Astrophotography
Discovery Alert: The Planet that Shouldn’t Be There
3 min read Discovery Alert: The Planet that Shouldn’t Be There Artist’s rendering of planet 8 Ursae Minoris b – ...
Lasers cut through star trails in beautiful photo from ESO
The European Southern Observatory (ESO) shared a beautiful new image of stars trailing across the night sky. It was taken ...
SCaN STEM Navigation Activities – NASA
Navigate Space: Space Communications and Navigation Workbook Grades 8 – 12 NASA navigates throughout the solar system and beyond, revealing ...
Astronaut Jan Davis recounts career, father’s POW experience in new book
Davis: I was fortunate enough to be hired (at NASA) as an engineer in 1979, before the space shuttle flew ...
Giant Magellan Telescope project casts 7th and final mirror (photo)
Last week, in a spinning tank beneath the University of Arizona’s football stadium, an oven kicked to life. The oven, ...
How our Milky Way galaxy looks in gravitational waves (video)
A simulated map of the Milky Way as it would appear in gravitational waves has given a powerful impression of ...
After NASA’s epic OSIRIS-REx capsule landing success, spacecraft heads to asteroid Apophis on new mission
The NASA probe that delivered precious samples of the space rock Bennu to Earth is now on an extended voyage ...
Mathematicians find 12,000 new solutions to ‘unsolvable’ 3-body problem
The three-body problem is a notoriously tricky puzzle in physics and mathematics, and an example of just how complex the ...
OSIRIS-REx bringing asteroid sample to Earth Sept. 24. Watch it live
NASA’s first-ever pristine asteroid sample will come down to Earth on Sunday morning (Sept. 24), and you can watch the ...
Why You Should Be on AstroBin
AstroBin is an incredible resource for astrophotographers, and I’m still convinced there are a few people who have still not ...
