Space
- On the Hunt for Wobbling Circumbinary Alien Planets
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Observations made by the Kepler spacecraft have shown that Kepler-413b is a very wobbling exoplanet. The planet's orbit is unusual in that it is tilted 2.5 degrees with respect to the plane of the binary star's orbit. ...
Blog Post - Tomasz Nowakowski - Aug 31 2014 - 12:36pm
- Russian Capsule Lands with Dead Sex Geckos
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Blog Post - Tomasz Nowakowski - Sep 1 2014 - 7:56pm
- Earth's New Address Is...A Tiny Part Of The Laniakea Galactic Supercluster
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You have a new galactic address; astronomers have determined that our own Milky Way galaxy is part of a newly identified enormous supercluster of galaxies- dubbed "Laniakea," which means "immense heaven" in Hawaiian. This discovery bro ...
Article - News Staff - Sep 4 2014 - 1:05am
- Where Are We In The Universe?
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By Tanya Hill, University of Melbourne Have you ever considered our cosmic address? It’s a fun device I’ve often used to help students get a grasp on our place in the universe. For example, I work at the Melbourne Planetarium, 2 Booker St, Spotswood, Vic ...
Article - The Conversation - Sep 4 2014 - 9:30am
- Asteroid 2014RC will not hit us. What could we do if it were?
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2014RC is a 60 foot (or about 20 meter) wide asteroid detected at the last possible minute. This small asteroid will not hit Earth. What about the ones like it that eventually will? I ask that question because it is a certainty the last time Earth was ...
Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Sep 8 2014 - 2:04pm
- Asteroid 2014 RC Ready To Buzz Earth
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Asteroid 2014 RC will buzz the Earth today. But don't be alarmed. The small asteroid was initially discovered on the night of August 31st by the Catalina Sky Survey near Tucson, AZ, and independently detected the next night by the Pan-STARRS 1 telesc ...
Article - News Staff - Sep 7 2014 - 11:32am
- Curious Space Particles May Kick-Start Formation Of Planets And Stars
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The Orion Nebula. Image credit: NASA http://bit.ly/1rTTyeC By: Marcus Woo, Inside Science (Inside Science)-- Interstellar space can be a dusty place, filled with tiny flecks no bigger than a bacterial cell. But now astronomers have detected particles as b ...
Article - Inside Science - Sep 9 2014 - 7:30am
- Let's play Impact Crater or not Impact Crater.
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The minor controversy over whether the 38 foot wide gouge near Managua Nicaragua is a impact crater leads me to the question, how easy is it to tell by sight alone if something is an impact crater or not? So let's play crater or not crater. To find ...
Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Sep 12 2014 - 1:20pm
- Regularity Versus Diversity: Mysterious Quasar Sequence Explained
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Quasars are supermassive black holes that live at the center of distant galaxies. They are the most luminous beacons in the sky, and shine across the entire electromagnetic spectrum due to rapidly accreting matter in their gravitationally inescapable cent ...
Article - News Staff - Sep 10 2014 - 8:00pm
- Messier 54 Has A Lithium Problem
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The Milky Way galaxy is orbited by more than 150 globular star clusters- balls of hundreds of thousands of old stars dating back to the formation of the galaxy. In the constellation of Sagittarius (The Archer), the French comet hunter Charles Messier foun ...
Article - News Staff - Sep 10 2014 - 6:28pm
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