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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, …
3 years, 2 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 o…
3 years, 2 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 throu…
3 years, 2 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 extraterrestria…
3 years, 2 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 addre…
3 years, 2 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 …
3 years, 2 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 posses…
3 years, 3 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 En…
3 years, 3 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 …
3 years, 3 months ago
754-Very Fast Moving Objects In The Night Sky
Very small fast moving asteroids pass through our solar system.About once a month an object like 2023 KU4 enters our atmosphere, releases the energy…
3 years, 3 months ago