Does our Oort Cloud overlap with Alpha Centauri’s?
About 2,000 to 5,000 astronomical units (AU; where 1 AU is the average distance between Earth and the Sun) from the Sun lies the beginning of the Oort Cloud. For context, the Voyager spacecrafts —...
Astronomy club guest will talk about rocks from Mars and the search for signs of life there
It would surely be inaccurate to say Nanaimo Astronomy Society’s next guest speaker has rocks in his head, but they are certainly foremost on his mind, especially rocks from Mars. Chris Herd is an...
Astronomers launch new asteroid-classification system based on animal sizes
A new system for classifying the sizes of small planetary objects using animals has been launched by the European Space Agency (ESA) in a bid to clear up misconceptions introduced after an asteroid...
FLOOFY OBJECTS AND OTHER TALES OF ASTRONOMICAL IMPOSSIBILITY
Astronomers aren’t holding back this year, with brand-new submissions to this year’s highly prestigious (and fictitious) Acta Prima Aprilia. The skills astronomers learn in critical thinking,...
Hubble spots the farthest star ever seen
At the risk of sounding like a broken record, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has broken another record. The Hubble Space Telescope has imaged the most distant star ever seen, according to a study...
Astronomers spot a vast, mysterious circle in space
Astronomers have spotted an enormous and mysterious object more than a million light-years across, called an odd radio circle (ORC). ORCs were first identified in 2019, and now researchers have...
Lagos Govt tasks youth on environmental sustainability
The Lagos State Government has tasked youths on environmental sustainability and the need to adopt a more sustainable lifestyle. The Lagos government gave the charge yesterday through its...
Astronomers Find Protoplanetary Disks in Orion Molecular Clouds
Astronomers using NSF’s Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array have detected 97 disks of gas and dust around young protostars in the constellation of...
