by admin | May 6, 2021 | Events
On Tuesday, May 11th at 7:30pm EDT, the National RASC and CASCA (Canadian Astronomical Society) present the 2021 Helen Sawyer Hogg Prize Lecture by Dr. Andrea Ghez, the 2020 Nobel Prize Winner. This annual lecture, in recognition of the sustained and diverse...
by Frank Tomaras | Oct 24, 2018 | News
The Cat’s Paw Nebula, imaged here by NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope using the MIPS and IRAC instruments, is a star-forming region that lies inside the Milky Way Galaxy. New stars may heat up the surrounding gas, which can expand to form...
by Frank Tomaras | Jun 1, 2015 | News
The system Kepler-444 formed when the Milky Way galaxy was a youthful two billion years old. The planets were detected from the dimming that occurs when they transit the disc of their parent star, as shown in this artist’s conception. Credit: NASA Read more at:...
