Today we have the story of Annie Jump Cannon and her contributions to star classifications.
Aug 26th: Annie Jump Cannon
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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.
Mar 25th: Henrietta Swan Leavitt
She was born in Lancaster, Massachusetts in 1868, to a Congregational Church minister and his wife. She first attended Oberlin College and then transferred to The Society for the Collegiate Instruction of Women at Harvard University.
Jan 27th: Where Are We?
Just like the familiar maps we use to navigate our own neighborhoods and cities, astronomers develop maps of the galaxy too! Using the power of several telescopes across Japan, astronomers have teased out some new insights as to the precise location of the Earth within our Milky Way Galaxy.
Aug 27th: When Stars Wobble
New observations from the National Science Foundation’s NOIRLab and other telescopes have found a planet that doesn’t quite match how astronomers expected planets to form.