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Leonids 2016 Coming Soon

Leonids 2016 Coming Soon  It’s November, and that means it’s time to look out for Leonid Meteors. The best viewing will more than likely be it’s peak on November 17 between midnight and dawn. The...

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Equality Is A Birthright Among Stars

Equality Is A Birthright Among Stars By Judith E Braffman-Miller Star-birth occurs when an especially dense region embedded within a beautiful giant, dark, and frigid molecular cloud collapses under...

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Pluto: Secrets Of The Heart

Pluto: Secrets Of The Heart By Judith E Braffman-Miller Far away in the semi-darkness of a perpetual dusk, there is a frigid domain in our Solar System’s outer fringes where our Sun can shine with only...

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ASTEROID FLYBY

Nov 27, 2016   ASTEROID FLY BY #NEO On November 1, 2016, near-Earth asteroid, 2016 VA, was discovered by astronomers of the Mount Lemmon Sky Survey and later the same day by the Minor Planet Center....

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The Grand Canyon Of A Sun-Scorched World

The Grand Canyon Of A Sun-Scorched World By Judith E Braffman-Miller Mercury is a Sun-scorched small world, whose ancient origins remain well-cloaked in mystery. As the closest major planet to our...

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Welcoming A New Family Of Stars Into Our Galaxy’s Heart

Welcoming A New Family Of Stars Into Our Galaxy’s Heart By Judith E Braffman-Miller The starlit galaxies of the observable Universe were born very long ago, and began to cast their brilliant,...

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A Beautiful Cosmic Oddity Weaves A Tangled Web

A Beautiful Cosmic Oddity Weaves A Tangled Web By Judith E Braffman-Miller The myriad of starlit galaxies inhabiting the Universe first switched on billions of years ago–sending their newborn dancing...

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Thousands Of Galaxies Are In The Dark

Thousands Of Galaxies Are In The Dark By Judith E Braffman-Miller Strange objects lurk in our weird Universe, hiding secretively in bewitching darkness, making themselves difficult to see. Dark...

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Is The Big Bang Theory Legitimate?

Is The Big Bang Theory Legitimate? By Lance Winslow What do really smart people like to do? Well, they like to do thought experiments and have intellectual discourse about intriguing theories. Nothing...

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A Distant Star Reveals The Future Of Our Sun

  A Distant Star Reveals The Future Of Our Sun By Judith E Braffman-Miller Stars are a lot like people–they are born, grow up, grow old, and finally and inevitably die. About 5.4 billion years from...

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