Space

Hanny's Voorwerp: One Of The Strangest Space Objects In Space Gets The Hubble Treatment

Hanny's Voorwerp, a strange, glowing green cloud of gas that has mystified astronomers since its discovery in 2007, has gotten a better look by Hubble. The cloud of gas is lit up by the bright light of a nearby quasar and shows signs of ongoing star f ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 31 2011 - 9:47am

Strong Gravitational Lensing Gives Deep Galaxy Surveys A Boost

A new paper says that as many as 20 percent of the most distant galaxies currently detected appear brighter than they actually are, because of an effect called "strong gravitational lensing." How strong gravitational lensing works; from our view ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 12 2011 - 2:11pm

Found: 16 Pairs Of Supermassive Black Holes In Merging Galaxies

Observations done at the W. M. Keck Observatory on Hawaii's Mauna Kea have found 16 close-knit pairs of supermassive black holes in merging galaxies. These black-hole pairs, also called binaries, are about a hundred to a thousand times closer together ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 12 2011 - 5:07pm

What Does ET Look Like?

Little green men. Can they exist? Do they exist? And what do they look like? ...

Article - Oliver Knevitt - Feb 25 2011 - 10:42am

First Pluto, Now Astrology? Ophiuchus Needs To Be The 13th Sign, Says Astronomer

When I was a younger guy, I read my astrology sign 'predictions' in the newspaper.  It was in the comics section, so clearly no one took it too seriously.  But astrology had at least a foundation in science.   Unfortunately, like homeopathy, it h ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jan 14 2011 - 4:06pm

Book Your 1-Way Trip To Mars!

Wanna go to Mars?  It's a one-way trip, and over 500 people have volunteered already. The Journal of Cosomology-- yes, them again-- became the accidental sign-up agency for us ordinary folk who are willing to take that one-way trip to our neighboring ...

Article - Project Calliope - Jan 20 2011 - 2:46pm

Urgent-- help find 'lost' solar sail via radio

Back when I was prepping for the ham radio test, I didn't think my skills would be needed so soon.  The 'missing' NanoSat-D solar sail mission has appeared, but it can only be heard via radio at 437.275MHz.  So they need amateurs to listen a ...

Blog Post - Project Calliope - Jan 20 2011 - 2:48pm

Censoring Mars

Over at the Journal of Cosmology, an engaging open journal I've discussed before, there is a controversy over their book, "The Human Mission to Mars: Colonizing the Red Planet".  Namely, Eurekalert refused to accept their press release.  Say ...

Article - Alex "Sandy" Antunes - Jan 21 2011 - 4:19pm

Bright Venus Shines And...

This morning, as I walked out of home headed to work, the sky was clear and still dark. As I looked up, I immediately noticed the bright light of Venus above the houses of Venice. Have you ever watched Venus on a clear morning sky? It is a marvelous sight ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jan 26 2011 - 5:05pm

Hubble Looks Even Farther 'Back In Time'

Astronomers at the Hubble Space Telescope believe they have found the most distant object ever seen in the universe, 13.2 billion light years away, some 3% of the age of universe, making it roughly 150 million light years more distant than the previous rec ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 25 2011 - 1:52pm