Space

Next week is the winter 215th AAS meeting, this time in D.C.. I'll be there presenting there Thursday on Project Calliope, the ScientificBlogging music satellite I'm building in my basement for a 2010/2011 launch, and tweeting about the meeting ...

Blog Post - Alex "Sandy" Antunes - Jan 1 2010 - 6:21pm

Seen the Milky Way lately?

In the age of the Hubble Space Telescope, and ever larger earthbound scopes being build, many people are of the impression that one needs costly equipment to enjoy the night skies. Nothing is further from the truth. Reality, however, is that occasions at w ...

Blog Post - Johannes Koelman - Jan 2 2010 - 12:37am

Satellite Images Reveal Evidence Of Ancient Lakes On Mars

New evidence uncovered by a team from Imperial College London and the University College London (UCL) suggests that during the Hesperian Epoch, approximately 3 billion years ago, Mars sustained lakes of melted ice, each around 20 km wide, along parts of it ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 4 2010 - 9:37pm

Astronomers Uncover 13 Billion-Year-Old Ultra-Blue Galaxies

Using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have broken the distance limit for galaxies by uncovering a primordial population of never-before-seen ultra-blue galaxies. At 13 billion years old, they formed approximately 600 to 800 million years af ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 8 2010 - 6:59pm

Best New Astronomy Books?

What are the best new astronomy books? I just got asked this question, and thought I'd hit up all you Bloggies for your opinions. I'll also make sure to check with publishers at the ongoing 215th AAS Meeting to get their recommendations, and po ...

Article - Alex "Sandy" Antunes - Jan 5 2010 - 3:34pm

Millisecond Pulsars Could Make 'Galactic GPS' Possible

By studying unknown high-energy sources detected by NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, radio astronomers have uncovered 17 millisecond pulsars in our galaxy. The discovery was made in less than three months, and such a jump in the pace of locat ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 5 2010 - 5:04pm

Only 10 Percent Of Solar Systems Are Like Ours

In their quest to find solar systems analogous to ours own, astronomers have determined how common our solar system is--not very. In a study presented today at the American Astronomical Society Meeting in Washington, DC, Ohio State researchers explained th ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 5 2010 - 5:29pm

Hubble's Panchromatic Capabilities Reveal Unprecedented View Of The Universe

Shown in an extremely broad range of color and showcasing more than twelve billion years of cosmic history, Hubble's recent image is a full-glory cosmic renaissance of the history of the Universe. This image provides a record of the Universe's mo ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 8 2010 - 6:59pm

Earth-Like CoRoT-7 B Likely A Volcanic Wasteland

Despite astronomers hopes, the rocky planet CoRoT-7 b that was discovered circling a star some 480 light years from Earth last October is likely a forbidding place that doesn't harbor life. Upon its discovery, experts said that was because the planet ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 6 2010 - 12:11pm

Astrophysicists Explain How The Earth Survived Birth

Researchers at the American Museum of Natural History and the University of Cambridge have developed models they say explain how earth survived its birth. Presenting their findings at the 2010 meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Washington, D. ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 7 2010 - 2:09pm