Messier 41 open cluster. Credit: NOIRLab / NSF / AURA. License: CC BY 4.0.Embark on an enthralling journey through the cosmos with our comprehensive guide to stargazing in January 2024! This month, the skies are poised to offer a captivating display of celestial phenomena, from the Little Beehive Cluster’s ascent to meteor showers and...
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SpaceX conducted its third integrated flight test (IFT-3) of the fully stacked Starship and Super Heavy rocket on March 14, 2024 from Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas. The launch aimed to build upon...
I was immediately branded a Marxist when I cited the following article on a forum. I explained that if it describes the problem, to a certain extent I don’t care who wrote it....
Astronomers analyzing 13 years of data from NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have found an unexpected and as yet unexplained feature outside of our galaxy.
"It is a completely serendipitous discovery," said Alexander Kashlinsky, a...
Satellites are more likely to be at risk from high-speed solar wind than a major geomagnetic storm according to a new UK-US study published this week in the Journal Space Weather.
Researchers investigating the space...
Researchers at KAIST, in collaboration with multiple institutions, have experimentally confirmed the three-dimensional vortex-shaped polarization distribution inside ferroelectric nanoparticles. Using atomic electron tomography, they...
Rick Boozer is available to give the following presentations
at club meetings and conventions (as well as other public events).
Hunting an Exoplanet with Stellar Photometry
The...
In October 2022, an international team of researchers, including Northwestern University astrophysicists, observed the brightest gamma-ray burst (GRB) ever recorded, GRB 221009A.
Now, a Northwestern-led...
A Yale-led research team has proposed that large asteroid impacts could have abruptly triggered “Snowball” Earth periods, where the planet was encased in ice,...