The Hubble survey, taken with Hubble's Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS), provides strong statistics pointing to the fact that brown dwarfs do not exist around even the least massive stars.
CINCINNATI (AP) - The Cincinnati Observatory, which bills itself as the nation's oldest observatory, is helping kick off 2009 as the International Year of Astronomy.
Honey, I blew up the galaxy.
Well, not exactly. It appears that the Milky Way Galaxy has always been larger than we originally thought. We're also moving faster and unfortunately more...
Our friend, Paul Sutherland, of Skymania News, has posted a most interesting article about English explorer, navigational expert, mathematician, scientist and astronomer, Thomas Harriot, who was born in Oxford about...