Astronomy News

The entire universe is astronomy. That’s because it has the entire universe to explore. That’s why so many people follow astronomy news in print magazines and online. Here are some of the latest stories.

Astronomy magazine is a great source of astronomy news. One of the stories it covered was NASA’s Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) spacecraft. Just as weathermen examine fronts and the interaction of hot air with cold air and dry air with wet air, IBEX is interested in such fronts and their interaction in outer space. Specifically it’s the interaction of the solar winds with the relatively cold space beyond the solar system. Another goal is to create an accurate picture of the solar system’s boundaries.

Astronomy news has also covered the discovery of a unique aurora on Saturn. An aurora results when charged particles stream along the planet’s ‘magnetic fields. The solar winds create the auroras on earth. Jupiter’s auroras are the result of a closed system of charged particles in Jupiter’s own magnetic fields. But Saturn’s new aurora, seen in the infrared spectrum, is something completely new which could teach scientists a lot about the solar wind and magnetic fields.

astronomy news can also be found in the magazine “Universe Today”. Contact was reestablished with a roving probe on Mars. The culprit was a big dust storm. But Spirit recovered from this low-power dilemma. Scientists believed it would go into shutdown after a long period of dust blocking energy from reaching the solar panels and never again communicate. However, the rover woke up so it’s business as usual.

Contact with intelligent life may be a matter of less than 15 years thanks to the Allen telescope array, at least that’s what’s in astronomy news. The array is set to grow up from its current 42 antennas to over 350. Well before 2025 people reached so far into space that it can’t help but find intelligence.

Finding another intelligent race somewhere out there sure would be huge astronomy news.