Articles about astronomy and space exploration.
Welcome to the year-end issue of Stargazing, an ongoing series of guides to what’s happening in the night sky, as well as space exploration news and discoveries. It’s the end of 2012 and what a year it has been for astronomy!1 Exoplanets 2012 was an amazing year for the discovery of planets outside our solar …
European astronomers announced yesterday the discovery of a planet similar in mass to Earth orbiting Alpha Centauri B. Details of the discovery will appear today in an online paper published in the scientific journal Nature. The planet was discovered using the “wobble method” where astronomers watch for wobbles in the motion of a star that …
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Welcome to the October issue of Stargazing, an ongoing series of monthly guides to what’s happening in the night sky, as well as what major space events are scheduled during the coming month.
Welcome to the September issue of Stargazing, an ongoing series of monthly guides to what’s happening in the night sky, as well as what major space events are scheduled during the coming month.
Welcome to Stargazing, the first in an ongoing series of monthly guides to what’s coming up in the night sky, as well as what major space events are scheduled during the coming month.