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Supermassive Black Hole Image A First For Astronomy

This week, the world of astronomy has been abuzz with news of the very first supermassive black hole image. The supermassive black hole is located 55 million light-years away at the center of M87, a …

Exoplanet Observed Using Light Combined From Optical Telescopes

Exoplanet Observed Using Light From Optical Telescopes

James Miller

For the first time in history an exoplanet has been observed using optical interferometry. The process involved combining the light from multiple individual telescopes to reveal a single target in greater detail than any single …

Destroying Earthbound Asteroid Harder Than Thought

James Miller

Around 66 million years ago, a huge 10-15 kilometers wide asteroid abruptly ended the 180 million year reign of the dinosaurs. The devastation which has left a 150 kilometers in diameter crater, the second-largest crater …

Oumuamua: Asteroid, Comet or Alien Probe?

James Miller

One just has to watch television shows such as The History Channel and the Sci-Fi Channel to see so-called experts like Giorgio A. Tsoukalos promoting belief in UFOs and ancient alien astronauts. It comes as …

Chinese Land Rover On Dark Side Of Moon

James Miller

The image above shows the culmination of the Chinese space agency’s Chang’e 4 mission to the dark side of the Moon. In the photo, the mission’s Jade Rabbit 2 lunar rover can be seen rolling …

Voyager 2 Becomes Second Human-made Object to Leave Solar System

James Miller

The artist’s impression above shows the approximate current positions of both Voyager spacecraft relative to the Sun and other surviving spacecraft. Note that while Voyager 1 left the solar system in 2012 above the orbital …

Barnard’s Star Hosts a Frozen Super-Earth

James Miller

The image above shows an artists’ impression of what the surface of the super-Earth orbiting Barnard’s Star might look like. However, given that the planet receives only about 2% of the light Earth receives from …

Megawatt-Class Laser Beamed into Space Could Attract Alien Attention

James Miller

The image above shows a focused laser beam shooing into space from Earth, which some researchers hope might attract the attention of alien astronomers. According to a new study by James Clark and Kerri Cahoy, …

Is Pluto a Planet After All, And Should We Care?

James Miller

The image above shows an oblique view of the Norgay and Hillary mountain ranges, and an extensive ice field on Pluto, as photographed by the New Horizons mission. To many people, it would seem that …

Orionid Meteor Shower To Last Until November 7th

James Miller

The Orionids reached its peak on Oct. 21st when up to 20 meteors an hour could be seen in the night sky. Nevertheless, the annual celestial event takes place for almost five weeks between October …