Friday’s full moon was the biggest and brightest full moon of the year, offering those with clear skies an opportunity to identify easy-to-see features on the moon.
Astronomy – Earth – Moon – Solar System – Planets
Living on a planet comes with certain advantages. Gravity, for instance. The only reason hot air rises on Earth is that colder, denser air will always fall to displace it upwards. On the International Space Station everyone has to sleep next to a fa…
Scientists have observed a peculiar type of star death in deep space that may help explain the most powerful explosions in the universe.
Universe – Anomalies and Alternative Science – Astronomy Alternative – Cosmology – Physics
Notes[1] Stellar-mass black holes are the extremely dense, final remnants of the collapse of very massive stars. These black holes have masses up to around twenty times the mass of the Sun, as opposed to supermassive black holes, found in the center of…
Rapid technological leaps forward in the last 10 years mean mankind is closer than ever before to knowing whether extra-terrestrial life exists in our galaxy, one of Britain’s leading scientists said on Tuesday.
Extraterrestrial life – Milky Way – Technology – Earth – Astronomy
Robin McKie is disappointed by a collection of essays published to mark 350 years of the Royal SocietyOn a damp weeknight in late November in 1660, a dozen men gathered in rooms at Gresham College in London to listen to a lecture, on astronomy, by a 28-year-old whizz kid called Christopher Wren. The talk clearly [...]
Whatever hectic pressures may be at play in your life, you can always look forward to one quiet moment each week to contemplate the night sky in peace. I refer, of course, to when you have to take out the garbage – or as the Americans would have i…
A different astronomy and space sciencerelated image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.
If you head outside around 8 p.m. this week and face due east, you’ll see a brilliant, fiery-colored, non-twinkling “star” that immediately will attract your attention. It’s not a star, however, but the planet Mars.
Mars – Earth – Space – Solar System – Astronomy
Earthlings casting a wary eye for rogue asteroids may be comforted to learn that our planet is not a sitting duck.