From Webcam to Planetcam: Planetary Imaging on the Cheap
It’s a question we get often. “What sort of gear did you use to capture that?” folks ask, imagining that…
Search for Planetary Nurseries in the Latest Citizen Science Project
Growing up, my sister played video games and I read books. Now that she has a one-year-old daughter we constantly…
Close Encounters of the Lunar Kind – LRO images LADEE
This dissolve animation compares the LRO image (geometrically corrected) of LADEE captured on Jan 14, 2014 with a computer-generated and…
A Secret Solar Eclipse from Outer Space
Call it the eclipse nobody saw. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) got its own private solar eclipse showing from its…
Earth’s Water Story Gets A Plot Twist From Space Rock Search
We at Universe Today have snow on our minds these days with all this Polar Vortex talk. From out the…
‘Stupid Astronaut Tricks’ Spread The Joy of Space To New Astronaut Class
You sure couldn't hide those grins on television from the Astronaut Candidate Class of 2013 when the call came from…
Behind the Scenes: The “Making Of” the First Brown Dwarf Surface Map
By now, you will probably have heard that astronomers have produced the first global weather map for a brown dwarf.…
Stormy with a Chance of Molten Iron Rain: First Ever Map of Exotic Weather on Brown Dwarfs
Think the weather is nasty this winter here on Earth? Try vacationing on the brown dwarf Luhman 16B sometime. Two…
Can A Mega-Magnetic Field Protect Astronauts From Radiation?
A bunch of people really, really want to go to the Red Planet on the proposed one-way Mars One trip;…
How We Know Gravity is Not (Just) a Force
When we think of gravity, we typically think of it as a force between masses. When you step on a…