Mini Solar System Around a Brown Dwarf
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has found the dusty disc of planetary material surrounding an extremely low-mass brown dwarf. The failed…
Smallest Extrasolar Planet Found
Astronomers from Penn State and Caltech have found the smallest extrasolar planet yet, orbiting a pulsar 1,500 light-years away. The…
ESA Will Risk Deploying MARSIS
Engineers at the European Space Agency will go ahead and give Mars Express the command to deploy its MARSIS radar…
This Star is Leaving Our Galaxy
Astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have discovered a star speeding out of our galaxy at over 2.4 million…
What’s Up This Week – Feb 7 – 13, 2005
Greetings, fellow SkyWatchers! This will be a wonderful week as we begin by viewing the spectacular "Kemble's Cascade". Looking for…
NASA 2006 Budget Released
The US White House released its 2006 budget today, which included $16.45 billion US for NASA. This is a 2.5%…
Galaxies Might Exist Without Stars
Engineers have outfitted the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Arecibo Observatory telescope with a new instrument that could help it discover…
Book Review: Apollo 12 The NASA Mission Reports, Volume Two
After the fun and excitement of any wild party comes the clean-up. Broken things need fixing, steps get taken to…
Upper Limit on Star Mass
New research from the University of Michigan has determined that there's definitely an upper limit to the mass that stars…