by rmil2k | Jan 2, 2024 | News
The Quadrantid meteor shower will peak this week and could bring up to 120 shooting stars per hour to the night sky.It has the potential to be the strongest meteor shower of 2024, according to the American Meteor Society, but with such a short peak — just six hours —...
by rmil2k | Jan 2, 2024 | News
Credit: Douglas J. Struble If your observing site is dark and you have access to at least a 14-inch telescope, do yourself a favor and target the Hercules Galaxy Cluster. Its main official designation is Abell 2151, a member of a catalog of 2,712 rich northern...
by rmil2k | Jan 1, 2024 | News
A recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters investigates the potential existence of Mars-sized free-floating planets (FFPs)—also known as rogue planets, starless planets, and wandering planets—that could have been captured by our Sun’s gravity long...
by rmil2k | Jan 1, 2024 | News
One of the Artemis 2 astronauts will mark his first trip in space with a trip to the moon.Canadian Space Agency mission specialist Jeremy Hansen recently shared in a video on X, formerly Twitter, how he and the rest of the Artemis 2 crew plan to get to the moon in...
by rmil2k | Jan 1, 2024 | News
Pluto imaged with the New Horizons spacecraft during its historic 2015 flyby. Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SWRI/Alex Parker In 1930 a young astronomer from Kansas, employed as an observer at Lowell Observatory in Arizona, discovered Pluto. It was the first planet in the solar...
