Category: Astronomy Stuff

Super-Earths are fascinating exoplanet “oddballs” that are unlike anything in our own Solar System. Smaller than the quartet of outer,[…]

Mysterious, vast, and blasted with the distant flames of countless stars, our night sky has long been a source of[…]

A marvelous starlit pin-wheel whirling majestically in Space, our ancient barred spiral Milky Way Galaxy plays host to our Sun[…]

Mysterious and enticing–a true Wonderland world–Mars has sung its scientific siren’s song for years to those who seek to understand[…]

Supernova 1987A (SN 1987A) heralded the explosive and brilliant death of a massive star, whose powerful, fiery, wandering light reached[…]

Hiding in the secretive hearts of perhaps every large galaxy in the Universe, they lurk with sinister intent, waiting for[…]

Poised brilliantly on the shoulder of Orion The Hunter, the red supergiant, superstar Betelgeuse sparkles ominously, mysteriously in the sky–silently[…]

The death of a star is a spectacular, often beautiful, farewell performance that launches newly formed atomic elements screeching into[…]

Dwelling in our Milky Way Galaxy, about 300 light-years away, there is a small star named HIP68468. This little star[…]

Silently, secretly, and swathed in a strange, exotic material woven of an invisible form of mysterious matter, it lurks in[…]