Both magazines and the Internet are excellent sources for recent astronomy articles. New photos of space objects result in articles. When space agencies announce missions, people write. Every new discovery and piece of information generates a tremendous amount of discussion. This article relates a few of them.
Something as simple as bumpy space dust generated a great deal of interest and a lot of the recent astronomy articles. Why is this important? Scientists know that hydrogen is the universe’s basic building block. However, larger molecules require that hydrogen bonds. In the cold of space it takes the right medium to complete the bond. Bumpy molecules provide that medium, so now scientists have verified a theory on how hydrogen forms molecules in space. Bumpy dusty, who would have thought it.
The Death Star is one of the moons of Saturn. It looks like the Star Wars space station, with a huge crater on one side. Recent astronomy articles focused on Cassini’s mission to this moon, called Mimas. Some stunning images and a lot of new data resulted. And, of course, many people read all about it. This information will help shed light on the number of impact objects that pass through Saturn’s orbit. This can give new insight into how busy our solar system is as far as impact capable objects, as well as reveal the true extent of how other planets, like Saturn, serve as object scrubbers in our solar system.
It’s long been known that dark matter exists in the universe. It helps the universe expand, but it’s not clear how it does this. Dark matter was a popular headline in recent astronomy articles. There was a plan to study distant supernovae to learn about dark matter. 70% of the universe’s matter is dark matter so this is important work.
Before becoming a sun, our little yellow sun was just a proto-sun. Many researchers, however wondered whether this proto-sun may have emitted useful heat or light or particles. Yes it did, says recent astronomy articles. Scientists have used new techniques to discover that the protosun did indeed emit ultraviolet and other particles in an early form of the solar wind. So the sun helped create life before it ever became a sun.
The Internet is a great source for learning about recent astronomy articles.