October 2021

The Southwestern Oregon Community College Physics and Astronomy Lecture Series welcomes Raymond Frey from…

Last Thursday (October 28) the sun's surface reached A series of X-ray bursts, including the most powerful of this solar cycle, Class X1.0As the plasma cloud began to rush towards Earth.According to NASA, the solar wind is full of…

Monday November 1The American Association of Variable Star Observers is an amateur organization dedicated to observing celestial objects whose brightness changes over time. This year, they highlight a different star each month, and that of…

Astronomy fans: YOU are invited to a free conference on "The search for life in the universe" Phoenix, AZ - The Phoenix Astronomical Society PASAZ.ORG is proud to announce that Dr. Klaus Brasch will be!--StartM-->…

Imagine Jupiter and its small asteroids as a cosmic Halloween setting on the front porch of the solar system. The planet itself - swirling, stormy, the largest in the solar system - is the pumpkin, while the tiny asteroids accompanying it…

As in any family, there are always a few quirky parents who somehow just don't fit in or, for some reason, parade to the beat of a different drum. This is also the case with our solar system family members; while…

Comet 29P / Schwassmann-Wachmann is perhaps one of the most exotic objects in our solar system, exploding again and again with what is called "cryomax" as it travels through space.…

It is estimated that 300 billion stars make up the Milky Way and each may have one or more exoplanets orbiting. For thousands of years, the night sky was just a splash of random dots. Over time, constellations have formed by…

Astronomers have indirectly observed tons of planets outside of our solar system, aka exoplanets, in the past. Including terrestrial ones that seem very habitable, those that orbit binary stars like Tatooine does, and those that ooze lava.…

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