Astronomy
ISON Appears To Be Fading, But Astronomers Keeping Eyes Peeled
A brief morning update (EST) from Karl Battams, who studies sungrazing comets at the Naval Research Laboratory, confirms social media…
Zombie ISON ‘Behaving Like A Comet’, Stunned Astronomers Say
Talk about the Comeback Kid. After Comet C/2012 S1 ISON rounded the sun yesterday afternoon, professional astronomers around the world looked…
Forging Stars – Peering Into Starbirth and Death
Some 160,000 light years away towards the constellation of Dorado (the Swordfish), is an amazing area of starbirth and death.…
ISON Watch: A Post-Perihelion Viewing Guide
"ISON Lives!!!" "ISON R.I.P..." Those are just some of the possible headlines that we've wrestled with this week, as Comet…
Anybody Want A Peanut? New Model Shows Tasty Orbital Shapes In Milky Way’s Bulge
Remember that 3-D map of the Milky Way that postulated that the center of the galaxy is shaped like a…
Kepler May Go Planet-Hunting Again! Infographic Shows How That Would Work
The planet-seeking Kepler space telescope had to stop its primary mission this summer after the failure of a second of…
Home Computers Discover Gamma-Ray Pulsars
Imagine that you're innocently running your computer in pursuit of helping data crunch a huge science project. Then, out of…
NASA Plans To Deepen Asteroid Searches With Planetary Resources
Planetary Resources Inc. -- that company that is developing a crowdsourced space telescope to search for asteroids -- is planning…
Speedy Science: Here’s Four Years Of Herschel Telescope Work In A Short Video
In just one minute, you can watch the Herschel space telescope painting the sky blue, green and yellow! The colors…