WHAT’S UP IN THE SKY: A look at the stars of Harry Potter | Astronomy
Today: One minor Harry Potter character actually has two well-known star names: Regulus Arcturus Black, the brother of…
Pluto’s Thin Atmosphere May Be Starting to Shrink
Pluto’s tenuous atmosphere appears to have begun contracting after years of holding steady, according to a new study…
WHAT’S UP IN THE SKY: Microwaves from outer space | Astronomy
Today: Let’s learn about Capella. It is the fourth brightest star we can see in Ellensburg. It is…
Frozen ocean world found lurking between Mars and Jupiter
The scars on Ceres should have softened by now. That was the long-running problem. If the dwarf planet’s…
Earth’s Building Blocks Came from Close to Home, Planetary Scientists Say
A new analysis of isotopic signatures across planets and meteorite parent bodies suggests our home world formed entirely…
Trans-Neptunian Object Quaoar Has Two Moons, New Study Suggests
The newly-discovered moon has an estimated diameter of 38 km (23.6 miles) and a V magnitude of 28,…
WHAT’S UP IN THE SKY: Into the cart when nobody’s looking – dailyrecordnews.com
WHAT’S UP IN THE SKY: Into the cart when nobody’s looking dailyrecordnews.comSt. Maarten’s Backyard Astronomy for October 10 –…
WHAT’S UP IN THE SKY: The ‘early to bed’ meteor shower – dailyrecordnews.com
WHAT’S UP IN THE SKY: The ‘early to bed’ meteor shower dailyrecordnews.comWhen to see meteor shower coincide with rare…
Webb Detects Methane Gas on Dwarf Planet Makemake
Using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have found evidence for gaseous methane on the distant dwarf…
Is There Actually A Ninth Planet In Our Solar System? Here’s What We Know
On August 24, 2006, our solar system lost a planet. It wasn’t by cataclysmic destruction, but rather by…