Astronomy
Help! My Stars are Leaking!
[/caption] Star clusters are wonderful test beds for theories of stellar formation and evolution. One of the key roles they…
Senate Saves the James Webb Space Telescope!
The 2012 fiscal year appropriation bill, marked up today by the Senate, allows for continued funding of the James Webb…
Gas, Not Galaxy Collisions Responsible for Star Formation in Early Universe
[/caption] Was the universe a kinder, gentler place in the past that we have thought? The Herschel space observatory has…
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NASA launches Twin Lunar Probes to Unravel Moons Core
[/caption] NASA renewed its focus on ground breaking science today with the thunderous blastoff of a pair of lunar bound…
Backyard Science: How You Can Make a Difference
[/caption] It's a great time to be an amateur astronomer! Nowadays, "backyard" astronomers armed with affordable CCD imagers, high-quality tracking mounts, inexpensive…
Where’s the Debris for Transiting Planets?
For many exoplanet systems that have been discovered by the radial velocity method, astronomers have found excess emission in the…
HARPS Tunes In On Habitable Planet
[/caption] Using the High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS), a team of scientists at University of Geneva, Switzerland, led…
How to See a Supernova From Your Backyard This Weekend
The timing couldn't be better. A new supernova, named PTF11kly, which was discovered on August. 24, 2011 is continuing to…
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James Webb Space Telescope Nearing Completion
[/caption] The James Webb Space Telescope or JWST has long been touted as the replacement for the Hubble Space Telescope.…
Hubble Movies “Star” Supersonic Jets
[/caption]Don't you know that you are a shooting star... Thanks to the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, an international team of…