Are you a Planet? A humble proposal.
UB313/Xena/Gabrielle/Eris/Dysnomia! (NASA/Artists’ Conception) Here’s a fun proposal. Next time you find yoursef bored, go into the science department of your local university and just casually...
View ArticleJune 2009 News & Notes.
Blast! (Credit: Marc Halpern/the Blast Collaboration). BLAST takes off! Recently, scientists got a look into some of the earliest moments of the universe. BLAST, the Balloon borne Large Aperture,...
View ArticleAstroEvent: Catch Jupiters Moons in 1-2-3-4 order.
Jupiter+moons at 2200 UT February 1st. (Created by Author in Starry Night). Recently Id caught something at a star party thats worth looking out for; Jupiters moons in 1-2-3-4 order. This event...
View Article01.02.2011: NEOWISE: Mission Accomplished.
Comet 65P Gunn as captured by NEOWISE. (Credit: NASA/JPL/CALTech). An orbiting sentinel recently completed its secondary science mission. WISE, NASAs Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, recently...
View Article16.02.11: The Tyche Files.
The realm of the outer solar system; here be hypothetical worlds? (Credit: NASA). Something kept floating around our astro-radar yesterday as we busily wrote about comet flybys, launches, and wacky...
View Article15.03.11: A Borderline Brown Dwarf.
A brown dwarf family portrait bracketed by our sun & Jupiter. (Artist’s conception: NASA/JPL/CalTech). Oh Be A Fine Girl/Guy Kiss Me Now the mnemonic for stellar classification running from...
View ArticleA Close Pre-Historic Brush with Scholzs Star
An artist’s conception of Scholz’s Star and its brown dwarf companion passing through the outer solar system. (Credit: Michael Osadciw/University of Rochester). A fascinating announcement out of the...
View ArticleAstro Video of the Week: White Dwarf, Brown Dwarf
+19th magnitude white dwarf WD 1202-024. (SDSS) Wanna see a wacky planetary system? A recent discovery by MIT, Harvard/Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and Bishop’s University researchers was...
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