An entry at Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News reports on a big fireball over New Mexico. They are looking for security camera and cell phone captures of the event: NM Large Fireball Meteor 06MAR2014 with video capture / coming soon Breaking News -NM […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s an announcement from the ESA Hubble Telescope group: Hubble witnesses an asteroid mysteriously disintegrating The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has photographed the never-before-seen break-up of an asteroid, which has fragmented into as many as ten smaller pieces. Although fragile […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Despite the suspension of observations with the Kepler planet-finder telescope, lots of planets continue to be found in the massive amount of data that was collected while it was working. NASA’s Kepler Mission Announces a Planet Bonanza, 715 New Worlds […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey released this impressive visualization of 100,000 asteroids. From the caption: Over 100,000 asteroids and their colors, as seen by a single remarkable survey telescope. This animation shows the orbital motions of over 100,000 of the asteroids observed […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Bruce Betts, of the Planetary Society and California State University Dominguez Hills, opens his new 13 week astronomy course with the following video: Intro Astronomy Class 1: Tour of the Solar System – The Planetary Society Subscribe at csuDHTV – YouTube to get notices when […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Astronomy Legacy Project, supported by the nonprofit Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute (PARI), has opened an Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign to raise $60,000 to finance their program of digitizing stellar photographic films and plates: Before the invention of digital cameras in the 1990′s, and for […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
An announcement from the ESO (European Southern Observatory): The Anatomy of an Asteroid ESO’s New Technology Telescope (NTT) has been used to find the first evidence that asteroids can have a highly varied internal structure. By making exquisitely precise measurements […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
NASA JPL tells what’s up in the sky to see for the month of February:
Zooniverse has opened a new citizen science program called Disk Detective: Scientists are combing our galaxy looking for stars that could be harbouring planet-forming disks. They need your help to explain this puzzling part of stellar evolution! What is WISE looking for? […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Via SpaceX (SpaceX) on Twitter comes a pointer to this rather humbling depiction of our place in the universe: From the caption: The Known Universe takes viewers from the Himalayas through our atmosphere and the inky black of space to the afterglow […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Though not actually imaging its surface, I still find it amazing that the surface of an object the size and distance of a brown dwarf can now be studied: First Weather Map of Brown Dwarf ESO’s VLT charts surface of […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A rare supernova was observed last night in a relatively close galaxy – Messier 82 (M82) – “just” 11.4 million light years away. The supernova is visible in amateur grade telescopes” Super-close supernova in M82 – The Planetary Society Bright […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I scanned blogs of some of the space related citizen science projects at Zooniverse and turned up this items: Lunar Launches of 2013 – Moon Zoo - A review of recent lunar missions and a look at what is planned for the next […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s an announcement from ESO (European Southern Observatory): First Planet Found Around Solar Twin in Star Cluster Six-year search with HARPS finds three new planets in Messier 67 Astronomers have used ESO’s HARPS planet hunter in Chile, along with other telescopes […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s a Planetary Society report on the making of one of the seven mirrors for the Giant Magellan Telescope, which should become operational in 2020. From the caption: After spending three months cooling, the GMT’s third mirror was removed from its […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The BBC Two Stargazing LIVE program has been urging its viewers to participate in the project SpaceWarps, which is one of several citizen science projects sponsored by the Zooniverse organization. In SpaceWarps participants examine celestial images in search of the very rare cases where the gravitational effects of […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The 223rd Meeting of the American Astronomical Society is taking place in Washington this week. Exoplanets and the Kepler observatory have been a topic of discussion today. Jeff Foust is posting notes from some of the presentations: Jeff Foust (jeff_foust) on Twitter. === The […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
There is a new version available of the Space Engine simulation program: SpaceEngine - a free space simulation program that lets you explore the universe in three dimensions, from planet Earth to the most distant galaxies. Areas of the known universe are represented […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
NASA JPL’s “What’s Up for January 1914″ describes the night sky for the coming month: Jupiter at opposition. Venus at conjunction. A Juno mission update. And the Quadrantid meteor shower.
A reader points me to the Physics Help and Math Help – Physics Forums, which includes a General Astronomy Forum and an Astrophysics Forum. Lots more physics and science links in the HobbySpace Science & Technology section.
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