Airplane telescope flies its first observation mission
The telescope in an airplane flew its first observation mission today.
Tag: astronomy
Three times more stars exist than previously thought
There are more stars in heaven and earth than have been dreamt of by scientists, three times more it turns out. And they are all dwarves!
A Steamy Super-Earth?
Cassini Finds Warm Cracks on Enceladus
Cassini pinpoints the hot spots in the cracks on Enceladus.
How One Astronomer Became the Unofficial Exoplanet Record Keeper
How one astronomer became the unofficial exoplanet record keeper.
Jupiter’s stripe is coming back.
Jupiter’s south equatorial stripe appears to be reappearing.
Brian Marsden, 1937-2010
Saving NASA’s astrophysics budget and Webb
The struggle to find $1.5 billion to save NASA’s astrophysics budget as well as the overbudget James Webb Space Telescope. Note that this article once again allows a variety of NASA managers and scientists push the false story that Webb is a replacement for Hubble. It is not. Hubble looks at the universe mostly in optical wavelengths, as our eyes do. Webb will be an infrared telescope. It will do wonderful things, but different things than Hubble.
500th exoplanet found
The numbering ain’t really that precise, but today scientists announced the discovery of the 500th extrasolar planet.
Pluto a planet?
Scientists are once again debating whether Pluto really is a planet.
A glimpse at the universe before the Big Bang?
A glimpse at the universe before the Big Bang?
It came from another galaxy
It came from another galaxy.