Found: A star that last dazzled astronomers in 14370
- From Around the Web, Space
- August 31, 2017
It’s an explosive detective story.
It’s an explosive detective story.
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft is 18 days from its mission-ending dive into the atmosphere of Saturn.
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has produced a remarkable new image of a pair of interacting galaxies known as NGC 5765.
KIC 8462852 (aka. Tabby’s Star) continues to be a source of both fascination and controversy.
SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy launch, Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic’s upcoming space tours, and NASA’s plans for the ISS make it clear there’s a lot going on with regards to space, and NASA’s Acting Administrator couldn’t help but noticed.
The Phoenicid meteor shower (named after the constellation Phoenix) was discovered by the first Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition on December 5, 1956, during their voyage in the Indian Ocean. However, it has not been observed again. This has left astronomers with a mystery: where did the Phoenicids come from and where did they go?
Are astronomers being misled by the quirky alignment of orbits that they’re finding in the distant Kuiper Belt?
Due to launch together in 2020, the two satellites making up Proba-3 will fly in precise formation to form an external coronagraph in space, one satellite eclipsing the sun to allow the second to study the otherwise invisible solar corona.
At ten times the mass of Earth, at a distance 20 times farther from the Sun than Neptune, in a far-flung region filled with icy bodies known as the Kuiper belt, supposedly orbits the mysterious Planet X.
The Great American Eclipse may be over, but that just has us asking about the next eclipse. There are some exciting destinations getting ready for their own dances with darkness.