Astronomy
Dust Shells Seen for the First Time Around Dying Stars
[/caption] Stars get pretty sloppy towards the end of their lives. As the nuclear fuels start to wane, the star…
Great ISS Sightings – All Nights this Week of April 9
[/caption] Calling all Skywatching and Space Fans ! This is a great week for observing the International Space Station (ISS),…
Was This Ancient Monolith a Stone Age Astronomy Tool?
[/caption] Is this 2-meter-high slab of lichen-covered rock in a UK park an astronomical marker used by Neolithic people? Researchers…
Weekly SkyWatcher’s Forecast – March 26 to April 1, 2012
Greetings, fellow SkyWatchers! Have you been following the supernova in M95 (R.A. = 10 43 53.76, Decl. = +11 40…
How NASA Will Improve its Telescopes’ Vision
[/caption] Most of us have experienced the frustration of pollution, fog, or clouds turning a night of stargazing into an…
Our Early Universe: Inflation, or Something Totally Wacky?
[/caption] Astronomers generally accept the theory that our universe looks the way it does because of cosmic inflation -- rapid…
Citizen Scientist Project Finds Thousands of ‘Star Bubbles’
[/caption] Remember when you were a kid and blowing bubbles was such great fun? Well, stars kind of do that…
Goldilocks Moons
[/caption] The search for extraterrestrial life outside our Solar System is currently focused on extrasolar planets within the 'habitable zones'…
Astronomers Find Saturn’s Possible Cosmic Doppelgänger
[/caption] By analyzing the silhouette of an exoplanet passing in front of its parent star some 420 light years from…
Scientists Find Trio of Tiny Exoplanets
[/caption] NASA’s Kepler mission has detected no shortage of planets; more than a thousand candidates were discovered in 2011, a…