Anne Minard
Glory Launch Gets Another Go
[/caption] NASA will try again to launch its "climate change satellite" on Friday, following an attempt that was scrubbed on…
Dusty Neighbor NGC 247 is a Million Light-Years Closer Than Thought
[/caption] One of our celestial neighbors, the spiral galaxy NGC 247, just moved about a million light-years closer. Well, not…
Meteorites May Have Delivered First Ammonia for Life on Earth
Researchers have teased ammonia of a carbon-containing meteorite from Antarctica, and propose that meteorites may have delivered that essential ingredient…
Meteorites Illuminate Mystery of Chromium in Earth’s Core
It’s generally assumed that the Earth’s overall composition is similar to that of chondritic meteorites, the primitive, undifferentiated building blocks…
T Chamaeleon Gets Caught in the Act — Forming Planets, That Is
[/caption] An international team of astronomers peering at a young star in the constellation Chamaeleon have detected a smaller companion…
Close Look at Cas A Reveals Bizarre ‘Superfluid’
[/caption] NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has discovered the first direct evidence for a superfluid, a bizarre, friction-free state of matter, at the…
Halt, Black Hole! Gemini Captures Explosions That Deprive Black Holes of Mass
[/caption] Astronomers have long suspected that something must stymie actively growing black holes, because most galaxies in the local universe…
‘Climate Change Satellite’ Gets its Day in the Sun — Finally
[/caption] NASA is launching an Earth-orbiting satellite called Glory tomorrow that will tackle a highly charged question: How much can…
Film Review: Nostalgia for the Light (in Atacama)
[/caption] It's difficult enough to imagine stark white telescope domes towering over a parched brown landscape made even more arid…
Continent-Wide Telescope Array Now Seeing 450 Million Light-Years Into Space
[/caption] Kitt Peak. Los Alamos. St. Croix. Pie Town. What do these places have in common? They each house one…