인간을 순식간에 다른 은하계로 이동시켜 준다는 공상과학소설(SF)속 워프항법 실현이 점점더 눈앞에 가까이 다가오고 있는 것 같다. 데일리메일은 1일(현지시간) 나사플라이트닷컴(NASAflight.com)포럼에 참여한 나사 연구원들의 말을 인용, 나사가 비밀리에 이른바 워프항법엔진 테스트에 성공했다고 전했다. 또 이 엔진이 인간을 4시간 만에 달까지 갈 수 있게 해 줄 것이라고 덧붙였다. 보도에 따르면 워프드라이브 엔진 제작에 참여중이라는 이 나사엔지니어는 “나사가 우주환경(진공)에서 작동하는 이른 바 EM드라이브 테스…

[Artist’s impression of a view from the HD 7924 planetary system looking back toward our sun, which would be easily visible to the naked eye. Since HD 7924 is in our northern sky, an observer looking back at the sun would see objects like the Southern Cross and the Magellanic Clouds close to our sun…

Left: J-band polarized intensity (P⊥) images. Right: P⊥ scaled by r2, where r is the distance in pixels from the central binary, corrected for projection effects. Both images are shown on a linear scale and oriented north up and east left. The coronagraph is represented by the black filled circles …

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게시일: 2015. 1. 19. NASA's Dawn mission snapped imagery of Ceres at a distance of 238,000 miles (about the same distance between the Earth and the Moon) on Jan. 13th, 2015. The images show 'hint of craters' according to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Stunning exoplanet images and spectra from the first year of science operations with the Gemini Planet Imager (GPI) were featured today in a press conference at the 225th meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) in Seattle, Washington. The Gemini Planet Imager GPI is an advanced instrument…

Last September, after years of watching, a team of scientists led by Amherst College astronomy professor Daryl Haggard observed and recorded the largest-ever flare in X-rays from a supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way. The astronomical event, which was detected by NASA's Chandra X-…

The largest digital camera ever sent into space is beginning its quest to map the Milky Way, surveying a billion stars with nearly a billion pixels. Having launched into space in December 2013, the European Space Agency's Gaia satellite is now 1.5 million kilometres from Earth and ready to b…

Rogue Star HIP 85605 on Collision Course with our Solar System, but Earthlings Need Not Worry by MATT WILLIAMS on JANUARY 2, 2015 Collisions of neutron stars produce powerful gamma-ray bursts – and heavy elements like gold (Credit: Dana Berry, SkyWorks Digital, Inc.) Our Solar System is due…

Few things could be more fascinating or demanding in the history of European space travel than the Rosetta comet mission. Launched on 2 March 2004, the spacecraft set off on its 10-year journey to the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. The lander, Philae, will separate from its parent craft on 12 Nove…

Comet C/2013 A1 Siding Spring will make a close flyby of Mars on Oct. 19, 2014. At a distance of only 87,000 miles – about 1/3 the distance between the Earth and moon - it's a near miss of the Red Planet. Find out how NASA’s Mars orbiters will evade dust from the comet. See more videos about C…

NASA Langley researchers want to get a better idea about conditions on our nearest planetary neighbor, Venus, so they have come up with HAVOC or a High Altitude Venus Operational Concept – a lighter-than-air rocket ship that would help send two astronauts on a 30-day mission to explore the pla…

Astronomers have found a pulsating, dead star beaming with the energy of about 10 million suns. This is the brightest pulsar - a dense stellar remnant left over from a supernova explosion - ever recorded. The discovery was made with NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR. "You might…

a film by Helene Courtois, Daniel Pomarede, R. Brent Tully, Yehuda Hoffman, and Denis Courtois. All rights reserved. Release Date: 26 April 2013 Credit: IFRU Institut de Recherche sur les lois fondamentales de l'Univers (Institut of Research about the fundamentals laws of the Universe This …