Space
Over billions of years, the universe's stars and galaxies have left behind an imperceptibly faint light in space. NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has traveled to the edge of Earth's solar system and captured the most accurate measurement of this glow to date.
A team at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics has received a $2 million award to develop a concept study for a NASA mission that will investigate how Earth’s lower atmosphere influences the upper atmosphere.
Bolstering its longstanding collaboration with NASA, the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics enacted a collaborative Space Act Agreement with NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center focused on space weather.
NASA has awarded $1 million to a team led by LASP and Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder physics scientist Xu Wang to develop a Rubik’s cube-sized instrument capable of measuring the speed, size and charge of tiny dust particles on small rocky bodies.
Sean Peters is leading a $2.45 million initiative to develop power efficient passive radar systems that could peek under the surface of Mars.
On June 25, more than 50 LASP employees, family and friends attended the Kennedy Space Center launch of NOAA’s GOES-U satellite carrying the fourth and final Extreme Ultraviolet and X-Ray Irradiance Sensors instrument aboard.
A joint proposal of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder and Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory has earned a $2 million award for a NASA mission concept study.
Postdoctoral researcher Abhi Doddi is collecting scientific data outdoors in a 70 mph whiteout blizzard. It is just another day of life in Antarctica.
On June 25, the last instrument in a series designed and built in Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ, is scheduled to launch aboard an orbiting satellite. It's part of a program that spots flares leaping out from around the sun before they can cause trouble on Earth.
Light pollution from streetlights and other sources is making dark skies harder to find. Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder astronomer Erica Ellingson gives her take on where you can still go in Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ to see brilliant displays of stars.