SOHO is Back in Business
Image credit: ESA/NASA ESA/NASA's SOHO spacecraft is back to full capacity after a 9-day long blackout. On June 19, the…
Clusters without a Home
Image credit: Hubble Thousands of globular star clusters wander aimlessly between galaxies, in what was once thought to be 'empty…
My Two Favorite Radio Programs
If you're interested in science and discovery in general, I'd like to suggest two weekly, hour-long radio shows that you…
New Camera Catches a Near Earth Object Already
Image credit: NASA Even though it's still in its initial commissioning trials, NASA's Quasar Equatorial Survey (or Quest) camera system…
NASA Creates an Independent Safety Centre
Image credit: NASA NASA announced the creation of an independent Engineering and Safety Center (NESC) at the agency's Langley Research…
Supernovae Produce Dust More Efficiently Than Previously Thought
Image credit: Hubble A new article published in the journal Nature helps settle a long-time mystery about some of the…
Image of a Cosmic Mirage
Image credit: ESO Astronomers from the European Southern Observatory have found a very rare "Einstein ring" gravitational lens, where the…
Dust Galaxies Discovered
Image credit: ANU An Australian astronomer has discovered 20 galaxies that contain mostly gas, rather than stars - revising the…
Galaxies and Their Black Holes Grow Together
Image credit: SDSS After surveying 120,000 nearby galaxies as part of the Sloan Digital Survey, a team of astronomers have…
Neutrino-Seeking Telescope Lodged in Ice
Image credit: UW-Madison A new telescope lodged in the ice of Antarctica has completed the first map of the high-energy…