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15 July 2010
Hubble Confirms Comet-like Tail on Vaporizing Planet
Next time you hear someone complaining that it's too hot outside, you can make them feel better by pointing out that at least their planet isn’t so hot it is vaporizing into space. Unless of course you happen to be speaking to someone from the gaseous extrasolar planet HD 209458b. New observations from the Hubble [...]
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25 March 2010
Earth Hour 2010
Where will you be when the lights go out? Earth Hour 2010 will take place on Saturday, March 27 at 8:30 pm local time. Even though it will spark a tirade of controversy just asking folks to turn off their lights for one hour, let's see who would rather fight than turn off a [...]
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25 February 2010
Ripped to Shreds, Exoplanet Suffers Painful Death
WASP-12b, discovered in 2008, is a real outlier among the 400 or so exoplanets discovered to date. Not that it's particularly massive (it's a gas giant, not unlike Jupiter), nor that its homesun (host star) is particularly unusual (it's rather similar to our own Sun), but it orbits very close to its homesun, and is [...]
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15 September 2009
Spot Discovered on Haumea Rich With Organics and Minerals
A dark red area discovered on dwarf planet Haumea appears to be richer in minerals and organic compounds than the surrounding icy surface. Since Haumea is so small and far away, it shows up in telescopes as just a point of light, but the spot was discovered by measuring changes in brightness as it [...]
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21 August 2008
Real Hitchhiker's Guide to the Solar System on the Way
Thinking about trekking across Titan or meandering around Mercury? Along with your backpack and towel, you'll also want to pack one of Robert Gaskell's maps. Gaskell, a senior scientist at the Planetary Science Institute, is working on creating real hitchhiking guides to the various bodies in our solar system. He's been equated to [...]
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14 July 2008
Newest Dwarf Planet (and Plutoid): Makemake
A Kuiper Belt Object discovered three years ago finally has a real name. It's also officially been classified as a dwarf planet, and plutoid as well, by the International Astronomical Union (IAU). Formerly known as 2005 FY9, and also as 136472, (in addition to being unofficially called Easterbunny) the third largest known trans-Neptunian [...]
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