Star Forming Density – How Low Can You Go?
[/caption] The general picture of star formation envisions stars emerging in clusters, having condensed from cores of gas under self…
Globular Clusters and the Age-Metallicity Relation
[/caption] Globular Clusters have a story to tell. These dense clumps of thousands of stars are relics of the…
Gale Crater Reported Front-Runner for MSL Landing Site
A 150-kilometer-wide hollow on Mars named Gale Crater has emerged as the front-runner for the potential landing site for the…
A Four Cluster Pile-Up
[/caption] Abell 2744, shown above in a composite of images from the Hubble Space Telescope, the ESO's Very Large Telescope…
Genesis Sheds Light On Sun And Solar System Formation
[/caption] For 886 days between 2001 and 2004, a tiny spacecraft named Genesis sat parked at Lagrange Point L1 quietly…
ARTEMIS Spacecraft Curlicuing Their Way To Lunar Orbit
[/caption] From a Goddard Space Flight Center Press Release: They've almost arrived. It took one and a half years, over…
Cosmology in the Year 1 Trillion
[/caption]Much of what is known today about the birth of the cosmos comes from astronomical observations at high redshifts. Due…
Betelgeuse: A Claim To Flame
[/caption] If it were at home in the center of our solar system, this red supergiant's girth would extend out…
Another Asteroid To Give Earth a Close Shave June 27, 2011
[/caption] A newly discovered house-sized asteroid will miss the Earth by less than 17,700 km (11,000 miles) on Monday June…
Fundraising for Aliens
[/caption] SETI, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence suffered a big blow in April of this year when the primary alien…