Apollo Moon Landing Sites, Moon Phases In Nov. 2015 Skywatching | Video
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Postdoctoral fellow Daniel Angerhausen poses with SOFIA the night he observed an exoplanet with the plane-mounted instrument.Credit: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute For the first time ever, astronomers have used instruments onboard the world’s largest airborne observatory to examine a massive planet beyond Earth’s solar system. Studies of exoplanets normally have been confined to either outer space […]
Dust Gaps Around Young Stars Not Exoplanet 'Proof'
Dusty disks, like the one shown here circling the star, are the breeding grounds of planets. When visible or near-infrared observations show a gap in a disk like this, it is often interpreted as evidence for an unseen planet. However, new research shows that a gap could be a sort of cosmic illusion and not […]
Is New Star Wars Movie (or Anything Else) So New?
A recent twitter feud pitting William Shatner against Star Wars’ fans over the upcoming J.J. Abrams film “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” raises questions about the originality of popular culture. As Hollywood continues to mine the past for new on-screen material, some ask if anything we watch is really new anymore? The former “Star Trek” […]
Halloween Asteroid Not So Spooky in New Photos
These eight individual radar images of asteroid 2015 TB145 were captured on Oct. 31, 2015 using NASA’s DSS-14 antenna in Goldstone, California and the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia.Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/GSSR/NRAO/AUI/NSF New photos show the less spooky side of the big asteroid that flew past Earth on Halloween. The 2,000-foot-wide (600 meters) asteroid 2015 TB145 […]
Makers of 'Star Wars' BB-8 Droid Toy Promise Hidden Tricks
Sphero’s version of the BB-8 droid featured in “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” is smaller than its movie-trailer analogue, but no less of a personality.Credit: Sphero/Lucasfilm Ltd. NEW YORK — The new BB-8 droid, which will appear in “Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens” in December, already has a high-tech mini-me or two — […]
Hey, Einstein: It Really Is a Quantum World (Google Hangout)
Alan Brown, writer and blogger for The Kavli Foundation, contributed this article to Space.com’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights . What kind of universe do we live in? Dutch physicist Ronald Hanson has given us the best answer to that question yet — and Albert Einstein wouldn’t like it. The question revolves around a phenomenon called […]
Do Science and Art Share a Source? – Café Panel Chat
Astro-math expert Ed Belbruno and fellow artists Bob Vanderbei and Rob Mars discuss the roots of the “aha moment” with Space.com’s Josh Chamot. Filmed before a live audience at Hamilton’s Luncheonette in NYC’s West Village. See Ed Belbruno’s art here: http://store.space.com/ed-belbruno-ar… Business Management: Aggie Sung, BelbrunoArt Public Outreach: Michelle Miller, Brown University Art Handling: MacLean […]
Moon Over Mars: Why US Needs a Lunar Mission First (Op-Ed)
Artist’s concept of a lunar base and associated moon activities, depicting a still-sketchy view of how best to utilize the moon as a destination of human permanence.Credit: NASA/Dennis Davidson Leroy Chiao is a former NASA astronaut and ISS commander. He served as a member of the 2009 Review of U.S. Human Spaceflight Plans Committee, and […]
Gorgeous Glow! Green Aurora Shines Over Glimmering Lake
A golden-green Aurora shines over Moraine Lake in this skywatcher image. Astrophotographer Deepanshu Arora took this image from Banff National Park in Alberta, Canada. The image also shows the glittering Milky Way above the mountains. “When I was up at Moraine Lake, shooting pictures of our galaxy, I noticed that the snow on the Ten […]
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Electric Blue Isles Glow Under Dazzling Milky Way (Photo)
The electric blue strip around the small isles in this image shows bioluminescence under the dazzling Milky Way in Maine. Astrophotographer Adam Woodworth took this image at the cliffs of Acadia National Park in Maine on August 17th, 2015.Credit: Adam Woodworth | Adam Woodworth Photography The electric blue light around the edges of the small […]
Newfound Moon Craters Point to Asteroid Puzzle
Many lunar impact basins are visible in this moon photo, which was snapped in May 2013 by astrophotographer Anthony Lopez in the Mexican city of Juarez, near the Texas border.Credit: Anthony Lopez Newfound lunar craters suggest that asteroids that smashed into the moon long ago were very different from the ones that now occupy the […]