Most people who read this article will know that a black hole is the result of a supernova explosion or perhaps the merger of two neutron stars. They will know its gravity is so strong, not even light can escape. But here are a few things you might not know about black holes.
Many of us have admired the beautiful images of nebulas, galaxies and other wonders. But do these objects really look like this? The answer is…yes and no.
Night vision astronomy is the technique of using a light-amplification device to either replace or augment your telescope’s eyepiece. It’s adapting the night vision optics devices used by special forces to an astronomical application.
Voyager 2 launched August 20, 1977. It was followed a couple of weeks later by Voyager 1 on September 5, 1977. This same year Jimmy Carter was sworn in as the 39th president of the US and Radio Shack introduced a new TRS-80 personal computer. To put the computing power in perspective, the TRS-80 had…
With the increased attention put on Mars by Elon Musk and NASA, there is finally some hope that humans may visit the red planet within 10 years. Will we send men or women? Missions to Mars 55 missions have been sent to Mars. Due to the Mars Curse perhaps, only 53% have been successful (6…
Spacejunk The skies above our heads are getting crowded. While there are 2666 active satellites as of April 1 2020, it is estimated there are over 900,000 derelict satellites, rocket bodies and other objects able to be tracked. The US Space Surveillance Network estimates there are over 128 million other pieces under 1 cm like…
Too large to be planets and too small to be stars, brown dwarfs are the Goldilocks of objects that fall somewhere in the middle – within the range of 13 to 80 Jupiter masses (MJ).
For many years we have known the Milky Way is a spiral galaxy. But in 2004 data from the Spitzer Space Telescope showed this is not your ordinary spiral.
Let’s start with the unfair assumption that we’re only considering life as we know it, which requires water. It’s quite possible there are many other types of life, but those would be speculative, and this discussion will focus on life as we understand it today. We’ll further assume life is most likely to be found…
Beyond similarities to a Pixar animated film, this image tells a compelling story: environmental sustainability is not contained to just Earth. Debris and man-made wastage can be seen everywhere, including environments such as space.
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