Ray Sanders
March 7, 2013
Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter If you’ve been following Golden Spike Company, you know that the company is planning to launch commercial Lunar exploration missions by 2020. Last month, Golden Spike announced their Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign to raise funds to help generate public interest in their [...]
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November 21, 2012
For those of you who’d like to brush up on your Astronomy knowledge, or never took Astronomy 102, CosmoQuest has a new online course offering for you! Following the success of the initial 101-level course (CQX 001: Solar System Science), the newest course offering is “CQX 003: Galaxies and Galaxy Clusters”. Just like the previous [...]
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June 15, 2012
Researchers using the Large Area Telescope onboard the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have developed a new method to detect a special class of stellar remnant, known as pulsars. A pulsar is a special type of neutron star, which spin hundreds of times per second. When the intense spin is combined with beams of energy caused [...]
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May 31, 2012
During June 5th/6th 2012, Venus will be transiting the Sun, where it will make a rare appearance as a small dot moving across the face of the Sun. Astronomers around the world are planning observations, and one team is traveling to Easter Island in an attempt to reproduce the measurements first made/proposed by Edmund Halley [...]
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March 24, 2012
Nearly ten years ago, astronomers were stunned to discover a star that had been apparently flung from its own system and travelling at over a million kilometers per hour. Over the years, a question was brought up: If stars can be ejected at a high velocity, what about planets? Avi Loeb (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) [...]
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