Astronomy
The Case of the Missing White Dwarf
Despite their name, planetary nebulae have nothing to do with planets. They're created when stars like our Sun enter the…
Largest Picture of the Milky Way Unveiled
The Milky Way is a large place, and getting all the stars together, even from just the inner galaxy, for…
Watch Press Conferences on Astronomy Cast LIVE
UPDATE: NEW LINK for Noon conference Wish you were here? Join us today from the AAS meeting in St. Louis.…
Double Your Science: Starburst Galaxies Found with Active Quasars
Astronomers now know that essentially every galaxy has a supermassive black hole at its center. When the black hole is…
Astronomers Weigh the Coolest Brown Dwarfs
Pity the poor brown dwarf; a star wannabe. With as little as 3% the mass of the Sun, brown dwarfs…
Famous People Wandering the Halls of AAS
Walking the halls of the AAS meetings we found Galileo Galilei, who actually looks pretty good for being 440 years…
How To Weigh a Black Hole: Just Look At Its Galaxy
My father was a rancher, who had the uncanny ability to accurately estimate the weight of each animal in his…
Get Ready for High-Energy GLAST
It's not hard to grab someone's attention when you mention the words "super massive black holes," "gamma ray bursts," "cosmic…
Meet Us in St. Louis
I'll be attending the American Astronomical Society/Astronomy Society of the Pacific Meeting in St. Louis for the next few days,…
Eta Carinae and the “Cosmic Cauldron” in Unprecedented Detail – New Images from the VLT
To celebrate the Very Large Telescope's (VLT) 10th birthday on Tuesday, it was us who received the gifts. The European…