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.  Discussion abounds about everything.  Here’s just some of the most recent astronomy articles.

Bumpy space dust, of all things, generated many recent astronomy articles.  Why is this important?  Scientists have long known that hydrogen is the most abundant element in the universe.  However, larger molecules require that hydrogen bonds.  In the cold of space it takes the right medium to complete the bond.  Scientists now realize that bumpy molecules may fit that bill.  Nobody thinks of dust being bumpy when they vacuum.

The Death Star is one of the moons of Saturn.  With its huge crater, it resembles the famous movie prop.  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.  One hope scientists have is that this new data will reveal information about the number of crater creating objects fly through the Saturn system.  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’s not well understood how it helps the universe expand.  In 2008 a number of the recent astronomy articles were dedicated to the search for and analysis of dark matter.  There was a plan to study distant supernovae to learn about dark matter.  It’s important because about 70% of the stuff in the universe is dark matter.

Before our sun was really a star it was a condensing mass of space matter called a protosun.  Many researchers, however wondered whether this proto-sun may have emitted useful heat or light or particles.  Yes it did, says recent astronomy articles.  Better technology has shown that the proto-sun did send out solar winds as well as a great deal of heat and light.  All of this helped life on Earth form.

For any astronomy enthusiast it’s important to keep up on recent astronomy articles.

Related posts

• What Sorts Of Star Charting Software Are Commonly Available? (0)
• Information About Astronomy - What Do You Recognize About Astronomy? (0)