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The space shuttle Atlantis is scheduled to land tomorrow. What has the crew of STS-135 done during the final shuttle mission? Continue reading
Vesta is a particularly interesting object for learning about the early solar system. It is the second biggest asteroid in the asteroid belt (after Ceres) and is believed to be the sole surviving intact member of a class of objects called planetary embryos. The rest of these embryos either assembled into the planets in the solar system today or were broken apart into smaller asteroids and dust by collisions. By studying Vesta, we can learn about how protoplanets formed and evolved. Continue reading
Growing up, my imagination flew as high as the shuttles. Continue reading
If anyone has yet to see yesterday’s astronomy picture of the day, it’s stunning. (The video has sound too!) http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap110315.html I always find beautiful astronomy pictures inspiring, but this video is especially amazing. I have to remind myself it’s not an animation!
Following the data release, a slew of Kepler papers went up on astro-ph this evening. In my previous post, I went straight to the numbers, but here I’ll discuss the Kepler mission and data in some depth, which I think will generally be useful for understanding current and future Kepler results. Continue reading
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