, still going strong, images an Arctic river delta

Operations image of the week: ESA’s ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter swings into orbit around the Red Planet

Join us Friday, 28 October, at 10:00 CEST for the ‘Earth from Space’ video programme. The flat-topped mountains of Russia’s Putoransky State Nature Reserve are featured in this week’s edition

This Halloween season, grab your telescope and scare up these spooky objects

The tragic fate of the European Space Agency’s lander has been confirmed

New distant objects? Unseen planets? The unexplored region of our solar system

The international effort to find, confirm and catalogue the multitude of asteroids that pose a threat to our planet has reached a milestone: 15 000 discovered – with many more to go.

80 years of daring to do what few others have tried, including bouncing radio signals off a giant, orbiting balloon in 1960.

What started out as a bar room bet became a paper taking the goofy premise deadly seriously

A ‘Joint Statement on Shared Vision and Goals for the Future of European Space’ was signed by ESA Director General Jan Woerner and European Commissioner Elżbieta Bieńkowska in Brussels today.

A space-age system for detecting drones took home the grand prize in this year’s European Satellite Navigation Competition, while ESA’s prize went to a smart satnav bicycle bell.

A huge, unknown object is dimming this supergiant star’s light, just as it did 27 years ago. New technology may soon tell us what it is.

Astronomers have captured a stunningly clear, and rare image of stellar triplets still in their infancy

Here’s what we knew of Mars in 1954

New model of merging galaxies better explains missing stars and visible star clumps

NASA’s Juno spacecraft at Jupiter has left safe mode and has successfully completed a minor burn of its thruster engines in preparation for its next close flyby of Jupiter.

Two new studies offer a direct view of rapid melting from the undersides of glaciers in West Antarctica, with implications for future rates of global sea level rise.

NASA’s Juno spacecraft at Jupiter has left safe mode and has successfully completed a minor burn of its thruster engines in preparation for its next close flyby of Jupiter.

Two new studies offer a direct view of rapid melting from the undersides of glaciers in West Antarctica, with implications for future rates of global sea level rise.

The ExoMars team may have an easy fix for their 2020 lander

Witness the dazzling effects of some particularly stormy celestial weather tonight

A poor soul adrift in the void could bring the genesis on a place like Mars

Welcome to the theoretical counter-Saturn.

These interesting stars will be helpful for scientists studying gravitational effects of stars

NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has identified new markings on the surface of the Red Planet that are believed to be related to Europe’s Schiaparelli test lander, which arrived at Mars on Oct. 19.

A new study suggests Uranus has two tiny, previously undiscovered moonlets orbiting near two of the planet’s rings.

Heartbeat stars got their name because if you were to map out their brightness over time, the result looks like an electrocardiogram, a graph of the electrical activity of the heart.

Heartbeat stars got their name because if you were to map out their brightness over time, the result looks like an electrocardiogram, a graph of the electrical activity of the heart.

NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has identified new markings on the surface of the Red Planet that are believed to be related to Europe’s Schiaparelli test lander, which arrived at Mars on Oct. 19.

A new study suggests Uranus has two tiny, previously undiscovered moonlets orbiting near two of the planet’s rings.

Our week through the lens: 17-21 October 2016

NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has identified new markings on the surface of the Red Planet that are believed to be related to ESA’s ExoMars Schiaparelli entry, descent and landing technology demonstrator module.

ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet and crew practise for the final Soyuz spacecraft exams before launch on 16 November

Scientists are still trying to piece together exactly what happened to the lander

People with no astrophysics training still helped make a big discovery

Why we shouldn’t call exoplanets ‘Earth-like’ just yet

Earth observation image of the week: a Sentinel-2 false-colour image of Nepal’s capital city, Kathmandu, and part of the Himalayan foothills

A NASA analysis of a 2015 Texas flood is the first to document the full life cycle and impacts of a flood on both land and ocean.

Ten thousand volunteers viewing images of Mars have helped identify targets for closer inspection, yielding new insights about erosional features known as “spiders.”

As winter comes to the southern parts of Saturn’s moon Titan, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has been following dramatic seasonal changes in the temperature and composition of the atmosphere there.

A NASA analysis of a 2015 Texas flood is the first to document the full life cycle and impacts of a flood on both land and ocean.

As winter comes to the southern parts of Saturn’s moon Titan, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has been following dramatic seasonal changes in the temperature and composition of the atmosphere there.

Ten thousand volunteers viewing images of Mars have helped identify targets for closer inspection, yielding new insights about erosional features known as “spiders.”

Join us Friday, 21 October, at 10:00 CEST for the ‘Earth from Space’ video programme. This week features Nepal’s capital city, Kathmandu, and part of the Himalayan foothills

16 Psyche, a metallic relic of the early solar system, just got weirder.

Inside the surprising finds from the New Horizons mission.