By Michael Doig on Thursday, September 15, 2011Filed Under: Asides
NASA Detects Planet Dancing With a Pair of Stars – The first planet, astronomers say, that has been definitely shown to be orbiting two stars at once, circling at a distance of 65 million miles a pair of stars that are themselves circling each other much more closely.
By Michael Doig on Monday, June 14, 2010Filed Under: Asides
Star-forming galaxies like grains of sand – Thousands of galaxies crowd into this Herschel image of the distant Universe. Each dot is an entire galaxy containing billions of stars.
By Michael Doig on Tuesday, November 24, 2009Filed Under: Asides
Simulate Galaxies Merging with Galaxy Zoo – Select galaxies and watch them crash into each other, whirl around and spill their stars into the universe.
By Michael Doig on Thursday, September 17, 2009Filed Under: Asides, Video
Galactic Center of Milky Way Rises over Texas Star Party – One of the most amazing time-lapse videos I have ever seen.