On Friday at Cape Canaveral, SpaceX launched a Dragon spacecraft on a cargo delivery mission to the International Space Station. With a modest amateur telescope, astrophotographer Thierry Legault in Paris imaged the shape of the Dragon, including its two solar panels, as it passed over […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
An announcement from the NASA Kepler mission: NASA’s Kepler Telescope Discovers First Earth-Size Planet in ‘Habitable Zone’ Using NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered the first Earth-size planet orbiting a star in the “habitable zone” — the range of […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A report from ESA/Hubble: A cross-section of the Universe An image of a galaxy cluster taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope gives a remarkable cross-section of the Universe, showing objects at different distances and stages in cosmic history. They range […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This week’s European Southern Observatory (ESO) scientific highlight: A Study in Scarlet This new image from ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile reveals a cloud of hydrogen called Gum 41. In the middle of this little-known nebula, brilliant hot young […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
If you missed the “Blood Moon” lunar eclipse last night (see earlier post), check out the many images posted at Spaceweather.com Realtime Image Gallery. A NASA image taken in San Jose, California Image Credit: NASA Ames Research Center/Brian Day And lots […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Tonight there will be an eclipse visible in North America (at least where the clouds part). It will start a few minutes before 1 a.m. EDT and slowly continue over the next two hours until it peaks (reaches totality) about […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
An announcement from European Southern Observatory (ESO): Chance Meeting Creates Celestial Diamond Ring Click to Enlarge Astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope in Chile have captured this eye-catching image of planetary nebula PN A66 33 — usually known as Abell […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A reader points me to this fun video showing variations of the answer to the important question: What if the Moon was a Disco Ball?
NASA JPL gives a preview of the night sky for the coming month.: What’s Up For April 2014 - “Mars at opposition, a lunar eclipse and April’s Lyrid meteor shower.”
Ira Flatow interviews astronomer Chad Trujillo about a new dwarf planet that he and his team discovered in the outer reaches of our solar system: Dwarf Planet Found at the Edge of the Solar System – Science Friday More about the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A surprising find by the European Southern Observatory (ESO): First Ring System Around Asteroid Observations at many sites in South America, including ESO’s La Silla Observatory, have made the surprise discovery that the remote asteroid Chariklo is surrounded by two […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Masking out the intense bright light a star so that the dim reflected light of its planets, especially small earth-like ones, can be seen is no easy task. As mentioned in an earlier post, a starshade is a specially designed occulter […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A press release from ESA/Hubble: New artwork unveiled at the Science with the Hubble Space Telescope IV conference Last week researchers from around the world gathered at the Accademia dei Lincei in Rome for the Science with the Hubble Space Telescope […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Many of the exoplanets discovered so far are close to their stars and therefore, like our planet Mercury, will have their rotations and orbits locked together by the tidal forces on them. (Mercury rotates three times for every two orbits […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope provides a 360 degree view in the infrared of our Milky Way galaxy : NASA’s Spitzer Telescope Brings 360-Degree View of Galaxy to Our Fingertips – NASA STS - Caption: This video shows a continually-looping infrared view of our Milky […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
International Lunar Observatory Association (ILOA) has been collaborating with the National Astronomical Observatories -Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC) & China National Space Administration (CNSA) to conduct Galaxy Imaging with the Lunar Ultraviolet Telescope aboard the Chang’e-3 lunar lander currently at Sinus Iridum on […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The BICEP2 South Pole experiment today announced evidence of gravitational waves in the very early universe. Here are some introductory level explanations of the findings: Landmark Discovery: New Results Provide Direct Evidence for Cosmic Inflation – Universe Today First glimpse of big […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
If you missed the first episode of COSMOS: A Spacetime Odyssey on Sunday, you can watch it on line: Cosmos: A SPACETIME ODYSSEY on FOX – Watch the “Standing Up In The Milky Way” Episode.
The latest episode of the CBS 60 Minutes program had a fascinating report about the new ALMA radio telescope array in the Atacama Desert, which is situated on a high plateau in Northern Chile : ALMA: Peering into the universe’s past – CBS […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
An updating of Carl Sagan‘s famous COSMOS series begins tonight with Neil deGrasse Tyson presenting the new COSMOS: A Spacetime Odyssey. Some reviews of the first show: ‘Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey’ Reboots Carl Sagan’s Landmark TV Series on Fox Tonight – […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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