TESS – NASA mission to find earth-sized planets in ‘nearby’ space
phys.org is one of my favorite sites on the web, and I highly recommend it for those who wish to keep up with the increasingly fast-paced advance of science. They […]
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The Universe is a Strange Place, Indeed
Strange materials cropping up in condensed matter laboratories “Condensed matter physicists study the behaviour of electrons in many materials — semiconductors, metals, and exotic materials like superconductors.” Normally, these physicists […]
Is Voyager 1 Inside an Interstellar Flux Transfer Event?
Celebrations have already been held concerning the idea that the Voyager 1 spacecraft is the first man-made object known to have left the local environment of our Sun and entered […]
Enduring Quests, Daring VIsions
NASA has recently released its ‘roadmap for astrophysics’. You can download a full .PDF version of it from NASA or from ArXiv.org. I highly recommend it! It’s quite an exciting […]
Mass Determined for 60 Exoplanets
“An astronomer reports having measured the masses of approximately 60 exoplanets larger than Earth and smaller than Neptune. The measurements greatly expand scientists’ knowledge of sub-Neptune exoplanets because once the […]
On the Agelessness of Photons
I have no delusions that photons can actually experience being ‘old’ photons or new ones! It is, of course, a fact that photons do not experience aging, and that they […]
First gamma-ray study of a gravitational lens
An international team of astronomers, using NASA’s Fermi observatory, has made the first-ever gamma-ray measurements of a gravitational lens, a kind of natural telescope formed when a rare cosmic alignment […]
How does gravitational lensing account for Einstein’s Cross?
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Free Printable 2014 Wall Calendar
It’s not too late to download a .pdf file of a beautiful 2014 astronomy wall calendar. You can use it electronically, or print it out for hanging on your wall. […]
Hubble Traces Subtle Signals of Water on Hazy Worlds
Dec. 3, 2013 Using the powerful eye of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, two teams of scientists have found faint signatures of water in the atmospheres of five distant planets. The […]