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 recent, tantalizing tidbits of space information.

A lot of astronomy news can be found in the magazine ”Astronomy”. One of the stories it covered was NASA’s Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) spacecraft. Just as weatherman study winds in fronts, IBEX studies outer space fronts. That means the solar winds and how they interact at the edges of the sun’s reach. IBEX is also set to map the boundaries of our solar system.

There’s also astronomy news about a new aurora on Saturn, unique compared to other auroras we’ve known. Charged particles interact with the planet’s magnetic field to form an aurora. 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 the rover came through with shining colors even though it lacked power. With the dust blocking sunlight from its solar panels, the fear was that it would shut down completely and never recover. 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.