Today we feature Cecilia Payne-Gaposhkin, woman astronomer & astrophysicist who proposed that stars were composed primarily of hydrogen and helium.
Sep 30th: Cecilia Payne-Gaposhkin
Richard B. Drumm Archive
Sep 24th: An Ancient, Stormy Black Hole
In the very distant past, 13.1 billion years ago, a supermassive black hole, they are called SMBHs for short, spewed a humongous amount of galactic wind.
Sep 9th: The Usain Bolt of Asteroids
On August 13, 2021, astronomers made an amazing discovery. They found an asteroid that is closer to our Sun than any other space rock. More about it at #365DaysOfAstronomy
Aug 26th: Annie Jump Cannon
Today we have the story of Annie Jump Cannon and her contributions to star classifications.
Aug 11th: Dizzy, crazy-spinning brown dwarfs
Often called ‘failed stars’, brown dwarfs are halfway between a star and a planet. And astronomers has found the fastest-spinning one they’ve ever seen
Aug 6th: Fireworks in the Universe With a Record and a Twist
Today story we have news about gamma ray burst that didn’t fit to the boxes astronomers have created for them.
Jul 29th: Dr. Jocelyn Bell Burnell
The discovery of the first known pulsar was the event that made Jocelyn Bell Burnell famous. Today famous women astronomer will introduce Dr. Jocelyn Bell Burnell.
Jul 16th: The Missing Tatooines Out There
In the real Universe, Earth-sized planets may be much more common than we think! And like Tatooine, a lot of them might be among two star systems, called binary systems. Astronomers recently found that we are missing a lot of these distant worlds.
May 26th: A hidden map of the invisible magnetic Universe
As galaxies in a cluster slam into each other and the surrounding matter, they create bow shocks, causing movement of the plasma around these clusters. With the maps provided by the high-energy jets coming out of black holes, the task can be a little easier.
Apr 29th: Natural Binocular Finds A Baby Galaxy On A Cosmic Merry-Go-Round
Astronomers used the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array or ALMA get a help from Natural Binocular to find a baby galaxy on a cosmic merry-go-round.