Nicholos Wethington
Red Giant Brightness Variations Still Mysterious
[/caption] Like everything else in the Universe, stars get old. As they become older, stars like our own Sun "puff…
Cool – Literally – Extrasolar Planet Imaged
Yet another planet outside of our Solar System has been directly imaged, bumping the list up past ten. Given that…
House Subcommittee Holds Hearing on Spaceflight Safety
[/caption] The U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Space & Aeronautics held a hearing yesterday on the issue of how…
Vatican Astronomer on the Colbert Report
The Colbert Report Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c Gold, Frankincense and Mars - Guy Consolmagno www.colbertnation.com Colbert Report Full…
Stellar Escapees Await Detection
[/caption] The structure of the Universe and the formation of stars from concentrated dust leads them to be clumped into…
The LHC Will Discover the Higgs. Wanna Bet?
[/caption] If you're of the opinion that the Large Hadron Collider - which just became the most powerful supercollider ever…
Superbright Supernova First Observed of Antimatter Variety
[/caption] The supernova 2007bi wasn't your typical supernova: it was 10 times brighter than a Type Ia supernova, making it…
Countdown to Christmas: Hubble Advent Calendar
This is way cooler than those chocolate filled advent calendars that you can buy at the grocery store (although arguably…
Mars Odyssey Goes into Safe Mode
The Mars Odyssey orbiter went into safe mode on Saturday, November 28th because of a glitch in the "memory error…
Quasar Caught Building Future Home Galaxy
The birth of galaxies is quite a complicated affair, and little is known about whether the supermassive black holes at…