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759-Number 7
Hungarian astronomer and geography teacher Krisztián Sárneczky was asteroid hunting in the constellation of Lynx with 0.6m (24 inch) telescope at the Piszkéstető station in the Mátra Mountains when a…
Published on 2 years, 4 months ago
248E-260-Gliding to Space
About 20 years ago Dr. Elizabeth Austin began to investigate Polar Vortex winds during the long winter nights near the poles. One of its components, the stratospheric polar night jet, can create 300 …
Published on 2 years, 4 months ago
758-Weird Supernova
An extremely wide field of view camera, the Zwicky Transient Facility, operated by Caltech on Palomar Mountain in California is able to take images of the entire northern sky every couple of days. Th…
Published on 2 years, 4 months ago
247E-259-Trans-Neptunian
During the course of a single night our telescopes can find more than 10,000 moving objects. Fortunately our software geniuses are able to sort through this pile to allow us to focus on unknown objec…
Published on 2 years, 4 months ago
757-Alien Signals
Project Breakthrough Listen is spending $100 million over 10 years so that radio telescopes can search for signals which may indicate extraterrestrial intelligence.In a recent article in the Astronom…
Published on 2 years, 4 months ago
246E-258-Odds of Aliens
Recently Dr. Adam Frank of the University of Rochester and Dr Woodruff Sullivan of the University of Washington published a paper in which they addressed the question "What are the odds that humans a…
Published on 2 years, 4 months ago
756-Nice PHA
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate David Rankin was asteroid hunting in the constellation of Cancer with our Schmidt telescope on Mt. Bigelow, Arizona when he discovered a potentially hazardous asteroi…
Published on 2 years, 4 months ago
245E-257-Raw Asteroid
Most asteroids that we observe have been baked by the Sun for billions of years. As a result, any ices or frozen gases that they may have once possessed are long gone. Comets on the other hand have s…
Published on 2 years, 4 months ago
755-Geyser of Life-Maybe
In 2023 the James Webb Space Telescope spotted a geyser of water vapor extending more than 80% of the Earth’s diameter erupting from Saturn’s moon Enceladus. If life does exist in the salty ocean of …
Published on 2 years, 5 months ago
244E-256-Pale Blue Dot
More than 25 years ago Voyager 1 took a picture of the Earth from beyond Pluto's orbit. This image shows our home planet to be an isolated tiny pale blue dot floating in the vastness of space.
Published on 2 years, 5 months ago