What are the many sources of light in the universe? Why is a spectrum so important?
Oct 2nd: What makes all the light?
Tag: planet
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!
May 3rd: Uranus Jokes Never Get Old
Gaia knows best and hey! What’s that smell on Uranus?
Apr 7th: Observing With Webb in April 2018
April brings us plenty of Jupiter time, a close encounter between Mars and Saturn, and a potentially decent Lyrid meteor shower. And MAYBE some better weather.
Mar 3rd: Observing With Webb in March 2018
March will brought you a few planet conjunction to watch.