Space

Discovery- 32 New Exoplanets Announced By HARPS

A new groups of exoplanets announced today comprises no less than 32 new discoveries. Including these new results, data from HARPS have led to the discovery of more than 75 exoplanets in 30 different planetary systems. In 1999, ESO launched a call for opp ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 19 2009 - 10:36am

Hit By A Meteorite?

A Canadian SUV was just hit by a meteorite. Some people have all the luck For most of recorded history, no one had ever been hit by a meteorite. This was a useful factoid for us scientists when speaking to the public. It reaffirmed both probability-- how l ...

Article - Alex "Sandy" Antunes - Oct 20 2009 - 7:50pm

JKCS041- 10.2 Billion Light Years Away And A New Record

The most distant galaxy cluster yet, known as JKCS041, has been discovered by combining data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and optical and infrared telescopes at the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope (UKIRT), the Canada-France-Hawaii telescope ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 22 2009 - 10:51am

NASA Pancakes

In the grand tradition of plotting things to make them interesting, we have (from the excellent webtoon Indexed), Pancakes from space: ...

Blog Post - Alex "Sandy" Antunes - Oct 23 2009 - 9:30am

Guest Post: Marco Cardin, "Imaging Venus In Violet Light"

I have known Marco Cardin for a couple of years because besides being an accomplished amateur astro-imager he is also an avid visual observer. His encyclopedic knowledge of the night sky wonders is a great help on the field during the monthly night-long o ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Nov 3 2009 - 3:15am

Nothing Happened Today In Space Science

Nothing happened Tuesday in space science, is the conclusion reached by this researcher. As a hard scientist here at ScientificBlogging, I find interesting topics to write about twice weekly. However, today, there was nothing. Nothing at all happened in sc ...

Article - Alex "Sandy" Antunes - Oct 27 2009 - 1:31pm

A Star's Age & Family Tree

A new star is known: CoRoT-7. It is one of the 100,000 stars that were recorded by the COROT satellite in 1,000 days since the December 27, 2006 launch date. Congratulations!   Date: 16 Sep 2009 Depicts: Star field around CoRoT 7 Copyright: ESO/Digitized ...

Blog Post - Hatice Cullingford - Oct 27 2009 - 5:34pm

A Star's Age & Family Tree

A new star is known: CoRoT-7. It is one of the 100,000 stars that were recorded by the COROT satellite in 1,000 days since the December 27, 2006 launch date. Congratulations!   Date: 16 Sep 2009 Depicts: Star field around CoRoT 7 Copyright: ESO/Digitized ...

Blog Post - Hatice Cullingford - Oct 27 2009 - 5:34pm

Cosmic Voyage & Powers of 10

Way back when, there was an excellent film loop called "Powers of 10".  Created by Charles and Ray Eames, it can now be found at the conveniently-named powersof10.com website.  The video is elegant, starting with a couple having a picnic and then ...

Blog Post - Alex "Sandy" Antunes - Oct 30 2009 - 12:01pm

Very Large Array, GRB 090423 And A Peek Into The Early Universe

An explosion detected on April 23 by NASA's Swift satellite was more than 13 billion light-years from Earth, representing an event that occurred 630 million years after the Big Bang, when the Universe was only four percent of its current age of 13.7 b ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 29 2009 - 3:25pm