(This post has been edited slightly from the original to include the MESSENGER mission to Mercury and to correct a misstatement about galactic black holes.) As the end of calendar year 2011 approaches, I thought my readers might enjoy a look…
Tag: Exoplanets
Astronomy in 2011
Tagged with: black holes, Dawn, Exoplanets, Kepler, Mars, SN 2011fe, space launch system, space shuttle, spaceship two, Vesta
Do Other Worlds Mean Other Life?
Maybe. How’s that for a definitive answer? New planets around stars other than our sun (exoplanets) continue to be discovered almost weekly. If we include the 1200 or so from the last Kepler mission data release (see this earlier post),…
More New Worlds
Over the weekend of February 19th and 20th, I was privileged to attend the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Washington, D.C. This is always one of my favorite scientific meetings, mostly because it…
1200 New Worlds
I have been reading as much as I could get my hands on in the days since NASA’s press conference on February 2nd announcing that over 1200 new exoplanets (planets orbiting stars other than our sun) had been discovered by…
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