Astronomy
Send Us Your Perseid Images!
[/caption] This weekend should be the peak of the 2011 Perseid meteor shower. If you have any luck taking images…
Graphenes In Spaaaaaace!
[/caption] And just where have your buckyballs been lately? More technically known as fullerenes, this magnetic form of carbon shows…
The Hidden Galaxy in the Zone of Avoidance
[/caption] There are some places astronomers dare not tread. One of the prime places is beyond the disk of our…
Juno Spacecraft Honors Those Who Started It All
[/caption] The Juno spacecraft, now safely on its way to the planet Jupiter, is carrying along with it several artifacts…
Searching For Gravitational Waves
[/caption]Colliding neutron stars and black holes, supernova events, rotating neutron stars and other cataclysmic cosmic events… Einstein predicted they would…
96 New Reasons To Love Star Clusters
[/caption] "Ninety-six clusters of stars in the sky.... Ninety-six clusters of stars... You take one down and pass it around..."…
Juno Blasts off on Science Trek to Discover Jupiter’s Genesis
[/caption] NASA’s solar powered Juno spacecraft blasted off today (Aug.5)from Cape Canaveral today to begin a 2.8 billion kilometer science…
Two More Kepler Planets Confirmed
[/caption] Hot on the heels of confirming one Kepler planet, the Hobby-Eberly Telescope announces the confirmation of another planet. Another…
Juno Jupiter Orbiter poised at Launch Pad for Aug. 5 Blastoff
[/caption] The Atlas V rocket that will power NASA’s new Juno science probe to Jupiter was rolled out to the…
“Snow White” or “Rose Red” (2007 OR10)
Discovered in 2007 by former graduate student Meg Schwamb, dwarf planet Snow White orbits at the edge of the Solar…