by Susan Keown | Apr 4, 2024 | ScienceWire
In Scientific American, new member Sharmila Kuthunur writes about the frothing, sloshing surface of the red giant star Betelgeuse — the right shoulder of Orion — and new research modeling its unusual, colossal bubbles. She explains how the eruption and subsiding of...
by Susan Keown | Jan 5, 2022 | Uncategorized
In advance of the James Webb Space Telescope’s successful launch at the end of the year, Alexandra Witze (@alexwitze) explained in Nature why astronomers everywhere are champing at the bit to use this new tool, which is more than 100 times more powerful than the...
by Susan Keown | Jul 6, 2021 | ScienceWire
Alexandra Witze (@alexwitze) reports for Nature about turmoil in the historic astronomy department of Lund University in Sweden. Independent investigations found that serial harassment by two senior faculty members caused long-lasting, widespread harm to colleagues....
by Chris Tachibana | Jan 2, 2021 | ScienceWire
Carl Sagan said we’re made of “star stuff” but Mara Johnson-Groh has the details. For Astronomy, Mara reports on how the universe forges elements—from some like hydrogen made billions of years ago in the Big Bang to others for which we can thank our lucky, exploding...
by Chris Tachibana | Mar 3, 2019 | ScienceWire
Seattle Astronomy, from Greg Scheiderer, is a one-stop shop for space and astronomy news, including a blogpost about why “‘Oumuamua” keeps showing up in headlines and social media posts linked to the words “mysteries” and “interstellar.” Greg’s...
