What are blue straggler stars? How were they first discovered? What do they tell us about star clusters and the evolution of stars? I discuss these questions and more in today’s Ask a Spaceman!
Feb 7th: What are the Blue Stragglers?
Tag: stars
Nov 28th: Runaway! Runaway! Escaping Stars, Planets & Small Bodies
Moons orbit planets, planets orbit stars, stars orbit within galaxies. It’s orbits all the way down. But occasionally objects can receive a powerful kick that sends them on a journey, never to return.
Aug 11th: Why Are Stars Different Colors?
Today Awesome Astronomy will taking a look at the colour of stars and why stars appear the colours they do. Also how the mass of a star is related to its temperature, what happens to expanding dying stars and why we don’t see any green or purple stars.
May 16th: Is the Sun… Normal?
We’ve always assumed that we lived in a perfectly normal star system with a normal star and normal planets. It’s all… normal. But with our modern understanding of billions of stars, just how normal is our Sun, anyway?
Feb 10th: The Birth of the Brightest Morning Star and the Evening Sparkle Stars
Today’s podcast we have a folklore from Mongolia about the birth of the brightest morning star and the evening sparkle stars.
Feb 2nd: Awesome Astronomy February 2022 News Round Up
What to observe in February? Listen to @awesomeastropod #skyguide and news round up today at #365DaysOfAstro. The team will cover Venus sample return mission, big far away star with very big planet, another ocean moon in Saturn and many more.
Jan 20th: Astronomical Asterisms
Today, @ActualAstronomy talk about the patterns in the sky both large and small as we share the guideposts to learning the night sky as well as some smaller asterisms you can see through binoculars and telescopes
Jan 16th: Kissing Frogs & Know A Star
Just like Brothers Grimm’s kissing the frog fairy tale, this software by Frank Shelly also helps us to find Earth approaching asteroids. More of it & AAVSO monitoring program at #365DaysOfAstro
Dec 19th: Near Venus to Past Jupiter & How Big It Is
Today Travelers in the Night will discuss about a 5 football field diameter asteroid which is near to the Sun as Venus. And establishment of standard stars to calibrate the measurement of the brightness of objects in space.
Sep 30th: Cecilia Payne-Gaposhkin
Today we feature Cecilia Payne-Gaposhkin, woman astronomer & astrophysicist who proposed that stars were composed primarily of hydrogen and helium.