February 2020 - Earl's Astro Site

February 28, 2020 Astronomy

C/2019 Y4 ( ATLAS )

C/2019 Y4 ( ATLAS ) A new name eye comet for 2020? Source: www.aerith.net/comet/catalog/2019Y4/2019Y4.html

The resonances between Indigenous art and images captured by microscopes A new exhibition pairs paintings by Indigenous Australian artists with microscopic images captured by scientists. The parallels are intriguing.

February 25, 2020 Exoplanets

Sub-Neptune sized planet validated with the Habitable-zone Planet Finder

A signal originally detected by the Kepler spacecraft has been validated as an exoplanet using the Habitable-zone Planet Finder (HPF), an astronomical spectrograph built by a Penn State team and

February 24, 2020 Astronomy / Cosmology

Astronomers Discover Class of Strange Objects Near Our Galaxy’s Enormous Black Hole

Astronomers Discover Class of Strange Objects Near Our Galaxy’s Enormous Black Hole – W. M. Keck Observatory The Keck Observatory telescopes on Maunakea in Hawaii, are the world’s

February 23, 2020 Exoplanets

New Exoplanet Search Strategy Claims First Discovery

New Exoplanet Search Strategy Claims First Discovery | Quanta Magazine By watching for a special kind of flare, astronomers have identified the fingerprints of an Earth-size planet orbiting a

February 13, 2020 Mars

SwRI models hint at longer timescale for Mars formation

SwRI models hint at longer timescale for Mars formation The early solar system was a chaotic place, with evidence indicating that Mars was likely struck by planetesimals, small protoplanets