Hubble Space Telescope Finds Rare ‘Blue Straggler’ Stars in Hub of the Milky Way
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has found a rare class of oddball stars called blue stragglers in the hub of our Milky Way, the first detected within…
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Fireball Over Southeastern USA
Bright fireballs appear somewhere on Earth every day. Â Most are caused by rocky asteroids. On Friday, May 20th, however, a less common object struck. Â Sky…
Read the article →NASA Puts STS-134 Space Shuttle Mission Audio and Video Online
NASA has broadcast-quality audio and video clips from the ongoing STS-134 space shuttle and other missions available online through the Internet Archive website. The agency’s Johnson…
Read the article →Astronomy Podcasts Page Working Again
The Astronomy Podcasts page stopped working a while back but I was only recently alerted to it. It’s up and running again now. Some of the…
Read the article →Radio Telescopes Capture the Best-Ever Snapshot of Black Hole Jets
Centaurus A is a giant elliptical active galaxy 12 million light-years away. At its heart lies a black hole with a mass of 55 million…
Read the article →Violent Storm on Saturn
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft and a European Southern Observatory ground-based telescope tracked the growth of a giant early-spring storm in Saturn’s northern hemisphere that is so powerful…
Read the article →Dark Energy Found to Be Repulsive in Nature by NASA Galaxy Explorer
A five-year survey of 200,000 galaxies, stretching back seven billion years in cosmic time, has led to one of the best independent confirmations that dark energy…
Read the article →Rogue Planets May Be More Common Than Stars
Astronomers have discovered a new class of Jupiter-sized planets floating alone in the dark of space, away from the light of a star. The team believes…
Read the article →AAVSO Alert Notice 440: PEP Observing Campaign on P Cygni
AAVSO Alert Notice 440 PEP Observing Campaign on P Cygni May 17, 2011 Ernst Pollmann, Chairman of the VdS-Spectroscopy-Group in Germany and an ative spectroscopist, has…
Read the article →Last Shuttle With ESA Astronaut Lifts Off to Space Station to Hunt for Dark Matter
Endeavour on the launch pad Space Shuttle Endeavour lifted off today on her last mission to the International Space Station. Following launch of the STS-134 mission…
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