Happy New Year! Today we have @CheapAstro investigates our expanding universe, as well as some dead planets.
Dec 21st: The Planets
Today we have Cheap Astronomy tries colonising the Solar System. If we did what would we do with the different planets?
Dec 20th: Searching for Dark Energy in Black Holes
Dec 7th: Last Minute Astronomer December 2024
Get out under the stars in December of 2024 to see ALL THE PLANETS! Especially on Christmas night. Plus a bunch of close encounters between the Moon and those planets, and the annual Geminid meteor shower.
Nov 8th: Aquatic Planets Like Earth Could Abound in Milky Way
The formation of rocky worlds from dust particles containing ice & carbon, increasing the possibility of Milky Way filled with aquatic planets
Nov 5th: Is it Time to Redefine the Planet?
How did Pluto get demoted? What makes a planet a planet anyway? Why do we now have so many different kinds of planets, and should we make things simpler?
Nov 2nd: Last Minute Astronomer November 2024
In November Saturn and Jupiter are the steady highlights above, Venus shines brilliantly before dawn, and rocks fall from the sky.
Oct 8th: The Roman Space Telescope will Revolutionize our Understanding of Exoplanets?
The next big milestone for exoplanets is a telescope that can see beyond beyond the frontiers of our knowledge: The Roman Space Telescope
Sep 12th: Planets
Things that orbit the Sun and clear their orbits. So what happens when worlds collide? Why is Mars’ sky red?