Our galaxy likely holds hundreds of billions of planets around other stars but when and how did we begin finding them? What was the first exoplanet detected? It turns out that the first discovery wasn’t one, but two planets in the same system.
The Solar System is more volcanically active than we thought. Today, we’ll explore volcanism on other worlds.
Students can join the hunt for TNO occultations and more about 2016 LV47
Jacinta takes us on a tour of her homeland, into the Australian bush, and chats about pathfinders, precursors and the exciting collaborations between South Africa and Australia!
We are star stuff. This phrase serves as a gentle reminder that all the complex atom found their start either in the nuclear core of a star or in the nuclear explosions of a dying star or stars. But, as with so many things, the truth is much more complicated than the meme.
The Actual Astronomy Podcast presents The Deep Sky Eye Observatory with Tim Doucette and talk about his passion for the night sky from the Deep Sky Eye Observatory which he runs as a small independent astronomy business in beautiful Nova Scotia Canada.
Join us for a discussion about Saturn’s moon Mimas that once thought to be a cold, solid body of ice & rock and now appears to harbor a vast global ocean beneath its icy crust at #365DaysOfAstro
How can a “big rip” tear the Universe apart? What does that mean for existence itself? Is it going to happen, and what are we doing to find out? I discuss these questions and more in today’s Ask a Spaceman!
You’ve probably heard that the best kind of science is peer-reviewed research published in a prestigious journal. But peer review has problems of its own. We’ll talk about that today.
New planets in nearby red dwarf stars and more about Phaethon asteroids