Fifth Planet Discovered Circling 55 Cancri
Astronomers have announced the discovery of a fifth planet circling 55 Cancri, a star beyond our solar system. The star now holds the record for number of…
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Astronomers Discover Fifth Planet Circling 55 Cancri
Astronomers have announced the discovery of a fifth planet circling 55 Cancri, a star beyond our solar system. The star now holds the record for number…
Read the article →Sky at Night: October 2007 – Jodrell Bank
October 2007 – Jodrell Bank: Sir Patrick Moore celebrates the 50th birthday of the radio telescope at Jodrell Bank in Cheshire, created just in time to…
Read the article →Giant Atmospheric Waves Over Iowa
Pop quiz: define undular bore. If your answer included words such as dull or tiresome, i.e., boring, think again. Or better yet, click on the image…
Read the article →The Peru Meteorite
The crater left by the object is 65ft wide and 20ft deep Hundreds of people have suffered headaches, nausea, and respiratory problems after an object from…
Read the article →Dawn Spacecraft Launched
A spectacular launch of the Dawn spacecraft into a beautiful Florida sky. Photo credit: NASA NASA’s Dawn spacecraft began its 1.7 billion mile journey through the…
Read the article →NASA Orbiter Finds Possible Cave Skylights on Mars
NASA’s Mars Odyssey spacecraft has discovered entrances to seven possible caves on the slopes of a Martian volcano. NASA’s Mars Odyssey spacecraft has discovered entrances to…
Read the article →NASA Restarts Telescope Mission to Detect Black Holes
NASA has made a decision to restart an astronomy mission that will have greater capability than any existing instrument for detecting black holes in the local…
Read the article →Insights About Mars’ Water and Climate
False-color image of gully channels in a crater in the southern highlands of Mars, taken by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment camera on the Mars…
Read the article →Introduction to General Astronomy
This course is designed to provide, for non-science majors, a description of the fantastic Universe in which we live. The structure and evolution of planets, stars,…
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