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.
NASA has given the go-ahead for SpaceX to work out a plan to adapt its…
The JWST is astronomers' best tool for probing exoplanet atmospheres. Its capable instruments can dissect…
First light for the Vera Rubin Observatory (VRO) is quickly approaching and the telescope is…
A beautiful nebula in the southern hemisphere with a binary star at it's center seems…
The history of astronomy and observatories is full of stories about astronomers going higher and…
The JWST keeps one-upping itself. In the telescope's latest act of outdoing itself, it examined…