… and Jupiter, while we’re at it.
An Australian amateur astronomer named Bird (or, IRL, Anthony Wesley) just spotted something slamming into Jupiter – a collision that’s been confirmed by the big […]
An Australian amateur astronomer named Bird (or, IRL, Anthony Wesley) just spotted something slamming into Jupiter – a collision that’s been confirmed by the big […]
The archives of Space.com have produced an old but strikingly weird story about a strikingly weird discovery – a second moon orbiting invisibly around Earth: […]
Click to embiggen slightly On September 15, 2006, the Cassini Space Probe had its historic rendezvous with Saturn, giving us – five days later – […]
National Geographic breaks the worrying news that Betelgeuse is shrinking: Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, first measured the star in 1993 with an […]
Click to embiggen vastly You can read the full story on Hubblesite.org; the short version – Hubble found this planet in 1998, but nobody realized […]
The Guardian explains an awful lot about how things have gotten so out of hand for so very, very long by revealing proof that we’re […]
Science Daily blows a hole in what had been history’s biggest explosion with news that that colossal asteroid that made the Yucatan might not have […]
Mmmmaybe. At least, that’s what the Telegraph is saying. They’ve talked to astronomers and are now raising the alarm (and our stress levels) with thoughts […]
The sextant is an instrument that lets you know where you are by determining the sun’s location in the sky – how far above the […]
Click to embiggen vastly Topographic radar images of two Hawaiian islands. Rainbows in a void. You can read more about the image at NASA’s gallery.
Click to embiggen Taken at the Lockheed facility, the image shows “the optical metering truss and secondary baffle.” And important-looking people in orange jumpsuits, evidently […]
Click to embiggen The Explorer VII satellite, carried into space aboard a Juno II rocket on October 13, 1959. It weighed 91.5 pounds, and analyzed […]
Click to embiggen Jupiter’s volcanic moon Io, as seen from the Galileo space probe. The blue background is a false-color overlay of Jupiter’s swirling clouds. […]
We are surrounded, NASA astronomers now say, by flux transfer events – fast-moving, invisible tunnels to the Sun: A magnetic portal will open, linking Earth […]
Click to embiggen A diagram. An iconic diagram. This is America’s answer to Sputnik, the Explorer I satellite, launched aboard the Jupiter C rocket on […]
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