by Colin Stuart | Dec 5, 2014 | Astronomy news, Uncategorised
NASA’s Dawn spacecraft is getting closer to the biggest asteroid in the asteroid belt every day. Also classified as a dwarf planet due to its round shape, Ceres is set to be visited by the probe next year. Dawn will start to make its approach on Boxing Day (Dec...
by Colin Stuart | Dec 4, 2014 | Astronomy news, Uncategorised
Awesome news in this morning. The European Southern Observatory (ESO) have approved the construction of the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT) in the arid Atacama desert in Chile. Already home to some of the world’s best telescopes, such as the Very...
by Colin Stuart | Dec 3, 2014 | Astronomy news, Uncategorised
The search for life beyond the Earth is one of the driving factors behind modern astronomy. For a long time a debate has raged about the habitability of planets around red dwarf stars. This latest study adds fuel to those flames. Such stars are by far the most common...
by Colin Stuart | Dec 2, 2014 | Astronomy news, Uncategorised
I’ve just seen this beautiful video from Swedish artist Erik Wernquist. He imagines what our future in the solar system might look like and it is nothing short of spectacular. Carl Sagan provides the stirring narration.
by Colin Stuart | Dec 2, 2014 | Astronomy news, Uncategorised
The team behind the European Space Agency’s Planck satellite has released their latest set of data stemming from observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) between 2009 and 2013. What they’ve found strongly supports the prevailing view of how...
