Nicholos Wethington
Rosetta Uncovers a Thick, Dusty Blanket on Lutetia
[/caption] If you think that asteroids are boring, unchanging rocks floating in space waiting only to crop up in bad…
5 Reasons to Attend Your Nearest Star Party
[/caption] If you've been wanting to get out to view the skies at night from your back yard - or…
NASA to Send a Probe Into the Sun
[/caption] NASA recently announced its choices for the experiments to fly aboard the Solar Probe Plus spacecraft, which is slated…
The Sun’s Conveyor Belt May Lengthen Solar Cycles
[/caption] The Sun seems to finally be waking up in earnest from the long slumber of the past cycle. Solar…
Telescope’s Laser Pointer Clarifies Blurry Skies
[/caption] While it's handy for us humans (and all of the other life on our planet for that matter), the…
Most Massive Star Discovered: Over 300 Suns at Birth!
[/caption] Often, writing about astronomy tends to mirror the job of those writing for the Guinness Book of World Records…
First Quasar Gravitational Lens Discovered (w/video)
[/caption] Gravitation lensing - a phenomenon that falls out of Einstein's theory of general relativity - has been observed numerous…
Andromeda’s Unstable Black Hole
[/caption] The Andromeda galaxy, the closest spiral galaxy to our own Milky Way, has a supermassive blackhole at the center…
Black Hole in M87 Wanders using Jetpack
[/caption] The elliptical galaxy M87 is known for a jet of radiation that is streaming from the supermassive black hole…
Newly-Discovered Stellar Nurseries in the Milky Way
[/caption] Our Milky Way churns out about seven new stars per year on average. More massive stars are formed in…