Ian O'Neill
Carbon Dioxide Detected on Exoplanet HD 189733b
[/caption]The Hubble Space Telescope has detected carbon dioxide on a planet orbiting another star. The star in question is HD…
Hubble’s Early Festivities: Imaging the M13 Globular Cluster “Snow Globe”
[/caption] This image is one of the latest views from the Hubble Space Telescope, closely resembling a toy snow globe.…
Powerful Rivers of Gas Imaged Around Star-Forming Swan Nebula
[/caption] The turbulent and dynamic Swan Nebula (M17) has been imaged by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, producing the clearest view…
Cheers! Japanese Brewery Produces Space Beer… But What’s the Point?
[/caption]For the first time, beer brewed totally from barley grown in space can be enjoyed on terra firma. The Japanese-owned…
Constellation Development Pushes Ahead: Rocket Test Fire, Component Assembly
[/caption]Despite being the subject of some bad news of late, development of the Ares rocket system and Orion crew module…
Exploding Colorado Fireball, 100 Times Brighter than the Moon (Video)
[/caption]Last night, the Colorado skies played host to a dazzling fireball event. The meteor blasted through the atmosphere, detonated and…
Report: Early Warning System Needed for LHC
[/caption] The replacement parts for the damaged components of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) are arriving, and cautious estimates push…
First Images Emerge of Damage to the LHC, Replacements Arrive
[/caption]On September 19th, CERN announced that the Large Hadron Collider had suffered a major incident, known as a "quench". An…
Swift Detects X-Ray Emissions from Comets
[/caption]Things appeared to get a little strange in the field of X-ray astronomy when the NASA/ESA ROSAT observatory started seeing…
Old Space Observatory Spare Parts to Search for Dirty Bombs
[/caption]From 1991 to 2000, the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory dominated the search for the largest explosions ever observed in the…