Astronomy
The Carina Nebula. Seen With and Without Adaptive Optics
Ever wonder how modern astronomical observatories take such clear images of distant objects? Advances in mirror design have allowed for…
What’s Possible When Earth and Space-based Telescopes Work Together?
Anyone who has ever worked on a team knows that their strength lies in coordination and a shared vision. However,…
Antarctica Is the Best Place On Earth for a Telescope, Is Also the Hardest Place to Put a Telescope
Twinkling stars might make for spectacular viewing on a hot summer’s night, but they are an absolute nightmare to astronomers.…
This Is Fascinating. An Image of a Galaxy’s Magnetic Field
There’s always more than one way to look at the world. There’s also more than one way to look at…
Astronomers Do the Math to Figure Out Exactly When Johannes Vermeer Painted this, More than 350 Years Ago
Most of us will be forgotten only a generation or two after we pass. But some few of us will…
Curiosity Sees Earth and Venus in the Night Skies on Mars
Normally the images from NASA’s Curiosity rover, currently sitting near “Bloodstone Hill” on Mars, are of alien vistas and rock…
At cosmic distances, even the speed of light is really slow
The speed of light is the absolute fastest thing in the universe, clocking in at a whopping 299,792,458 meters per…
James Webb is Fully Stowed Into its Launch Configuration
We're inching closer and closer to the James Webb Space Telescope's (JWST) launch date of March 30th, 2021, (or maybe…
Astronomers Have Some Serious Concerns About Starlink and Other Satellite Constellations
Picture the space around Earth filled with tens of thousands of communications satellites. That scenario is slowly coming into being,…
Here Comes the Next Satellite Constellation. OneWeb Launches 34 Satellites on Thursday
SpaceX has been garnering all the headlines when it comes to satellite constellations. Their Starlink system will eventually have thousands…