Linda Schweizer tells the story of Palomar observatory in ‘Cosmic Odyssey’
New MIT Press looks at how intrepid astronomers at Palomar observatory changed our view of the universe
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Milky Way family tree
Astrophysicists reconstruct the galaxy merger history of our home galaxy
Read moreGrowing interest in Moon resources could cause tension, scientists find
New research indicates that limited resources on Earth’s satellite could cause crowding and competition as site selection, extraction become reality
Read moreGalaxy encounter violently disturbed Milky Way, study finds
The long-held belief that the Milky Way, the galaxy containing Earth and the solar system, is relatively static has been ruptured by fresh cosmic insight
Read moreCornell-designed Arecibo telescope ‘an inestimable loss’
In the wake of two recent support-cable failures, the National Science Foundation (NSF) will decommission and dismantle the giant dish at Arecibo Observatory – the world-class radio telescope in Puerto Rico that was conceived by Cornell University faculty, built with federal funding and then managed by Cornell for its first five decades.
Read moreField geology at Mars’ equator points to ancient megaflood
Floods of unimaginable magnitude once washed through Gale Crater on Mars’ equator around 4 billion years ago – a finding that hints at the possibility that life may have existed there, according to data collected by NASA’s Curiosity rover and analyzed in joint project by scientists from Jackson State University, Cornell University, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the University of Hawaii.
Read moreField geology at Mars’ equator points to ancient megaflood
ITHACA, N.Y. – Floods of unimaginable magnitude once washed through Gale Crater on Mars’ equator around 4 billion years ago
Read moreNRL researchers catch supermassive black holes launching newborn radio jets
WASHINGTON — U.S. Naval Research Laboratory researchers led a team of scientists who discovered some of the youngest known radio
Read moreFamed Arecibo Observatory faces collapse, NSF to decommission telescope
The Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico is famed for its key role in discovering the first planets outside our solar
Read moreChemical physicist to collaborate on NASA-funded study of Saturn’s moon Titan
Findings will contribute to NASA’s mission to Titan in 2026
Read moreNSF plans to decommission Arecibo Observatory’s 305m telescope due to safety concerns
Following a review of engineering assessments that found damage to the Arecibo Observatory cannot be stabilized without risk to construction
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In the mysterious Blue Ring Nebula, scientists see the fate of binary stars
In 2004, scientists with NASA’s Galaxy Evolution Explorer spotted an object unlike any they’d seen in our Milky Way Galaxy: a large, faint blob of gas that seemed to have a star at its center.
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