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More Views of the 2024 Eclipse, from the Moon and Earth Orbit April 16, 2024
It’s been just over a week since millions of people flocked to places across North America for a glimpse of moonshadow. The total solar eclipse of April 8th, 2024 was a spectacular sight for many on the ground. From space, however, it was even more impressive as Earth-observing satellites such as GOES-16 captured the sight […]
Carolyn Collins Petersen
Baby Stars Discharge “Sneezes” of Gas and Dust April 16, 2024
I’m really not sure what to call it but a ‘dusty sneeze’ is probably as good as anything. We have known for some years that stars surround themselves with a disk of gas and dust known as the protostellar disk. The star interacts with it, occasionally discharging gas and dust regularly. Studying the magnetic fields […]
Mark Thompson
How Did Pluto Get Its Heart? Scientists Suggest an Answer April 15, 2024
The most recognizable feature on Pluto is its “heart,” a relatively bright valentine-shaped area known as Tombaugh Regio. How that heart got started is one of the dwarf planet’s deepest mysteries — but now researchers say they’ve come up with the most likely scenario, involving a primordial collision with a planetary body that was a […]
Alan Boyle
The Milky Way’s Role in Ancient Egyptian Mythology April 15, 2024
Look through the names and origins of the constellations and you will soon realise that many cultures had a hand in their conceptualisation. Among them are the Egyptians who were fantastic astronomers. The movement of the sky played a vital role in ancient Egypt including the development of the 365 day year and the 24 […]
Mark Thompson
You Can't Know the True Size of an Exoplanet Without Knowing its Star's Magnetic Field April 15, 2024
In 2011, astronomers with the Wide Angle Search for Planets (WASP) consortium detected a gas giant orbiting very close to a Sun-like (G-type) star about 700 light-years away. This planet is known as WASP-39b (aka. “Bocaprins”), one of many “hot Jupiters” discovered in recent decades that orbits its star at a distance of less than […]
Matt Williams

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