It’s a familiar view to those who watched Matt Damon’s character Mark Watney fight for survival in "The Martian," yet…
Oil at lowest level since July 2004
AAA put the average U.S. gas price at $1.998 per gallon on Monday, while fuel-price tracking service GasBuddy.com calculated the…
“More Complex Than a Galaxy?” –Human-Brain Intelligence Networks Identified for First Time
According to physicist, Roger Penrose, What’s in our head is orders of magnitude more complex than anything one sees in…
Mostly Mute Monday: Top 10 Bizarre Galaxy Pairs From Hubble (Synopsis)
“For me, the study of these laws is inseparable from a love of Nature in all its manifestations.” – Murray…
Daily Image Release: Enceladus, Old and New
Enceladus elegantly displays the contrast between its older and newer terrain. The smooth regions on the left are believed to…
The Christmas Comet
We have a reasonably bright comet that is visible this Christmas week. Comet C/2013 US10 (Catalina) exhibits two tails in…
Christmas Moon and Mars (December 25, 2015), New Years Jupiter and Moon (1 January, 2016)
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Oxygenation: Gradual Process, Profound Results
The vast changes our planet has undergone since formation add a real sense of humility to the exoplanet hunt. It’s…
The skeleton of the Milky Way
Our home galaxy, the Milky Way, is a typical barred spiral galaxy, a flattened disk of about a hundred billion…
AAS Winter Meeting #AAS227
It’s that time of year again. The Winter meeting of the American Astronomical Society is nearly upon us. To make…
Telescopically 