Collaborate Disseminate
We as humans are limited in the ways we can look at things ourselves, and rely on on the different perspectives and insights of others to help make sense of things. All it takes is one person to look at a data set and find something completely different that changes …read more
Continue reading Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin Saw Through the Stars
The Sun is getting grumpy again after years of relative peace. Continue reading Weekend Solar Storm May Create Auroras As Far South As Vancouver and NYC
DM Tau has its own asteroid belt, and may be developing its own versions of Earth and Neptune, too. Continue reading Astronomers Peer at a Young Star System That Is Strikingly Similar to Our Own
It’s one of 19 asteroids that have been detected within Earth’s orbit. Continue reading Scientists Discover the Closest Known Asteroid to the Sun
A leading explanation for the different patterns seen in Earth’s northern and southern auroras has been ruled out. Continue reading Scientists Solve the Mystery of Why the Northern and Southern Lights Don’t Match
The probe crossed the heliopause, the boundary between the heliosphere and the interstellar medium, on November 5. Continue reading Voyager 2 Joins Its Twin in Interstellar Space
The Sun’s poles remain mysterious, but scientists are poring over past imaging data to construct artificial images of what they look like. Continue reading This Is What the Sun’s North Pole Looks Like
A new observational method offers a look inside the guts of a star, with surprising results. Continue reading Into the Guts of the Universe’s Most Perfect Known Sphere
Ten trillionths of your sun tan is the result of photons made by distant stars and supermassive black holes. Continue reading How to Get an Intergalactic Sun Tan Without Leaving Earth
Forget Instagram: The Solar Dynamics Observatory has all the best camera filters. Continue reading NASA’s Advanced Solar Observatory Captured Mercury’s Transit for the First Time