Adam Mann

2 months ago | daily.jstor.org | Elizabeth Quill |Helge Kragh |Adam Mann |Fulvio Melia

The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. For millions of years following the Big Bang, after the universe’s roiling soup of particles had cooled, the cosmos was a dark and boring place. There were no stars to make light. No familiar swirls of galaxies. Certainly no planets. And the entire universe was shrouded in neutral hydrogen gas. Then, perhaps 100 million years or so in, everything started to change.

Dec 22, 2024 | snexplores.org | Adam Mann

astronomer: A scientist who works in the field of research that deals with celestial objects, space and the physical universe. astrophysicist: A scientist who works in an area of astronomy that deals with understanding the physical nature of stars and other objects in space. brown dwarf: A would-be star that never became massive enough to sustain nuclear fusion. celestial object: Any naturally formed objects of substantial size in space.

Oct 1, 2024 | nationalgeographic.com | Adam Mann |Paul Byrne

For more than a quarter century, scientists have wanted to send a robot to explore Jupiter’s moon Europa. Now, it’s finally happening: A spacecraft bound for the icy world is scheduled to blast off from Kennedy Space Center on a SpaceX rocket sometime before November 6, after delay due to Hurricane Milton. NASA’s Europa Clipper mission will spend five and a half years cruising to the Jovian system and then conduct nearly 50 flybys of the enigmatic moon to investigate its many mysteries.

Aug 29, 2024 | newsbreak.com | Adam Mann

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Aug 29, 2024 | sciencenews.org | Adam Mann

A lucky alignment of two sun-studying spacecraft may have finally solved a decades-old solar mystery. Data from NASA’s Parker Solar Probe and the European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter suggest that plasma waves known as Alfvén waves inject energy into the solar wind as it leaves the sun’s outer atmosphere, potentially explaining why the solar wind is so much hotter and faster than heliophysicists expect, researchers report August 29 in Science.