September 27 2011 was the 1,000th day since the 365 Days of Astronomy podcast was instituted on 1 January 2009, the International Year of Astronomy – and due to a puzzling publishing hiccup the 1,000th episode played on September 28 2011.
This unique citizen scientist project will hopefully stumble on through to the end of 2011, but if anyone wants to see it have a life after that your support and contributions are needed today – and every day after that.
When massive stars reach the end of their life cycle, they undergo gravitational collapse and…
Planets are born in swirling disks of gas and dust around young stars. Astronomers are…
Sometimes, things across the vast Universe line up just right for us. The Einstein Ring…
Our Sun is a giant plasma windbag spewing a constant stream of charged particles called…
Humanity will eventually need somewhere to live on the Moon. While aesthetics might not be…
How can a geologic map of a lunar impact crater created billions of years ago…