by rmil2k | Dec 30, 2023 | News
Quadrantid meteors rain down during the 2023 shower. This year, the sky is off to an early start as the Quadrantids peak January 4. Credit: Héctor Castejón (Flickr) Friday, December 29The next few weeks mark our last good views of Saturn as it begins to set earlier in...
by rmil2k | Dec 30, 2023 | News
Life, as we all know, is based on chemistry. Prebiotic chemical building blocks existed on our planet for a long time before life arose. Astrobiology and cosmochemistry focus on the formation of those building blocks. They also look at the role each played in creating...
by rmil2k | Dec 30, 2023 | News
This Hubble Picture of the Week features a richness of spiral galaxies: the large, prominent spiral galaxy on the right side of the image is NGC 1356; the two apparently smaller spiral galaxies flanking it are LEDA 467699 (above it) and LEDA 95415 (very close at its...
by rmil2k | Dec 30, 2023 | News
NASA’s asteroid sampling spacecraft OSRIS-APEX will have an exciting new mission in 2029, when it will watch an exciting asteroid encounter like no other in recorded human history.The craft, formerly known as OSIRIS-REx, will bear witness as the asteroid...
by rmil2k | Dec 29, 2023 | News
The Great American Eclipse drew millions to totality in 2017. Don’t miss your chance to experience it again in 2024. Jim Schaff Millions of people throughout the U.S. experienced the much-anticipated total solar eclipse of Aug. 21, 2017, the first to cross the country...
