This Week in Astronomy with Dave Eicher

This Week in Astronomy with Dave Eicher

Back to Article List Don’t worry, it won’t happen for another 5 billion years. But the Sun will one day run out of fuel and begin a long, beautiful death. Dark, active sunspot regions and bright prominences protruding from the Sun’s edges are visible in this...
Webb Blocks the Star to See a Debris Disk Around Beta Pictoris

Webb Blocks the Star to See a Debris Disk Around Beta Pictoris

You think you know someone, then you see them in a slightly different way and BAM, they surprise you. I’m not talking about other people of course, I’m talking about a fabulous star that has been studied and imaged a gazillion times. Beta Pictoris has been revealed by...
A warm welcome from Huginn to Muninn

A warm welcome from Huginn to Muninn

From the International Space Station to Earth, ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen talks about what kind of person his fellow Scandinavian and ESA project astronaut Marcus Wandt is. The Axiom-3 mission with Marcus onboard is planned to launch in mid-January 2024 to the...