Three basic principles govern the course we recommend. The first is the “flexible path” approach that the Augustine commission advocated and that President Obama and Congress accepted.
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MANY a youngster, Babbage included, has dreamed of going into space. But becoming an astronaut is a hard slog. Sandy Antunes suggests a less daunting proxy. An astrophysicist and programmer with decades of NASA experience, Dr Antunes is a proponent of pic
Continue reading >>Astronomy can be bittersweet. We’ve recently caught a glimpse of a tiny galaxy, some 54 million light-years away that is in the process of dying. As its life draws to a close, it’s weeping with tears of stars and ultraviolet light, which stream out for hu
Continue reading >>A cloud of hydrogen gas illuminated by the brightest object in the early universe is helping astronomers understand conditions a few hundred million years after the Big Bang.
Continue reading >>In these stunning photographs, astrophotographer Steven Coates captured two early Perseid meteors flash through the skies over Livermore, Maine, on Aug. 5. Since then, the meteor shower has grown in intensity and we are currently in the middle of the Pers
Continue reading >>Not often do I get to talk about two of my favorite, most extreme objects in the Universe in the same story: pulsars and black holes. The recent discovery of a very special pulsar very close to our Galaxy’s supermassive black hole has astronomers, and thi
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