Stars
Star Facts: Aldebaran
Aldebaran (Alpha Tauri) is the brightest star in the constellation Taurus, and the 14th most luminous star in the entire night sky. Although it is relatively close to Earth, the Pioneer 10 space probe currently […]
Month: April 2017
Star Constellations
Star Constellation Facts: Lacerta
Lacerta (“the lizard”) is a small, faint constellation of the northern skies that was created by Polish astronomer Johannes Hevelius in 1687. Its brightest star is Alpha Lacertae, a blue dwarf situated 102 light years […]
Star Constellations
Star Constellation Facts: Fornax
Fornax (“the furnace”) is an extremely faint southern sky constellation that was devised by French astronomer Nicolas Louis de Lacaille during the mid-18th century. The brightest star in this obscure constellation, Dalim, is a binary […]
Star Constellations
Star Constellation Facts: Tucana
Tucana is a small, dim constellation of the southern skies that is one of 12 created by Petrus Plancius in the late 16th-century, based upon the observations of Dutch explorers Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser and Frederick […]
Black Holes
Event Horizon Telescope to Glimpse Milky Way’s Black Hole
Astronomers have now brought the Event Horizon Telescope online, and turned it towards the supermassive black hole situated at the center of our Milky Way called Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*). The 10-day project will run […]
Astronomy Lists
10 Interesting Surface Features on Mars
Mars has been in the human consciousness since pre-historic times, and can easily be seen as noticeably red with the naked eye as a result of iron oxides in its surface material. At its closest […]