Wednesday, December 13, 2023
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The Geminids meteor showers are peaking Dec 13 & 14th in N. America. The Geminids are unusual as the shooting stars are caused by an asteroid, and not a comet. The y appear to emanate from the constellation Gemini in the southern sky.
Wednesday, December 6, 2023
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Wednesday, November 29, 2023
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The Existence of Dark matter in our universe has been confirmed by scientific observations, including recent pictures from the Webb telescope. However, no experimental observation of Dark matter has been reported.
Wednesday, November 22, 2023
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Ensisheim is the oldest meteorite fall that can be positively dated. It was carefully preserved by being hung from the roof of the parish church in Ensisheim, Alsace.
Wednesday, November 15, 2023
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Thanks to everyone who pledged during our fundraiser!
Wednesday, November 8, 2023
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A Cosmic Fundraising Soundtrack
Wednesday, October 25, 2023
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9,000 years ago a Milky Way star exploded in a supernova, leaving behind the Veil Nebula. This nebula is physically huge, containing one filament, NGC 6960, known as the Witch's Broom Nebula, and another, NGC 6995, known as The Bat Nebula.
Wednesday, October 18, 2023
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The Milky Way is warped. Our galaxy’s wobbly disc might be the result of a tilted halo of the universe’s mysterious dark matter. Or the cause might be the psych/space-rock radio waves of Space is Deep.
Wednesday, October 11, 2023
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LDN 43 is a nebula which bears an astonishing resemblance to a vast cosmic bat flying amongst the stars on a dark Halloween night. In the constellation Ophiuchus, this molecular cloud is dense enough to block light from background stars.
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Astronomers spotted shockwaves shaking the web of the universe, could the cause be Space is Deep as we broadcast across the astral plane?
Tuesday, September 26, 2023
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Van Maanen 2 is the closest known solitary white dwarf to the Solar System. It is a dense, compact stellar remnant no longer generating energy and has equivalent to about 68% of the Sun's mass but only 1% of its radius.
Tuesday, September 19, 2023
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Scientists say the Milky Way's disc is warped. Is that because its dark matter halo is tilted?
Tuesday, September 12, 2023
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Tuesday, September 5, 2023
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The Secret Lives of Neutron Stars
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The Cartwheel Galaxy was once a normal spiral galaxy but is now recovering from a head-on collision with a smaller runaway galaxy many millions of years earlier in its history.
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And clouds obscured the stars...
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Situated in the globular cluster M4, the pulsar PSR B1620-26 rotates more than 90 times per second and has a mass of about 1.3 solar masses.
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This weekend is the Perseids Meteor shower, named for the constellation they appear to radiate from (Perseus) in the northeastern sky. The meteors occur as the earth passes through debris - Ice & rocks, left behind by the Comet Swift-Tuttle.
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In 1572, Tycho Brahe observed a supernova in the constellation Cassiopeia and recorded its brightness changes in exceptional detail. This brilliant new object helped astronomers reject the idea that the heavens were immutable.
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16 Psyche is a large metallic asteroid in our asteroid belt, discovered in 1852 by Italian astronomer Annibale De Gasparis & named after the Greek Goddess Psyche (Goddess of the Soul).
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Prometheus is a small, potato-shaped moon orbiting just inside Saturn's multi-stranded F ring. They are connected by a fine thread of material, and it is possible that Prometheus is pulling particles out of the F ring.
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Evolution
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The meteorite Glatton was discovered by English civil servant Arthur Pettifor on May 5, 1991. While out planting onions, he heard a loud whining noise and noticed a conifer waving around. Underneath the tree was a small lukewarm stone.
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The answer is blowing in the cosmic winds...
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The Jewel Box, also known as the Kappa Crusis cluster, is an open cluster of about 100 stars and is about 29 light-years across. At less than 20 million years old, it is one of the youngest open clusters known.
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Scientists have created a space rock soundscape of a black hole star system called V404 Cygni using sonfication, a method that assigns sounds to collected telescope data.
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Abell 2218 is a spectacular example of a highly evolved and extremely dense galaxy cluster. It contains more than 250 mostly elliptical galaxies in a volume of space roughly 1 million light-years across.
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Galactic bubbles are more complex than previously imagined
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Camelopardalis is a dim constellation of the far northern sky, representing a giraffe, and was introduced in the early 17th century on a celestial globe created by the Dutch astronomer Petrus Plancius
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This week’s fun space fact - our sun is actually quite puny compared to many other stars.
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Ovda Regio is one of a handful of highland regions on Venus that displays a type of complex ridge terrain known as tessera
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New study says medium sized black holes eat stars like “messy toddlers” - taking a few “bites" then flinging the remains across the galaxy. Black holes need galactic bibs?
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The constellation Cetus is depicted on old star charts as an unlikely-looking, almost comical, hybrid sea monster.
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New discoveries in the vibrations of the universe
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The Antennae Galaxies appear as a central bright double knot of material, with two long streamers of of stars stretching in opposite directions, resembling an insect's antennae
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Neutron star mergers cause Furbies* in space
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For Those Times You Find Yourself Aimlessly Drifting Through the Aftermath of a Supernova
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Are there seasons in space?
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Cause and Effect
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There are always new discoveries in space
Tuesday, February 28, 2023
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Embarking on a new mission in the two person shuttlecraft
Tuesday, February 21, 2023
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Retiring the spacecraft
Tuesday, February 14, 2023
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If The aliens are invading Montana in February - Good Luck!
Tuesday, February 7, 2023
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For Those Times When A Virus Changes All Your Mates Into Large Porcupines, Then You Remember That You Are A Member Of A Race Of Large Porcupines And Perhaps You Had Too Much Tree Sap Last Night
Tuesday, January 31, 2023
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I missed my stop on the bus and now we're in another galaxy
Tuesday, January 24, 2023
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The eerie sound of an extraterrestrial whirlwind
Tuesday, January 17, 2023
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For Those Times You Wonder Whether It Snows On Jupiter
Tuesday, January 10, 2023
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Gravitational fields forever
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Time warp in space - Happy new year!
Tuesday, December 27, 2022
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The Challenge of Coordinating an Intergalactic Zoom Call Where Every Participant Has a Different Day Length
Tuesday, December 20, 2022
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The trans-galactic highway is icy today
Tuesday, December 13, 2022
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Surfing on the galactic currents of 2022
Tuesday, December 6, 2022
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For Those Times You Question Whether Your Surroundings Are From A Different Universe
Tuesday, November 29, 2022
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We haven't even left the exosphere and I already have motion sickness
Tuesday, November 22, 2022
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Scientists say Neutron stars are like a box of chocolates, but I'm not going to try tasting one.
Tuesday, November 15, 2022
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Consigned to the Furthest Reaches of the Universe
Tuesday, November 8, 2022
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Thanks for putting fuel in the rocket boosters
Tuesday, November 1, 2022
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Help keep the WMBR Starship flying - please donate during our 2022 fundraiser!
Tuesday, October 25, 2022
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For Those Times When You Walk Through The Hydroponics Area And Encounter A Monolith
