Sunday Science Sermon
Moon water
NASA has found water on the moon. The data from the LCROSS’s observation of NASA bombing the moon has yielded very exciting results. Because of the extremely thin atmosphere (yes it has an atmosphere ) on the moon, any water that’s on the surface of the moon would evaporate very quickly. NASA hoped that water brought to the moon by objects may have avoided evaporation by virtue of being hidden in craters, where the temperature would be lower and it would not be exposed to sunlight. A spectral analysis of the observed plume showed results consistent with water content.
Water is very important for many reasons. My favorite reason for one being that it can be used to make oxygen, which is necessary if we are going to establish colonists or research stations on the moon.
White Dwarf stars filled with oxygen
Two white dwarf stars have been discovered that have exposed cores with a thin layer of oxygen. These would have been large stars, as big as 10 times the size of our sun, that consumed their hydrogen and collapsed. Normally stars in this situation develop a rind of carbon, but in this case the stars were so massive they never developed this carbon rind. This will hopefully enable researchers to observe the core of the star.
SU-Su-SUSY Oh
The Higgs-Boson is just the start for the LHC. In addition to finding the Last missing piece of the Standard Model, the LHC should also find evidence to suggest future paths to take in investigating Supersymmetry.
FERMI multiwavelength sky project has opened up
The Swift Gamma-Ray Burst Mission has been racking up the interesting research. Now the Swift team has announced that all their data is available online
It’s there for you to just grab and go have fun with.
This is the future of science. Research projects collecting massive amounts of information and dumping it in a pile for everyone to play with, shape, pick apart and describe.
Official site of the Swift Gamma-Ray Burst Mission.