September 16, 2024A scrappy little astronomical community is using “Microlensing,” a form of gravitational lensing, to reveal Earth-sized worlds, hidden black holes, and a host of mysterious phenomena in space. Microlensing alignments are short-lived compared to larger lenses that endure far beyond human timescales. Space
September 15, 2024The SLS lifting off for its first launch on November 16, 2022. Photo credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky Space
September 15, 2024The gravitational lensing of the quasar known as RX J1131-1231, located roughly six billion light-years from Earth in the constellation Crater. Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, A. Nierenberg Space
September 15, 2024I pointed my telescope at the Heart Nebula for 23 hours from my driveway to get this image Space
September 15, 2024The Cassini space probe was deliberately disposed of via a controlled fall into Saturn’s atmosphere on September 15, 2017. Cassini-Huygens by the numbers and mosaic photo. Space
September 15, 2024Artwork by James Schultz of the final X-30 configuration with a wide flat “spatula” nose. Courtesy of NASA. Space
