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856-Big One
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Vivian Carvajal was asteroid hunting in the constellation of Cepheus with our small but mighty Schmidt telescope on Mt. Bigelow, Arizona when she discovered 2025 JB1.F…
Published on 5 months, 3 weeks ago
343E-366-3 Explorers
Recently, my Grandsons, Dane and Hank joined our asteroid hunting team at the Catalina Sky Survey 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon. The most interesting of our discoveries, 2017 KJ32 is only 16 feet i…
Published on 5 months, 3 weeks ago
855-Planetary Defense
In 2016 NASA created the Planetary Defense Coordination Office to manage the mission of finding, tracking, and studying asteroids and comets which could pose an impact threat to our home planet.The N…
Published on 5 months, 4 weeks ago
342E-365-Tabby's Star
The mystery of Tabby's star began to unfold when in 2015 Dr. Tabetha S. Boyajian [boy-AA-jee-uhn] of Louisiana State University and her team published a paper describing the irregular dips in the lig…
Published on 6 months ago
854-Weird Planet Exotic Life?
Data are consistent with the hypothesis that the planet K2-18b is a Hycean planet with a warm liquid water ocean teaming with life and a thin hydrogen rich atmosphere containing methane and other mol…
Published on 6 months ago
341E-364-Laser Surfing
When we find a planet which appears to have the chemical signs of living organisms in its atmosphere, the desire to take a close up look at it will be hard to contain. In a Scientific American articl…
Published on 6 months, 1 week ago
853-Tardigrade
In the search for life on Mars, Europa, Titan, and elsewhere in the universe astro-biologists are scouring the Earth for creatures tough enough to flourish under really difficult conditions. So far t…
Published on 6 months, 1 week ago
852-Landing On Mars
The good news is a Mars landing by human colonists and their equipment seems technically feasible given a large budget of cash and grit.
Published on 6 months, 2 weeks ago
339E-359-Ice World
Recently Dr. Yossi Shvartzvald led a team which published their discovery of an Earth sized planet using microlensing in the Astrophysical Journal Letters. The newly discovered planet OGLE-2016-BLG-1…
Published on 6 months, 3 weeks ago
851-Scientists Views Odds of Aliens
In a recent paper published in Nature Astronomy entitled “Surveys of the scientific community on the existence of extraterrestrial life” Dr. Peter Vickers and his team of 10 co-authors report the re…
Published on 6 months, 3 weeks ago