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581-Planet Hunting
The hunt is on for Earth like planets which are close enough for us to study in detail. The NASA Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS for s…
5 years, 11 months ago
69E-81-Views From The Shores Of The Cosmic Ocean
Before artificial lighting many people knew the night sky the way humans of today know their favorite TV channels. There are still places where you c…
5 years, 11 months ago
580-Kacper's Debut
On his first night of solo observing with our Schmidt telescope on Mt. Bigelow, Arizona, my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Kacper Wierzchos discovered …
6 years ago
68E-80-Rocks From Space Tell A Tale
The history of our part of the Universe is written with a fine point in the space rocks which orbit our Sun. Some of them carry small grains of mater…
6 years ago
579-Martian Vacation
SpaceX's new rockets fuel the dream of visiting some of the planet Mars' unique and spectacular wonders. Today you can visit the NASA Mars Curiosity …
6 years ago
67E-79-Interplanetary Travelers-Lunar Meteorites
About one out of a thousand meteorites that you find on Earth started out on the Moon. They were given escape velocity from the Moon as a result of …
6 years ago
578-First PHA
Assuming the first potentially hazardous asteroid of 2020 has a chemical composition similar to the stony meteorites we find on Earth, it could conta…
6 years ago
66E-78-Up Close And Personal With A Comet
From the dawn of recorded history, comets have been viewed as the bringers of everything from gloom and doom to water and life. In reality, comets a…
6 years ago
577-Comet Fuls
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Carson Fuls was asteroid hunting in the constellation of Leo when he spotted a faint fuzzy looking object with a tail…
6 years ago
65E-77-Extremely Old World Could Harbor life
Radar beams that are reflected from your car as you travel down a highway reveal your speed and direction. In a similar way, scientists using a tel…
6 years ago