Thursday, November 5, 2015

This was really pretty
http://www.space.com/30918-gorgeous-green-aurora-over-glimmering-lake.html
Hey if you have at least a bachelors degree in engineering math or science and over 1000 hours of pilot time you can be an astronaut.
http://www.space.com/31019-nasa-recruiting-astronaut-applications-2017.html
Studies have shown that Mars had a carbon dioxide atmosphere which allowed it support liquid water that was lost around 4.2 to 3.7 billion years ago.  Earth is found to support life around 4.1 billion years ago.
http://www.space.com/31031-mars-atmosphere-discovery-nasa-maven.html

Wednesday, November 4, 2015

Here are a bunch of cool things to see this month. You can see Venus Mars and Jupiter at different times this month.  Jupiter will have a -1.9 magnitude around 5 am and will be only a few degrees away from the crescent moon.
http://www.space.com/31006-skywatching-november-venus-jupiter-mars.html
Dark matter may have interacted with normal matter in the early universe.  This happened when temperatures in the early universe were extremely hot and both matter and dark matter were in the plasma states.  When the temperature of the universe cooled down an still unknown force could have brought together the the components of matter along with an unknown "stealth particle" to create dark matter.  This dark matter is neutrally charged or else it would be easier to detect. Dark matter is five times more abundant than normal matter yet now interacts weakly with other matter.

http://www.space.com/31013-stealth-dark-matter-universe-missing-mass.html