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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
“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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
I subscribe to several StackExchange lists (stackexchange.com) and receive regular emails notifying me of current questions posted on the forum. I highly recommend the site, particularly for the computer programming […]
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. […]
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 […]