Tag Archives: Astronomy
Robot Armada Might Scale New Worlds
An armada of robots may one day fly above the mountain tops of Saturn’s moon Titan, cross its vast dunes and sail in its liquid lakes.
Wolfgang Fink, visiting associate in physics at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena...
New Images of Jupiter’s Red Spots
Astronomers from the University of California, Berkeley, and the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii last month snapped high-resolution near-infrared images of the Great Red Spot, a persistent, high-pressure storm on Jupiter, as an upstart storm,...
Discovered: First Rocky Planet Outside Our Solar System
The confirmation of the nature of CoRoT-7b as the first rocky planet outside our solar system marks a significant step forward in the search for earth-like exoplanets. The detection by CoRoT (Convection ROtation and planetary Transits) and follow-up...
Stellar Light Show, And Magic Act, to Begin
Epsilon Aurigae’s unusual dimming remains mysterious, but help from amateur astronomers could change that.
Next week marks the return of both a cosmic mystery and a great opportunity for amateur astronomers.
Starting in August, the normally...
Astronomer Finds Giant Galaxy Hosting The Supermassive Black Hole
The black hole contains at least a billion times as much matter as does our Sun.
University of Hawaii astronomer Tomotsugu Goto and colleagues have discovered a giant galaxy surrounding the most distant black hole ever found. The galaxy, which...
New Way To Reproduce A Black Hole?
Despite their popularity in the science fiction genre, there is much to be learned about black holes, the mysterious regions in space once thought to be absent of light. In a paper published in the August 20 issue of Physical Review Letters,...
Space Telescopes Find Trigger-Happy Star Formation
A new study from two of NASA’s Great Observatories provides fresh insight into how some stars are born, along with a beautiful new image of a stellar nursery in our Milky Way galaxy. The research shows that radiation from massive stars...
Hubble Space Telescope Captures Rare Jupiter Collision: Astronomer Anthony Wesley
The checkout and calibration of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has been interrupted to aim the recently refurbished observatory at a new expanding spot on the giant planet Jupiter. The spot, caused by the impact of a comet or an asteroid,...
