Scientists Spot Seven Earth-Sized Planets Orbiting a Nearby Star
This newly discovered solar system presents the best opportunity yet to study potentially habitable worlds, NASA scientists report
See a faint star cluster near bright Sirius
Tonight, look for the sky’s brightest star, Sirius, and the faint star cluster near it. Sirius is easy to see because it’s so bright and because the three prominent Belt stars in the constellation Orion – three stars in a short, straight row – always point to it.
Sky solution to help endangered species
An astrophysicist and an ecologist are combining their expertise using drones, thermal cameras and the techniques used to analyse objects in space in order to help endangered species.
This Week's Sky at a Glance, February 17 – 25 – Sky & Telescope
Today in science: Quasar mystery solved
In 1963, Maarten Schmidt suddenly realized that quasars are exceedingly distant and unimaginably luminous. His revelation changed our notion of what the universe is like.
When galaxies collide, black holes eat
When our Milky Way galaxy and neighboring Andromeda galaxy collide, supermassive black holes will have a feast!
Your new moon is January 27 or 28
This new moon is January 28, 2017 at 00:07 UTC … just after midnight by clocks in England. It’ll be the evening of January 27 for us in the Americas, or January 28 for Asia.
