Anne Minard
New Studies: Planetary Rings Harbor Records of Past Smash-Ups
[/caption] Planetary rings are more than just astronomical marvels -- they're also a sort of archive, chronicling histories of impacts…
New Technique Separates the Modest Red Giants From the … Giant Red Giants
Based on results from the first year of the Kepler mission, researchers have learned a way to distinguish two different…
New Image: Rosy Glow of Starbirth, Just in Time for Spring
[/caption] Just in time for the start of spring, the ESO's Very Large Telescope has captured this stunning new image…
Perseus Cluster Thicker Around the Middle Than Thought
[/caption] The Japanese Suzaku X-ray telescope has just taken a close look at the Perseus galaxy cluster, and revealed it's…
Famous Binary Cygnus-X1 Displays First-Ever Polarized Emissions
[/caption] Using the IBIS telescope onboard the European Space Agency’s INTEGRAL satellite, researchers have reported the first measurements of polarization…
Probing the Moho Boundary – Earth’s Own Unexplored Frontier
[/caption] The boundary where Earth’s crust gives way to the unexplored mantle was first detected in 1909, because of a…
Coolest Brown Dwarf Spotted by Earth-bound Telescopes
[/caption] Astronomers have found the coldest known star -- a brown dwarf in a double system about as hot as…
Success! MESSENGER First Spacecraft to Orbit Mercury
[/caption] After more than a dozen laps through the inner solar system, NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft appears to have moved into…
NASA: Happy St. Paddy’s Day!
[/caption] With the luck o' the Irish, NASA's Aqua satellite was fortunate to capture mostly clear views of the Emerald…