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 confirmed extrasolar planets orbiting around it in a planetary system.
55 Cancri is located 41 light-years away in the constellation Cancer and has nearly the same mass and age as our sun. … Read the rest of this article
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 confirmed extrasolar planets orbiting around it in a planetary system.
55 Cancri is located 41 light-years away in the constellation Cancer and has nearly the same mass and age as our sun. It … Read the rest of this article
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 pick up the radar signal from the satellite Sputnik. It has been at the centre of radio astronomy ever since and has been responsible for the discovery of quasars, gravitational lenses and groundbreaking research … Read the rest of this article
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 below to see an undular bore in action:
Above: Undular bore waves over Iowa, Oct. 3, 2007.
Movies: 5 MB mov, 5 MB gif, 13 MB gif.
Those giant waves—”undular … Read the rest of this article
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Hundreds of people have suffered headaches, nausea, and respiratory problems after an object from space – believed to be a meteorite – crashed in southern Peru.
Witnesses told of a fiery ball falling from the sky and smashing into the desolate Andean plain near the Bolivian border at … Read the rest of this article
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NASA’s Dawn spacecraft began its 1.7 billion mile journey through the inner solar system to study a pair of asteroids Thursday at 7:34 a.m. EDT.
The Delta 2 rocket, fitted with nine strap-on solid-fuel boosters, safely climbed away from the Florida coastline and launch complex … Read the rest of this article
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NASA’s Mars Odyssey spacecraft has discovered entrances to seven possible caves on the slopes of a Martian volcano. The find is fueling interest in potential underground habitats and sparking searches for caverns elsewhere on the Red Planet.
Very dark, nearly circular features … Read the rest of this article
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 universe.
The Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, will expand our understanding of the origins and destinies of stars and galaxies. NASA had stopped the study effort on the NuSTAR mission in 2006 due … Read the rest of this article
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NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) is examining several features on Mars that address the role of water at different times in Martian history.
Features examined with the orbiter’s advanced instruments include material … Read the rest of this article
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, galaxies, and the cosmos as a whole are covered, providing insights into amazing objects like quasars, exploding stars, neutron stars, and black holes.
Recent newsworthy events such as the detection of planets around other … Read the rest of this article
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