Jason Major
Amazing Map Is Made Up Of Everyone in the U.S. and Canada
Zoomable map of the US and Canada pinpoints everyone with a dot. (Credit: Brandon Martin-Anderson/Census Dotmap) Now this is…
A Moon With Two Suns: Making Art from Science
A view of Kepler 47c and binary stars. ©Digital Drew. All rights reserved. What would it look like on a…
AR1654 is a Monster Sunspot. (And It’s Aiming Our Way.)
Active Region 1654 on the Sun's western limb, seen by SDO on Jan. 11 (NASA/SDO/HMI team. Diagram by J. Major.)…
So. Many. Stars…
Infrared image of globular cluster 47 Tucanae (NGC 104) captured by ESO’s VISTA telescope. "My god, it's full of stars!" said…
What Craters on the Moon Teach Us About Earth
When the Moon was receiving its highest number of impacts, so was Earth. Credit: Dan Durda Some questions about our…
Clouds of Sand and Iron Swirl in a Failed Star’s Extreme Atmosphere
Artist's concept of brown dwarf 2MASSJ22282889-431026 (NASA/JPL-Caltech) The complex weather patterns within the atmosphere of a rapidly-rotating brown dwarf have been…
Kepler Finds Hundreds of New Exoplanet Candidates
Artist's depiction of the Kepler 10 system, which contains planets 2.2 and 1.4 times the size of Earth. (NASA/Ames/JPL-Caltech) Kepler…
Catching Sunlight: A TEDx Talk by DIY Solar Photographer Alan Friedman
Video poster frame shows Alan Friedman's 90mm hydrogen alpha telescope setup -- nicknamed "Little Big Man" -- on an Astro-Physics…
Flying, Rolling Robot Might Make a Great Titan Explorer
The HyTAQ (Hybrid Terrestrial and Aerial Quadrotor) robot developed at Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) Ever since the Huygens probe…
Ancient Impacts Stained Vesta with Carbon-Rich Material
Composite-color 3D image of Cornelia crater on Vesta (NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA) Ever since arriving at Vesta in July 2011, NASA's Dawn spacecraft…