There are billions of stars out there, made up of many different types. Stars are categorized based on a few physical features including color and temperature, the elements they are made of, and their size. There are some stars that are much larger than our Sun....
Flat-earthers push aside the witness and photos of countless astronomers throughout the years and around the world, who have taken pictures of the planets and distant galaxies. They proclaim that there are no real planets, and that they are just projections or lights. There are astronomy clubs...
There is another stage of the Pre-Main Sequence that some stars go through, that is referred to as T Tauri, which is named after T Tauri, a young star in the Taurus star-forming region. This stage is when the protostar has cleared the surrounding dust and clouds but is not yet on th...
My most memorable "discovery" happened 20 years ago when, after a rain, the night sky cleared and the transparency was amazing. I took my 76/900 Baytronix newtonian and when panning around Sirius (at that time i did not used charts or any other reference), i found a fuzzy ball, so i...
There is probably no life of our type in the solar system outside Earth itself. But is there life on planets circling other stars Before we can really try to answer that, we have to ask if there are planets circling other stars. Over five hundred years ago, Nicholas of Cusa took it ...
Related:From 'Abol' to 'Yvaga': 224 stars and planets get new names for year of indigenous languages The IAUtightened up the naming rulesin its second "NameExoWorlds" contest in 2019. And while they were at it, they came to realize that there was no accepted list of star names that...
Some of us are Starseeds. We come from other planets. A lot of times, we feel like we don’t belong because, you know, this is not our home planet. Tell me a little bit about Starseeds. Jamie (still looking around): Damn, there are a bunch of other people in the room!
Planets or not? Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn look like bright stars when viewed from Earth. They can appear anywhere in a band wrapping all the way around the sky called the zodiac. If a star chart is made for a particular month in a particular year, it may show the plan...
What might happen if the bright star Sirius exploded in a supernova? How long would it be before we found out that it had happened? Everyone realizes how dependent we Earthlings are on the Sun, but ho Besides the sun, ...
Eventually, skirmishes developed between the occupants of the two planets. Mars was rich in resources, and the people of Maldek thought they deserved them for survival. The Martians asked the beings of Sirius A, from the planet Khoom, for defense technology to shield their planet from attack,...