Easter sky over Austin, Texas.
Tag: Space
Some stars could support as many as seven habitable planets
In recent decades, over 4,000 extrasolar planets have been confirmed beyond our Solar System. With so many planets available for study, astronomers have learned a great deal about the types of planets that exist out there and what kind of conditions are prevalent.
Planetary alignment August, 2020
Saturn, Jupiter, and the Moon in the eastern night sky.
Has the Kepler Space Telescope Discovered an Alien Megastructure?
SPACE.COM
By Ian O’Neill, Discovery News 10/15/2015
NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope is tasked with finding small, rocky worlds orbiting distant stars. However, exoplanets aren’t the only thing Kepler can detect — stellar flares, star spots and dusty planetary rings can also pop up in the mission’s observations. See the rest at space.com
Somewhere between the nebulae 