Astrophysics - Stars Topics
Unveiling the Infrared Sky
2000 — Sept. 20, 2011
Your home computer can become a portal to a wonderland of stars, thanks to a massive release of images from an infrared sky survey sponsored by NASA and the National Science Foundation. The current release is based on a volume of data several hundred times larger than that contained in the human genome!
Counting Brown Dwarfs
2000 — April 6, 2011
Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have taken attendance in a class of brown dwarfs and found indications that these odd and elusive objects also tend to be loners. The Hubble census -- the most complete to date -- provides new and compelling evidence that stars and planets form in different ways.
One small step for Chandra …
2000 — April 6, 2011
....one giant leap for X-ray astronomy. NASA's newest Great Observatory solves a longstanding mystery.
Planets for Dessert
2000 — April 6, 2011
Next Thursday, April 6, three planets and the thin crescent Moon are going to put on a memorable sky show when the quartet converge inside a circle 9 degrees across. The grouping is just the prelude to a grander alignment of planets on May 5, 2000. Is doom at hand, as many mystics assert?