German-Russian Astronomy Satellite Launches – Sky & Telescope
Spektrum-Röntgen-Gamma, a long-delayed and much-modified X-ray astronomy package carrying the EROSITA telescope, launched successfully on Saturday.
Spektrum-Röntgen-Gamma, a long-delayed and much-modified X-ray astronomy package carrying the EROSITA telescope, launched successfully on Saturday.
Move aside Tabby’s star – a new enigmatic star observed by K2 looks to have taken the title of the “most mysterious star in the galaxy” – HD 139139. Here I’ll tr…
Source: www.hughosborn.co.uk/2019/06/29/why-the-random-transiter-is-the-most-mysterious-star-in-the-galaxy/
To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the historical experiment which verified Einstein’s theory of General Relativity, a team of astronomers will measure again the deflection of starlight in the vicinity of the Sun’s gravitational field during the July 2 2019 total solar eclipse in Chile !
Does the Orion Nebula Cluster actually include three distinct stellar populations? Or is it all just a bunch of unresolved binaries and triple systems?
Source: astrobites.org/2019/05/24/mysteries-of-the-orion-nebula-cluster/