Jon Voisey
Why Did Copernicus Reject Geocentrism?
Popular science history paints a picture of the Greek geocentric model dominating astronomical thought beginning around the 3rd century BCE,…
An Amateur Astronomer Discovered One-of-a-Kind Supernova Remnant
In 2013, amateur astronomer Dana Patchick was looking through images from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer archive and discovered a…
The Milky Way’s Stolen Globular Clusters
Modern astronomy holds that all major galaxies (with the Milky Way as no exception) are the accumulation of numerous small…
Quenched Galaxies in the Early Universe
Recently, much attention has been given to massive, active galaxies discovered by the JWST in the early universe. But in…
A Medieval Manuscript Likely Hides a Record of an Impending Recurrent Nova
Approximately every 80 years, a faint 10th magnitude star in the constellation of Corona Borealis dramatically increases its brightness. This…
Did a Comet Airburst Destroy a Native American Community?
In 1908, when an object entered the Earth’s atmosphere above the Podkamennaya Tunguska River, it flattened 80 million trees over…
The Historic Discussion of Ptolemy’s Star Catalog
From the time of its writing in the 2nd century CE, Claudius Ptolemy’s Almagest stood at the forefront of mathematical…
Two “b”‘s in the Beehive
Praesepe (aka. the Beehive Cluster) As astronomers near the 800 mark for confirmed extra solar planets, it seems that notable…
Earth Threatened By Glowing Green Asteroid?
[/caption] The Daily Mail is reporting that a youtube user has found a strange object while poking around in Google…
A Planetary System That Never Was Teaches About Those That May Be
While Kepler and similar missions are turning up planets by the fist full, there's long been many places that astronomers…