If there’s a bright center to the Universe, astronomers have found the planet it’s farthest from. Called Kepler-16b, it’s a Saturn-like world which has the distinction of being the first discovered to orbit both Sun-like stars in a binary system. OK, Star Wars references aside, this is pretty cool.
The magazine Popular Mechanics has a pretty good article up about how to get started in backyard astronomy. I know it’s good, because they interviewed me for it! Actually, it does have some solid advice, like starting off with binoculars, and joining an astronomy club before buying a telescope.
(Iowa State University) Iowa State's Curtis Struck wrote a News & Views commentary -- "Astrophysics: Rough times in the Galactic countryside" -- published in the Sept. 15 issue of the journal Nature. Struck's paper provided context and color to a study that suggests the Milky Way's past may not have been as peaceful as astronomers thought.
(Iowa State University) Iowa State's Curtis Struck wrote a News & Views commentary -- "Astrophysics: Rough times in the Galactic countryside" -- published in the Sept. 15 issue of the journal Nature. Struck's paper provided context and color to a study that suggests the Milky Way's past may not have been as peaceful as astronomers thought.
(Iowa State University) Iowa State's Curtis Struck wrote a News & Views commentary -- "Astrophysics: Rough times in the Galactic countryside" -- published in the Sept. 15 issue of the journal Nature. Struck's paper provided context and color to a study that suggests the Milky Way's past may not have been as peaceful as astronomers thought.
Using the Hubble Space Telescope to probe the distant universe, astronomers have found supermassive black holes growing in surprisingly small galaxies. The findings suggest that central black holes formed at an early stage in galaxy evolution.
Even though a dwarf galaxy clear across the Milky Way looks to be a mouse, it may have once been a bear that slashed through the Milky Way and created the galaxy's spiral arms, writes an University astronomer in a new article.
(Iowa State University) Iowa State's Curtis Struck wrote a News & Views commentary -- "Astrophysics: Rough times in the Galactic countryside" -- published in the Sept. 15 issue of the journal Nature. Struck's paper provided context and color to a study that suggests the Milky Way's past may not have been as peaceful as astronomers thought.
Artist’s impression of the newly discovered exoplanet orbiting orbits th
Iowa State's Curtis Struck wrote a News & Views commentary -- "Astrophysics: Rough times in the Galactic countryside" -- published in the Sept. 15 issue of the journal Nature. Struck's paper provided context and color to a study that suggests the Milky Way's past may not have been as peaceful as astronomers thought.
