A report released yesterday by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) concluded that NASA has to…
Archive for November 30, 2007
Comet’s ‘dust bunnies’ to shower Earth
Geoff Chester was just 7 years old when he picked up his dad’s binoculars and aimed them at that familiar luminous object casting its glow over the night sky of Fairfield County, Connecticut. Ever since, he’s been hooked on stargazing.
An X-Ray Santa Claus in Orion
Right in time for the festive season, ESA’s XMM-Newton X-ray observatory has discovered a huge cloud of high-temperature gas resting in a spectacular nearby star-forming region, shaped somewhat like the silhouette of Santa Claus.