Tuesday 31 May 2016

Trilobites: Following New Horizons’ Long Mission, Pluto Gets a Forever Stamp

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NASA and the United States Postal Service released two new Forever 47-cent stamps commemorating the voyage to Pluto.
via New York Times

Mapping the defects of a supermaterial

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Scientists have developed a technique that allows them to visualize defects on the surface of graphene. The technique may ultimately help scientists develop a better understanding of graphene’s properties in order to find novel applications for this supermaterial.
via Science Daily

Studying life on the rocks

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Researchers have developed an apparatus to meet the growing need for measuring ice as it changes in response to external forces, a process ice scientists call 'deformational behaviors.'' These forces occur on Earth in glacial ice as it flows due to gravity, and in space as icy satellite bodies respond to tidal forces from their parent bodies.
via Science Daily
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Stars and Gas of the Running Chicken Nebula

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Was Planet 9 once an exoplanet; stolen by our sun

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Astronomers show that it is highly likely that the so-called Planet 9 is an exoplanet. This would make it the first exoplanet to be discovered inside our own solar system. The theory is that our sun, in its youth some 4.5 billion years ago, stole Planet 9 from its original star.
via Science Daily
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