• Astronomers have found a planet like Earth orbiting a star like the sun

    Astronomers have found a planet like Earth orbiting a star like the sun

    Astronomers have found a planet like Earth orbiting a star like the sun   The discovery of the exoplanet KOI-456.04 orbiting the star Kepler-160 suggests we should more aggressively look for habitable planets around sun-like stars. Source: www.technologyreview.com/2020/06/05/1002831/kepler-160-koi-456-04-earth-sun-exoplanet-habitable/

  • NASA’s Long-Delayed Return To Human Spaceflight

    NASA’s Long-Delayed Return To Human Spaceflight

    NASA’s Long-Delayed Return To Human Spaceflight   With the launch of the SpaceX Demo-2 mission, the United States has achieved something it hasn’t done in nearly a decade: put a human into low Earth orbit with a domestic booster and vehicle.… Source: hackaday.com/2020/06/01/nasas-long-delayed-return-to-human-spaceflight/

  • The History and Future of Telescopes on the Moon

    The History and Future of Telescopes on the Moon

    The History and Future of Telescopes on the Moon   For generations, astronomers have dreamed of building telescopes on the lunar farside. Source: www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/the-history-and-future-of-telescopes-on-the-moon

  • Scientist captures new images of Martian moon Phobos to help determine its origins

    Scientist captures new images of Martian moon Phobos to help determine its origins

    Scientist captures new images of Martian moon Phobos to help determine its origins Christopher Edwards, assistant professor in Northern Arizona University’s Department of Astronomy and Planetary Science, just processed new images of the Martian moon Phobos that give scientists insight into the physical properties of the moon and its composition. Source: www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-06/nau-scn060220.php

  • Did Mars Once Have a Ring?

    Did Mars Once Have a Ring?

    We Just Got Even More Evidence Mars Once Had a Ring   Mars – glorious, dusty, complex Mars – may once have been even more dazzling. New research provides even more evidence that a rubbly ring once circled the Red Planet. Source: www.sciencealert.com/the-weird-orbit-of-mars-moon-suggests-the-red-planet-once-had-a-ring

  • Texas Astronomer Uses His 25-year-old Hubble Data to Confirm Planet Proxima Centauri c

    Texas Astronomer Uses His 25-year-old Hubble Data to Confirm Planet Proxima Centauri c

    Texas Astronomer Uses His 25-year-old Hubble Data to Confirm Planet Proxima Centauri c   Fritz Benedict used data he collected from the Hubble Space Telescope to confirm the existence of Proxima c, the third known planet orbiting the star closest to our sun. Photo credit: NASA. Fritz Benedict has used data he took over two…

  • Oumuamua Might Be a Giant Interstellar Hydrogen Iceberg

    Oumuamua Might Be a Giant Interstellar Hydrogen Iceberg

    ‘Oumuamua Might Be a Giant Interstellar Hydrogen Iceberg   It isn’t an alien spaceship, but new research suggests the first known interstellar object to grace our solar system could be something even stranger. Source: www.wired.com/story/oumuamua-might-be-a-giant-interstellar-hydrogen-iceberg

  • New Australian infrared telescope to spot cosmic hidden treasures

    New Australian infrared telescope to spot cosmic hidden treasures

    New infrared telescope to spot cosmic hidden treasures   A new infrared telescope, to be designed and built by astronomers at The Australian National University (ANU), will monitor the entire southern sky in search of new cosmic events as they take place. DREAMS – the Dynamic REd All-Sky Monitoring Survey – will be located at…

  • Half the matter in the universe was missing – we found it hiding in the cosmos

    Half the matter in the universe was missing – we found it hiding in the cosmos

    Half the matter in the universe was missing – we found it hiding in the cosmos   Cosmologists had only been able to find half the matter that should exist in the universe. With the discovery of a new astronomical phenomenon and new telescopes, researchers just found the rest. Source: theconversation.com/half-the-matter-in-the-universe-was-missing-we-found-it-hiding-in-the-cosmos-138569

  • The Dinosaur-Killer Asteroid May Have Hit Earth at ‘Deadliest Possible’ Angle

    The Dinosaur-Killer Asteroid May Have Hit Earth at ‘Deadliest Possible’ Angle

    The Dinosaur-Killer Asteroid May Have Hit Earth at ‘Deadliest Possible’ Angle   This much we knew: some 66 million years ago an asteroid roughly twice the diameter of Paris crashed into Earth, wiping out all land-dwelling dinosaurs and 75 percent of life on the planet. Source: www.sciencealert.com/the-asteroid-that-killed-the-dinosaurs-could-have-hit-earth-at-deadliest-possible-angle

  • The cosmic life of ‘Celestial Handbook’ author Robert Burnham Jr.

    The cosmic life of ‘Celestial Handbook’ author Robert Burnham Jr.

      Sky Writer: The cosmic life of ‘Celestial Handbook’ author Robert Burnham Jr. | The Underground Bunker Every serious amateur astronomer has a set of the three volume “Celestial Handbook”, possibly a bit rough and dog eared from years of constant thumbing through. This is the story behind the author of some of the all…

  • What is a Plossl eyepiece?

    What is a Plossl eyepiece?

      What is a Plössl eyepiece? Plossl are some of the most popular low cost eyepieces for telescope users. A good explanation! Source: www.skyatnightmagazine.com/advice/what-is-a-plossl-eyepiece/

  • Sun ‘less active’ than similar stars

    Sun ‘less active’ than similar stars

      The Sun is less magnetically active and shows less variability in its brightness than similar stars in the galaxy, scientists say. To come to this conclusion, published in the journal Science, they analysed 369 candidate stars selected because they resemble the Sun in decisive properties. “These stars appear nearly identical to the Sun except for their higher variability.…

  • Sandia National Laboratories:				Seeing stars

    Sandia National Laboratories: Seeing stars

      Sandia National Laboratories: Seeing stars   Sandia team designs a new way for additive manufacturing Source: www.sandia.gov/news/publications/labnews/articles/2018/16-02/telescope.html

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