6 Sky Events This Week: Cosmic Scorpion, Planetary Triangle
Sky-watchers this week get a chance to go eye to eye with a cosmic scorpion and witness a magnificent meeting of three neighboring worlds in the evening skies.
Posted by Breaking Orbit
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Monday
May 20 2013
15:53 UTC
May 20 2013
15:53 UTC
Friday
May 17 2013
15:12 UTC
May 17 2013
15:12 UTC
Seeing the Red of La Superba,' a Magnificent Springtime Carbon Star
The Universe can be a very gray place. But this week, we'll look at a fine example of a class of objects that defies this trend.(...)Read the rest of Seeing the Red of ‘La Superba,' a Magnificent Springtime Carbon Star (887 words) Â David Dickinson for Universe Today, 2013. | Permalink | One comment |
Posted by Universe Today
Thursday
May 16 2013
23:41 UTC
May 16 2013
23:41 UTC
Using General Relativity to Measure Properties of Binary Pulsars
Shapiro time delays are one of the four tests of general relativity possible in the solar system. Astronomers can use these timing delays to measure properties of binary pulsar systems.
Posted by astrobites
Wednesday
May 15 2013
21:01 UTC
May 15 2013
21:01 UTC
Photo: Orion’s Hidden Dusty Ribbon Revealed
The Orion nebula Âis one of the most favorite spots for stargazers to explore in the heavens, but this week astronomers are releasing a stunning new look to this giant stellar nursery 1300 light years from Earth. A fiery cosmic ribbon glows with orange colors as grains of cold interstellar dust light up like…
Posted by Breaking Orbit
Monday
May 13 2013
17:45 UTC
May 13 2013
17:45 UTC
5 Sky Events This Week: Three-Planet Huddle, Lunar Wall
The lunar wall comes into view, three planets huddle, and the moon joins the Leo constellation in this week's best sky events.
Posted by Breaking Orbit
Friday
May 10 2013
14:28 UTC
May 10 2013
14:28 UTC
Planet Debris Pollute Dead Stars
A pair of dead stars sitting in a star cluster about 150 light years from Earth appear to have their atmospheres polluted with debris from asteroids . Astronomers say this suggests that the basic ingredients for making Earth-like planets could be quite Âcommon in stellar nurseries across the cosmos. “We have identified chemical evidence…
Posted by Breaking Orbit
Thursday
May 09 2013
07:56 UTC
May 09 2013
07:56 UTC
The Truth About Zeta Reticuli
... system of Sun-like stars only 39. 5 light years away in the little constellation of Reticulum is strangely well-known. Why is it so famous? This system...
Posted by Astronotes
Tuesday
May 07 2013
01:53 UTC
May 07 2013
01:53 UTC
Time-Lapse: Earth
If you couldn't tell, we love time-lapse videos… whether they're made of photos looking up at the sky from Earth or looking down at Earth from the sky! This latest assembly by photographer Bruce W. Berry takes us on a tour around the planet from orbit, created from images taken by astronauts aboard the International
Posted by Universe Today
Monday
May 06 2013
17:32 UTC
May 06 2013
17:32 UTC
5 Sky Events This Week: Return of Venus, Solar Eclipse
Straggler meteors, a solar eclipse, and the return of Venus are among the best sky events to watch this week.
Posted by Breaking Orbit
Friday
May 03 2013
17:30 UTC
May 03 2013
17:30 UTC
The Rosy Remains of a Star's Final Days
... But eventually even stars come to the
Posted by Universe Today
Friday
May 03 2013
17:12 UTC
May 03 2013
17:12 UTC
Retired Space Observatory’s Watery Legacy
After nearly four years of glorious service to science, the European Space Agency's Herschel Space Observatory mission has come to the end this week. Running out of helium coolant needed to chill its instruments down to near absolute zero means that it has closed its far-infrared eyes to the Universe for good. ÂAfter a…
Posted by Breaking Orbit
Thursday
May 02 2013
11:04 UTC
May 02 2013
11:04 UTC
May 2013 Night Sky Wonders
If you find yourself in the great outdoors any evening during May and it's a cloudless night, turning your eyes towards the heavens could be an unusually interesting way for...
Posted by Astronotes
Friday
Apr 26 2013
23:14 UTC
Apr 26 2013
23:14 UTC
The White House Releases a Report on Space Weather
We live on a planet dominated by weather. But not just the kind that comes in the form of wind, rain, and snow — we are also under the influence of space weather, generated by the incredible power of our home star a “mere” 93 million miles away. As we orbit the Sun our planet
Posted by Universe Today