Imagine standing on the planet Tatooine from Star Wars and seeing two suns in the sky. Planets and stars also have their own geometry, but sometimes the answer doesn’t add up. Check today’s #spacescoop by @unawe with @RichardDrumm
What makes the Earth’s atmosphere so special? What makes the atmospheres of other planets so special? Why are atmospheres so special anyway? I discuss these questions and more in today’s Ask a Spaceman!
Why do we think the solar system might have another planet? Why do we think it doesn’t? How do test for something that’s too far away to see? I discuss these questions and more in today’s Ask a Spaceman!
Three planets still hanging out in the early mornings, an early month unusual conjunction, and a meteor shower make this time of socially distancing ourselves a great time to get outside at night!
In this science explainy bit episode, we answer the pressing question of why planets always seem to orbit in the same plane. Why are their motions aligned like that?
NASA’s Deep Space Network is celebrating its 50th birthday, while Hubble Space Telescope was used to study 3 planets orbiting stars similar to our Sun. #365DaysOfAstro
News round up! Looks like we can have planet around black hole, comet Borisov getting close and discussion with Dylan O’Donnell. #365DaysOfAstro
Why are planets always round? Lets find the answer with @uastronomer at #365DaysOfAstro
We are looking for more observatories and amateur astronomers who might want to join the project. The Habitable Exoplanet Hunting Project is a worldwide network of amateur astronomers searching for new potentially habitable exoplanets.
In an exciting discovery, water vapor has been found in the atmosphere of a distant exoplanet planet known as K2-18b, which is 110 light years from Earth in the constellation Leo.