Astronomy
Zoom to the Moon’s North Pole with this Incredible New Gigapixel Map
OMG - breathtaking! That was my reaction when I clicked on this incredible new interactive map of the moon's north…
First Microlensing Detection of a Planet Circling a Brown Dwarf Candidate
When astronomers detect new exoplanets they typically do so using one of two techniques. First, there's the famous transit technique,…
Dusty Galaxies Shine Across The Universe In New Herschel Survey
While dust is easy to ignore in small quantities (says the writer looking at her desk), across vast reaches of…
Get Set For Comet K1 PanSTARRS: A Guide to its Spring Appearance
Get those binoculars ready: an icy interloper from the Oort cloud is about to grace the night sky. The comet…
Landmark Discovery: New Results Provide Direct Evidence for Cosmic Inflation
Astronomers have announced Nobel Prize-worthy evidence of primordial gravitational waves — ripples in the fabric of spacetime — providing the first…
Till Hellas Freezes Over – See Frost and Clouds in Mars’ Largest Crater
Earth's changing weather always makes life interesting. Seeing weather on other planets through a telescope we sense a kinship between…
Hubble Captures Starbirth In A Monkey’s Head As Telescope Approaches 24 Years In Space
Billowing gas clouds and young stars feature in this February Hubble Space Telescope image, released as the telescope approaches its…
Rumors Flying Nearly as Fast as Their Subject: Have Gravitational Waves Been Detected?
Last week the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) stated rather nonchalantly that they will be hosting a press conference on…
New Comet Jacques May Pass 8.4 million miles from Venus this July
Congratulations to Cristovao Jacques and the SONEAR team! On March 13 they snared C/2014 E2 (Jacques) in CCD images taken with a…
- Astronomy
- Extrasolar Planets
- Observing
- Orion
- Planetary Formation
- Solar System
- Stars
- Stellar Evolution
- supernova
“Death Stars” Caught Blasting Proto-Planets
It’s a tough old universe out there. A young star has lots to worry about, as massive stars just beginning…