News

First image from the world’s largest solar telescope captures the sun in unheard-of detail
The National Science Foundation’s Daniel K. Inouye telescope debuted a close-up of the sun captured by its new, ...
Space on MSN7d
The brightest star in the night sky shows off this spring: How to see a scintillating Sirius
we're talking about Sirius appearing no higher than "half a fist up" from above the west-southwest horizon. Also listed is ...
Hosted on MSN1mon
Will Sirius B explode as a type Ia supernova?
When the dwarf reaches 1.4 times the mass of the Sun, the star spontaneously detonates in a fantastically bright thermonuclear blast. Nothing remains of the dwarf except debris. The Sirius system ...
Space.com7d
The brightest star in the night sky shows off this spring: How to see a scintillating Sirius
Some people probably believe that the twinkling effect is produced by the stars themselves, but that is not the case at all. Since 1986 I have had an affiliation with the Hayden Planetarium in New ...