Plethora of interacting galaxies on Hubble’s birthday - Spaceflight Now
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Astronomy textbooks typically present galaxies as staid, solitary, and majestic island worlds of glittering stars. But galaxies have a wild side. They have flirtatious close encounters that sometimes end in grand mergers and overflowing “maternity
Plan to identify watery Earth-like planets develops - Spaceflight Now
Astronomers are looking to identify Earth-like watery worlds circling distant stars from a glint of light seen through an optical space telescope and a mathematical method developed by researchers at Penn State and the University of Hawaii. “We are
STS-124: The programs - Spaceflight Now
A detailed preview of Discovery’s mission to deliver Japan’s science laboratory Kibo to the station is provided in this briefing. New research on the Antennae Galaxies using the Advanced Camera for Surveys onboard the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope
Planetary protection: X-ray super-flares aid formation of ’solar - SpaceRef
This Chandra image shows the Orion Nebula Cluster, a rich cluster of young stars observed almost continuously for 13 days. New results from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory about the Orion Nebula imply super-flares torched our young solar system
Worlds away: Searching the stars - Stillwater News Press
CLAREMORE PROGRESS (CLAREMORE, Okla.) CLAREMORE, Okla. Over time, advances in technologies enhanced our ability to see ever deeper into the mystery of space revealing galaxies never imagined by stargazers of centuries past. In that respect
Look for lunar eclipse, deep-sky objects this month - Daily Oklahoman
When an amateur astronomer gets out his or her telescope, there are several types of celestial objects he or she will be looking at. Stars and planets may first come to mind when one thinks of the objects of study in space. But our intrepid amateur
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