How do we know what planets lights years away have in their atmosphere? What about the rocks all around Curiosity?
Oct 22nd: No Touching: Determining Composition of Worlds Remotely
Tag: planet
Oct 16th: Why Are Brown Dwarf Stars So Weird?
What do brown dwarfs teach us about stars? What do they teach us about planets? What keeps them warm, and how long do they live?
Oct 6th: Observing With Webb in October 2018
Get your last look at Jupiter while Saturn is staying up shorter amounts of time, the annual Orionid Meteor Shower and this year moonless Halloween skies.
Oct 2nd: What makes all the light?
What are the many sources of light in the universe? Why is a spectrum so important?
Aug 12th: Red Dwarf Planets & Fireball II
A search for habitable planet nearby and the discovery of fireball brighter than Venus
Jul 14th: Encore: NEID: A Precision Spectometer For Exoplanet Research
NEID spectrometer is being installed and it will soon start to search for exoplanets by using the Doppler, or Radial Velocity (RV), effect.
Jul 13th: Triplet Planets Found Around Newborn Star
There have been over 3,700 exoplanets discovered so far. Some seriously clever techniques have been used to hunt down these alien worlds. Astronomers define a new technique to discover baby planet!
Jun 22nd: Astroquizzical
Dr. Jillian Scudder will be telling us about her new book, Astroquizzical in which she takes us on an enthralling cosmic journey through space and time and locates our home planet within its own “family tree.”
Jun 21st: Let’s Play Marsball!
How would football work on another planet? Are we losing opportunity?
Jun 2nd: Observing With Webb in June 2018
June is more exciting than normal, by providing us a chance to see all the naked eye planets by month’s end, lunar close encounters with all but Mercury, and an especially close one with Saturn (only 1˚!), with most planets visible for long periods of the night. So get out your scope and try to find all the planets in one night!