A member of the Susquehanna Astronomical Society points me to a couple of recent news items of interest starting with an update on The Square Kilometre Array: Headquarters opening ceremony for the world’s largest radio telescope – Susquehanna Astronomical Society […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Earlier this year participants in the Planet Hunters citizen science project confirmed with 99.9 percent confidence the discovery of a Jupiter-sized planet called PH2b orbiting within the “habitable zone” of its star, the range where earth-like planets could have liquid water […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This NASA ScienceCast program describes this May night sky: The three brightest planets in this month’s night sky are lining up for a beautiful sunset conjunction at the end of May.
Amateur astronomer Patrick Wiggins captured images of the visible light from the largest gamma-ray burst ever recorded. GRBs are seldom bright enough to be seen with amateur telescopes but this one was especially energetic across the spectrum and for several […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A reader points me to the news that Grote Reber, a ham radio operator and amateur astronomer, has been inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame for his invention of the radio telescope: Grote Reber Inducted into National Inventors […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A scan of of what’s happening with the space related citizen science projects at Zooniverse: Galaxy Zoo – To understand how galaxies formed participants help to classify them according to their shapes. Next GZ Hangout: Thursday, May 9th, 15:00 GMT […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A new citizen science project from Zooniverse is titled Space Warps. This project is a gravitational lens discovery engine. Large astronomical surveys can use Space Warps to find gravitational lenses in their data through the collaborative efforts of citizen scientists. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
NASA’s What’s up for May 2013? describes the night sky for the coming month: ************************** Shop Amazon Gold Box – New Deals. Everyday
The latest NASA ScienceCast focuses on observations of the Saturn system with telescopes and Cassini images: Saturn and Earth are lining up for a beautiful view of the ringed planet. Saturn will be at its best and brightest on April […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Nature has this report on the naming of exoplanets and Pluto’s moons: Moon and planet names spark battle: Company clashes with International Astronomical Union over popular labels for exoplanets – Nature News & Comment === Meanwhile, the Uwingu contest to […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The latest episode of NASA ScienceCasts video reports on Sungrazing Comet ISON, expected to become a bright naked-eye object later this year, might dust the Earth with meteoroids in early 2014.
Here’s the video of the press briefing about today’s KeplerObservatory announcement on the finding of three earth-scale exoplanets in habitable zones of their stars (see earlier post):
The latest results from the Kepler observatory: NASA’s Kepler Discovers its Smallest ‘Habitable Zone’ Planets to Date MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. — NASA’s Kepler mission has discovered two new planetary systems that include three super-Earth-size planets in the “habitable zone,” the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
An announcement from Andrew Fraknoi, chairman of the Astronomy program at Foothill College: Popular Astronomy Lectures Can Now Be Seen on YouTube We are happy to announce that the Silicon Valley Astronomy Lectures, featuring noted scientists giving nontechnical illustrated lectures […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It appears the IAU misleads the public by claiming Uwingu was doing something wrong in asking the public to participate in simply nominating names for exoplants. It also misleads in claiming that it’s role in technical nomenclature given to it […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The very successful exoplanet finding spacecraft Kepler continues to have problems with a reaction wheel. If it fails this will cripple the mission if not end it completely: Kepler reaction wheel still problematic after mitigation – Spaceflight Now
Good to hear that there will be a follow up mission to the Kepler space observatory dedicated to finding exoplanets: NASA chooses all-sky planet hunter, neutron star watcher for liftoff in 2017 – Cosmic Log NASA Selects Explorer Investigations for […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Last month, Sam Ting, head of the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS-02) experiment on the International Space Station hinted that they have found some very interesting results. (See Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer to release first results -BBC – Feb.18.13.) Tomorrow the results […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s a ScienceCast report on the possibility that Comet 2013 A1 will hit Mars: ScienceCasts: Collision Course? A Comet Heads for Mars – YouTube A comet is heading for Mars, and there is a chance that it might hit the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A large bright meteor over the US East Coast on Friday evening got lots of attention: Reports about East Coast meteor flood in, setting off a media scramble – Cosmic Log Meteor Spotted In DC Area Skies on Friday Evening […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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