by rmil2k | Mar 3, 2024 | News
NGC 4565, the Needle Galaxy, was imaged with a ZWO ASI294MC Pro on a Takahashi FSQ-106N with 18 hours and 50 minutes of exposure. Credit: Molly Wakeling In 1781, French astronomer Charles Messier published a catalog of 103 objects in the heavens. He was primarily...
by rmil2k | Mar 3, 2024 | News
Scientists are discovering that more and more Solar System objects have warm oceans under icy shells. The moons Enceladus and Europa are the two most well-known, and others like Ganymede and Callisto probably have them too. Even the dwarf planet Ceres might have an...
by rmil2k | Mar 3, 2024 | News
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by rmil2k | Mar 2, 2024 | News
On Episode 100 of This Week In Space, Tariq and Rod welcome back Dr. Alan Stern of the Southwest Research Institute to share what it’s like to fly on a private spaceplane.Alan, a planetary scientist and principal investigator of NASA’s New Horizons mission...
by rmil2k | Mar 2, 2024 | News
Back to Article List Now you see me, now you don’t. During the dry season at Botswana’s Makgadikgadi salt pan, temperature inversions lead to all manner of mirages. Credit: Stephen James O’Meara Any reference will tell you the Novaya Zemlya effect is a polar mirage —...
