Tag Archives: astronomy

Tuesday, 21 March 2017 A cluster of stars, mysteriously isolated from the rest of the galaxy, is under investigation by Chilean astronomers. The cluster formed without explanation very recently, mystifying astrophysicists. The cluster is SH2, about 62 million light-years from Earth in the Fornax Constellation. It is a cosmic baby, …

Wednesday, 8 March 2017   A group of scientists have devised a plan to make Mars a little more hospitable to human life. A computer modeling experiment suggests that we can use a spacecraft to create a magnetic field around Mars, shielding it from the solar wind that’s stripping its …

Thursday, 13 July 2017 Researchers with the University of Cambridge have discovered the smallest star ever observed: larger than Saturn but smaller than Jupiter, with gravity 300 times stronger than the Earth’s and about 11 times stronger than that of the sun. The elegantly named EBLM J0555-57Ab is located about …

Saturday, 1 July 2017 The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has announced that they plan to put the first Japanese astronaut on the moon by 2030 as part of the overarching mission from NASA and other space agencies to build a permanent space station in lunar orbit. The announcement came …

Wednesday, 17 May 2017 A new study of Proxima b, the closest planet outside our solar system ever discovered, suggests that the planet may actually be able to support life of its own. After decades of searching, astronomers finally discovered a planet in Alpha Centauri, our neighboring star system, in …