Bringing the Solar System Down to Earth
As a part of NASA's ongoing Year of the Solar System – which is actually a single Martian year long, or…
MOST… Cutting To The Heart Of A Wolf-Rayet Star
[/caption] In 1867, astronomers using the 40 cm Foucault telescope at the Paris Observatory, discovered three stars in the constellation…
Coming To A Theatre Near You… Extreme Neutron Stars!
[/caption] They came into existence violently... Born at the death of a massive star. They are composed almost entirely of…
Atlantis Goes Vertical for the Last Time
[/caption] KENNEDY SPACE CENTER – For the last time in history, Atlantis and the shuttle program have literally gone vertical.…
Voyager 1 Measures Magnetic Mayhem
[/caption] When Voyager 1 passed into the heliosheath in 2004, it became the first man-made object to explore the remote…
And The Moon Is Eclipsed By The Earth
[/caption] On June 15 there will be a total lunar eclipse visible from Australia, Indonesia, southern Japan, India, a…
Twisted Ring Of Gas Orbits Galactic Center
[/caption] The Herschel Space Observatory scanned the center of the galaxy in far-infrared and found a cool (in all senses…
Copenhagen Suborbitals Upcoming Launch Attempt in June
[/caption] Copenhagen Suborbitals hopes to launch the world’s first amateur-built rocket for human space travel and have announced an upcoming…
Globular Clusters Are Real Oddballs
[/caption] Hanging onto the outskirts of our Milky Way galaxy like cockle burs on a shaggy dog's coat, globular clusters…
Dead Galaxy? Don’t Think So.
[/caption] There was a time when most astronomers concluded that elliptical galaxies were a lot like their globular clusters -…