August 2009:News & Notes.
- The LRO Photographs the Apollo landing sites: Fans of this space may have noticed the racy lunar pics we ran a week back as part of our From Earth to the Moon review. The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter...
View Article24.10.09: Enceladan Seas?
Move over Europa ; yet another moon may harbor a subsurface sea. Saturn’s moon Enceladus has been inching its way up the charts as of late as a candidate world for extraterrestrial life. Barely 300...
View Article17.04.10- The Case of the Vanishing Moon: Solved.
The scale of the enormous and thin Phoebe Ring as recently imaged by Spitzer. Since its discovery by Giovanni Cassini in 1671, Saturns moon Iapetus has confounded astronomers. Even early on,...
View Article19.04.10- The Rise of WISE.
Spiral galaxy IC 342 shows its stuff in infrared! NASA has a new orbiting infrared eye on the universe. WISE, the Wide-field Infrared Space Explorer, is now open for business, and returning some fairly...
View Article02.05.10- Star-birth in the Early Universe.
A comparision of an ancient spiral galaxy in visible (left) and Infrared (right). Astronomers are shedding new light across the spectrum on an old cosmological mystery. Its well documented that the...
View Article11.05.10: Ancient Galaxy Mergers.
Astronomers may have found a cosmological missing link in the realm of galactic evolution. The early universe was a crowded place; galaxy mergers must have been much more common in the primeval...
View ArticleAstroEvent: When will Epsilon Aurigae Brighten?
Epsilon Aurigae: A finder chart. (Photo and graphics by the Author). One of the strangest variable stars is worth watching this spring. Back in 2009, we alerted viewers to monitor the curious...
View Article15.03.11: A Borderline Brown Dwarf.
A brown dwarf family portrait bracketed by our sun & Jupiter. (Artist’s conception: NASA/JPL/CalTech). Oh Be A Fine Girl/Guy Kiss Me Now the mnemonic for stellar classification running from...
View Article24.05.11: Throwing Exo-Planets into The Blender.
Artists’ conception of the Kepler-10 system. (Credit: NASA/Ames/JPL/CALTech). On Monday, scientists unveiled a powerful new technique to quickly validate transiting exoplanets. The method, known as the...
View ArticleReview: Dreams of Other Worlds by Chris Impey and Holly Henry
On sale now! Robotic space exploration has finally come of age. Recent successes, such as the pioneering landing via sky crane of the Mars Rover Curiosity by NASA have demonstrated a capability to...
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