Astronomy
NASA Unveils Thrilling First Full Frame Images of Vesta from Dawn
[/caption] NASA has just released the first full frame images of Vesta- and they are thrilling! The new images unveil…
Japanese Astronomy Pushes on After Hard Year
[/caption] From faulty spacecraft to two damaged facilities, the past year has been a tough year for Japan's astronomical programs.…
Alone In The Dark?
[/caption] Two years ago, Marla Geha, a Yale University astronomer, Joshua Simon from the Carnegie Institution of Washington, and their…
Voorwerpje… And Away!
[/caption]It's 28 pages long and it has been submitted to the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. It's filled…
Applying the Titius-Bode Rule to Exoplanet Systems
One of the key methods employed in the practice of the sciences is the search for patterns. Their discovery often…
Dawn Spirals Down Closer to Vesta’s South Pole Impact Basin
[/caption] NASA's Dawn Asteroid Orbiter is now spiraling down ever closer to the protoplanet Vesta - since arriving on July…
Cosmic Bullseye: Auriga’s Wheel
[/caption] One of the strangest types of galaxies are those known as ring galaxies. Examples of these include Hoag's Object…
Caught In The Web… Space Spider!
[/caption] Look, he's crawling up my wall... Black and hairy, very small... Now he's up above my head... Hanging by…
Elliptical Galaxies Don’t Act Their Age…
[/caption] Thanks to images taken with the MegaCam camera mounted on the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT, CNRC/CNRS/University of Hawaii), researchers are…
Pan-STARRS Discovers two Super Supernovae
[/caption] Supernovae are the brightest phenomenon in the current universe. As massive stars die as supernovae, they briefly outshine the…