Astronomy
Movie Review – Alien: Covenant
So, are you excited for the 2017 movie season? U.S. Memorial Day weekend is almost upon us, and that means…
The Universe
Measuring about 91 billion light years in diameter and being 13.8 billion years old, the Universe encompasses all matter, energy,…
Saturn’s Hexagon Will be the Star of the Cassini Finale
In the coming weeks, the Cassini probe will getting a better glimpse at the hexagonal storm around its northern polar…
Newly Discovered House-Sized Asteroid 2017 HX4 Flew Safely Past the Earth Yesterday
A Near Earth Object (NEO) passed Earth at a distance of about 3.7 Lunar Distances on May 8th, 2017, passing…
See Comet C/2015 ER61 PanSTARRS at its Best
Have you been following the Springtime parade of bright comets? Thus far, the Oort cloud has offered up several fine…
Messier 41 – the NGC 2287 Open Star Cluster
Welcome back to Messier Monday! In our ongoing tribute to the great Tammy Plotner, we take a look at the…
Does Jupiter Have a Solid Core?
For the past few decades, scientists have been of the opinion that beneath its swirling clouds of gas, Jupiter may…
Only 10 Light-Years Away, there’s a Baby Version of the Solar System
Located 10.5 light years away, and filled with asteroid belts and a debris disk, the Epsilon Eridani system is basically…
Faster Supercomputer! NASA Announces the High Performance Fast Computing Challenge
To ensure that their Pleiades supercomputer can keep up with future missions, NASA and TopCoder are hosting the High Performance…
A Single Wave, Bigger Than the Milky Way, is Rolling Through the Perseus Galaxy Cluster
A team of researchers using the Chandra X-Ray Observatory have spotted a wave of hot gas larger than the Milky…