The Planck Space Observatory Is Watching the Universe Being Born
In most of our articles, we have looked at the worlds in our own solar system, or orbiting relatively nearby stars. There’s so much going on in our neighborhood, it’s…
France’s COROT Satellite Is a New Kind of Space Telescope
This is the second article in our examination of the newly-emerging science of exoplanet detection and study. Last week, we took a look at NASA’s Kepler telescope, which recently completed…
NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope Has Found Five Exoplanets in the First Year of Its Mission
NASA’s Kepler space telescope just had its first birthday. Launched on March 6, 2009, this satellite is the first telescope capable of detecting planets as small as Earth orbiting other…
Study of the Sun to Take a Leap Forward in 2010
The study of the Sun has long been an important part of astronomy and the recent successful launch of the Sunrise Telescope helped to move this forward by producing stunning…
NASA's WISE Telescope Aims to Identify New Asteroids
A number of objects can be seen in the night sky using only the naked eye and many more can be identified using a simple telescope. Observing the night sky…
New Planet Discovered Orbiting a Red Dwarf Star
The array of technical equipment that has been employed in recent years to study the universe includes many great innovations such as the Hubble Space Telescope and the Sunrise Telescope.…
Largest Ever Image of Milky Way Unveiled at Adler Planetarium
It is hard for most people to comprehend the immense scale of the Milky Way galaxy that is home to our Solar System. Our Sun is only one of the…
Sunrise Telescope Captures Stunning Images of the Sun's Surface
The Sun has long held a fascination for mankind. This stretches from the early days of worship to the present day where the study of the Sun and planets increases…
Hubble Telescope Upgrade
The Hubble Space telescope’s newest camera is already filling in gaps in astronomers’ understanding of events previously too distant and remote to be studied accurately. The Wide Field Camera 3,…
A Brief History of Astronomy
Astronomy (from Greek, ‘laws governing the stars’) is an incredibly fascinating science, and arguably the first true form of science that mankind has even known, since it started several thousands…
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