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Dr. Tracy Becker Honored with 2023 Carl Sagan Medal for Science Communication
This year’s prestigious Carl Sagan Medal, also known as the “Sagan Medal” and named after the late astronomer, Dr. Carl…
The Dark Energy Survey Begins to Reveal Previously Unknown Trans-Neptunian Objects
Sometimes when you stare at something long enough, you begin to see things. This is not the case with optical…
‘Mega-Earth’ And Doomed Planets Top Today’s Exoplanet Finds
Can you imagine a world that is 17 times as massive as Earth, but still rocky? Or two planets that…
Weekly Space Hangout – January 10, 2014: Wake Up, Rosetta! & Top Stories from AAS
Host: Fraser Cain Guests: David Dickinson, Amy Shira Teitel, Scott Lewis, Brian Koberlein, special guest Ruth McAvinia from the ESA…
Astronomers Witness a Web of Dark Matter
[/caption] We can't see it, we can't feel it, we can't even interact with it... but dark matter may very…
Want Astronomy Apps? There’s a Catalog for That
[/caption] With the plethora of mobile apps now available for astronomy applications, it's hard to keep track of them all.…
Hubble Finds “Oddball” Stars in Milky Way Hub
Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope to peer deep into the central bulge of our galaxy have found a population…
Multi-Planet Systems Common in Kepler Findings
[/caption] Of the 1235 planetary candidates that NASA's Kepler space telescope has found so far, 408 reside in multiple-planet…
WISE “First Light” Image Released
Caption: WISE First Light image. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA "In many respects, the most important moment for a telescope is its…
Milky Way Has a “Squashed Beachball”-Shaped Dark Matter Halo
This illustration shows the visible Milky Way galaxy surrounded by a "squashed beachball"-shaped dark matter halo. Source: UCLA Our galaxy…