Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Exoplanet hunters have found thousands of planets, most orbiting close to their host stars, but relatively few alien worlds have been detected that
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – The dwarf planet Vesta is helping scientists better understand the earliest era in the formation of our solar system. Two recent papers
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Considered an ultra-hot Jupiter—a place where iron gets vaporized, condenses on the night side and then falls from the sky like rain—the
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Energy from the solar wind interacting with the magnetospheric ‘bubble’ around Earth creates waves of energy that appear to stand still. This
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Metal-rich near-Earth asteroids, or NEAs, are rare, but their presence provides the intriguing possibility that iron, nickel and cobalt could someday be
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – UNLV researchers and colleagues may have identified the first known planet to orbit three stars. Unlike our solar system, which consists of
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has successfully passed its critical design review, signaling that all design and developmental engineering work is
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – It’s been eventful several Martian days, or sols, since our last blog post, so we wanted to provide everyone with an update on
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – A new Cornell study finds that next-generation telescopes used to see exoplanets could confuse Earth-like planets with other types of planets in
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Astronomers from National Astronomical Observatories of Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC), Shanghai Astronomical Observatory of CAS and Nanjing University have revealed the
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Galactic cosmic rays are created within our galaxy, the Milky Way. They consist predominantly of charged particles, i.e. protons, ions, positrons, and electrons
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – New data analysis has found that the sunlight filtering through Venus’ clouds could support Earth-like photosynthesis in the cloud layers and that
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Like the speed of an advancing race car driver, the winds in the outermost “lane” of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot are accelerating
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – A group of astronomers from the Astrobiology Center, the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, the University of Tokyo, and other institutes, discovered
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – An international team of astronomers has not only detected clouds on the distant exoplanet WASP-127b, but also measured their altitude with unprecedented
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – At least one out of four white dwarfs (WDs) will end its life as a magnetic star, and therefore magnetic fields are
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – The Moon’s polar regions are home to craters and other depressions that never receive sunlight. Today, a group of researchers led by
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – What doesn’t stick comes around: Using machine learning and simulations of giant impacts, researchers at the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory found that the
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Early massive galaxies—those that formed in the three billion years following the Big Bang —should have contained large amounts of cold hydrogen gas,
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Astronomers have discovered a humongous cavity in space while mapping interstellar dust. The sphere-shaped phenomenon may explain how supernovae lead to star
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Analysis of unique fingerprints in light emitted from material surrounding young stars has revealed “significant reservoirs” of large organic molecules necessary to
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Mushballs—giant, slushy hailstones made from a mixture of ammonia and water—may be responsible for an atmospheric anomaly on Neptune and Uranus that
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) researchers have completed the most extensive chemical composition mapping of the protoplanetary disks around five
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Some volcanoes can produce eruptions so powerful they release oceans of dust and toxic gases into the air, blocking out sunlight and
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – A 900-year-old cosmic mystery surrounding the origins of a famous supernova first spotted over China in 1181 AD has finally been solved,
