Posts Tagged ‘astronomy’

New Neighbors?

Thursday, February 2nd, 2012

An new, nearby exoplanet may be the most habitable yet!

Planets, Planets, Planets

Thursday, January 12th, 2012

Reporting from day three of the American Astronomical Society meeting in Austin, Texas…

Stars are Born

Wednesday, January 11th, 2012

Reporting from day two of the American Astronomical Society meeting in Austin, Texas…

Science in 2010

Thursday, December 30th, 2010

2010 was a roller coaster year for science news—think exoplanets, synthetic-life, arsenic-eating bacteria (or not!), earthquakes, volcanoes and of course, the Gulf oil spill.

Alien’s-Eye View of the Solar System?

Thursday, September 23rd, 2010
A view of the Kuiper Belt over billions of years.

Supercomputer simulations reveal how our solar system might look to astronomers around a distant star.

Universe Update, September 2010

Saturday, September 18th, 2010

Coming at you from the desk of the Director of the Morrison Planetarium, hand-picked stories from the last month in space and astronomy news.

Friday News Round-Up

Friday, September 10th, 2010
Image by Werewombat

Pollination Decline, Citizen Science and Monarch Drug-Use: here are a few science headlines that we didn’t want you to miss this week.

Jupiter’s Missing Belt

Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010

Jupiter’s southern belt went missing over a month ago, but have no fear, it should reappear shortly!

Citizen Astronomy

Thursday, June 3rd, 2010

Want to explore the Moon or spot explosions on the Sun? Go ahead…

Gravitational Lensing

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010

How do you size-up galaxies you can’t see? Stanford scientists are using gravitational lensing to measure the distance, age and size of galaxies far, far away.

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