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Astronomy

Are Our Textbooks Wrong? Astronomers Clash Over Hubble’s Legacy

April 4, 2013

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter “No scientific discovery is named after its discoverer,” - Stigler/Merton. Edwin Hubble’s contributions to astronomy earned him the honor of having his name bestowed upon arguably the most famous space telescope (the Hubble Space Telescope, HST).  Contributions that are often attributed to [...]

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Night Sky Preview for April 2013

April 2, 2013

Here’s a quick overview from Jane Houston Jones from JPL of what you can see in the night skies during April 2013. Of special interest is that Saturn’s north pole is now tilted towards Earth, giving us the best view of the rings since 2006. Remove this ad

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How to Reconstruct the Life of a Star

April 1, 2013

It takes time to understand the life of stars. A star like our Sun takes tens of millions of years to form, and so much like archeologists who reconstruct ancient cities from shards of debris strewn over time, astronomers must reconstruct the birth process of stars indirectly, by observing stars in different stages of the [...]

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What Keeps Neil deGrasse Tyson Awake at Night?

March 29, 2013

This: And now it keeps me — and most likely you — awake at night too. But in a good way. (Right?) “Imagine another life form that’s one percent different from us, in the direction that we are one percent different from the chimps. Think about that — we are one percent different and we’re [...]

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New Stars: Blazing and Blue

March 27, 2013

A new image from ESO shows a pretty sprinkling of bright blue stars, the star cluster NGC 2547, a group of recently formed stars in the southern constellation of Vela. Even though we recently got a more precise estimate on how old the Universe is from the Planck mission (13.82 billion years), this is a [...]

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