All right, here’s what’s happening around the astrosphere.
Today’s photo is of the International Space Station and the space shuttle Atlantis, taken by Roger Hintzsche. Roger did this as a 16-second exposure on his camera when the pair passed above his part of the sky. Nice shot Roger.
Do black holes really exist? Bad Astronomy has an article on research that claims everything might work differently than astronomers think.
There’s a cool interview over on Scientific American with Alan Weisman about what would happen if everyone on Earth disappeared.
Centauri Dreams looks at Charles Stross’ approach to spaceflight.
The gravitational wave background was first detected in 2016. It was announced following the release…
The giant outer planets haven’t always been in their current position. Uranus and Neptune for…
The hunt for extrasolar planets has revealed some truly interesting candidates, not the least of…
How did complex life emerge and evolve on the Earth and what does this mean…
In a world that seems to be switching focus from the Hubble Space Telescope to…
The world was much different in 1990 when NASA astronauts removed the Hubble Space Telescope…