Archive for February, 2006

Supernova in Galaxy Messier 100

Monday, February 27th, 2006 at 05:27 PM

(Click on image for full-size version.)A pair of photos showing Supernova 2006X in M100 (Credit: ESO)Supernova type 1a explosions are formed when a white dwarf star gathers additional mass from a companion star within a binary system…. Our Sun will not form a supernova because our star is not massive enough and we are not in a binary star system (thank goodness!).Astronomers have studied this type of supernova and have found that the amount of light, and the resulting light curve, is very consistent between these types of supernovae.

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Pluto’s new moons confirmed

Thursday, February 23rd, 2006 at 11:19 AM

Well, not that there was much doubt about the true existence of them, but the NASA and Alan Stern’s group have announced that new Hubble Space telescope photographs of Pluto shot last week (February 15) have now confirmed the existence of two additional moons.

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Getting the Phases of the Moon Right

Monday, February 6th, 2006 at 05:29 PM

Now for one of those interesting dilemmas in science, how much accuracy are you willing to work toward. The “Current lunar Phase” sidebar panel was one of those projects that I spent a small amount of time putting together. The image it displays is from the U.S. Naval Observatory and is extremely accurate. [...]

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Super-sizing the 10th Planet again…

Thursday, February 2nd, 2006 at 11:05 AM

There is a general rule in science and that is never trust a single observation.

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We’ve dropped the board…

Wednesday, February 1st, 2006 at 12:44 PM

No one was using it, so we’ve dropped the message board from the website. People can still email us individually if they have questions.

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