Space news
Poster: Aron Schatz
Posted on March 27, 2003 at 5:47:50 AM
Time for your dose of some things happening outside Earth.
An unsupernova star.
Black holes spew stuff out fast.
Mission to Mars this year.
An unsupernova star.
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The star, named V838 Monocerotis for its location in the constellation of the same name, suddenly grew 600,000 times brighter than the sun in January 2002. The flash temporarily made the star -- in the constellation also known as The Unicorn -- the brightest light in the Milky Way.
Black holes spew stuff out fast.
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Theory had predicted the fast-moving exodus of stuff, but no one had ever seen it happening. A new study found evidence of hydrogen, carbon, oxygen and iron rushing out from the vicinities of two separate black holes in winds of material moving at some 40 percent the speed of light, faster than astronomers expected.
Mission to Mars this year.
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The US space agency (Nasa) is sending two Mars rovers on the 100-million-kilometre journey to Mars in May and June. The identical robots have six wheels and should be able to travel about a kilometre from where they touch down. They are called Rover 1 and Rover 2 for now, but will eventually be named by US schoolchildren taking part in a competition.