Category Archives: Space
USA Science and Engineering Festival – Home
Celebrate STEM at the largest science festival in the country! Join the 4th USA Science & Engineering Festival in Washington, D.C. April 16-17, 2016.
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Possible signature of dark matter annihilation detected
A false-color image of the anomalous gamma-ray emission from the central region of the Milky Way galaxy; this emission is suspected of coming from dark matter annihilation. In this image, the emission from conventional sources has been subtracted from the total. The region covers roughly five degrees; the brightest emission is colored red and faintest blue. Credit: Daylan et al.
CfA astronomer Doug Finkbeiner and a team of colleagues claim to have identified just such a signature of dark matter annihilation.
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2016-03-signature-dark-annihilation.html#jCp
Earth might have hairy dark matter
This illustration shows Earth surrounded by theoretical filaments of dark matter called “hairs.” Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
The solar system might be a lot hairier than we thought. A new study publishing this week in the Astrophysical Journal by Gary Prézeau of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, proposes the existence of long filaments of dark matter, or “hairs.”
Compromise Commercial Space Bill Passes House
Compromise Commercial Space Bill Passes House: Learn about House passage of the final version of H.R. 2262, the Commercial Space Launch Competitiveness Act, in November 2015, clearing the measure for the President.
Compromise Commercial Space Bill Passes House — Next Stop, the President
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Watch the ISS space walk live! It started at12:10 PM UTC (8:10 AM EDT) on October 28, 2015 – NASA Television | NASA
