Super Magnets
[/caption] Magnets are not only a source of endless fun – for children and children of all ages! They also…
Where In The Universe #125
Ready for another Where In The Universe Challenge? Here’s #125! Take a look and see if you can name where…
The Cutest Little Spaceship that Never Flew
[/caption] Of all the missions and spacecraft that NASA has shelved over the years, I found the X-38 Crew Return…
WISE Captures a Glowing Cylinder in Space
[/caption] It’s not like we’ve never seen the planetary nebula NGC 1514 before, but we’ve never seen it though WISE’s…
Do Puny White Dwarfs Make Wimpy Supernovae?
[/caption] Based on results from a radial velocity survey, Warren Brown, (Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory) and his team have placed a…
Catching Planets in the Womb
[/caption]Awhile ago I wrote on the difficulty of finding young planets. There, I mentioned one team announcing the potential discovery…
A Cosmologist’s Wish List: Four Most-Wanted Discoveries
Cosmology is a fairly young science, one which attempts to reconstruct the history of our Universe from billions of years…
New Geography Trivia Challenge From Space
[/caption] You can now test your knowledge of the world’s geography in a new trivia game on Twitter sponsored by…
Dissolving Star Systems Create Mess in Orion
For young stars, stellar outflows are the rule. T Tauri stars and other young stars eject matter in generally collimated…
Mini-Asteroid Flying By Earth Tonight
A small asteroid will make a fairly close flyby of Earth tonight, November 16, 2010 at 10:44 p.m. EST (0344…