Southwestern Oregon Community College welcomes guests of all ages for a free lecture “High Altitude Balloons, Microbes, and Bobcats: Finding Your Passions Through the SPEAR (Space Physics Engineering Atmospheric Research) Research Team” by Southwestern Alum Madison Davis. Join us on the evening of Thursday, November 2, 2023, at 6:30 pm in the Umpqua Hall lecture…

Allison Kirkpatrick had just two days to survey parts of the cosmos using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the most powerful space telescope ever created, and its mid-infrared instrument to search for supermassive black holes. Kirkpatrick, an associate professor of physics and astronomy, was the first to explore an area of space called “the…

Steven Tingay, Curtin University When I was a child in the 1970s, seeing a satellite pass overhead in the night sky was a rare event. Now it is commonplace: sit outside for a few minutes after dark, and you can’t miss them. Thousands of satellites have been launched into Earth orbit over the past decade…

Call me chief priestess for the moon goddess,” says Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock when I ask whether she prefers to be known as an astronomer, physicist or space scientist. She is, after all, entitled to all of them because before presenting The Sky at Night on the BBC she trained as a physicist, then an engineer…

The night of October 5-6, 1923, forever changed the way astronomers saw and studied the cosmos. It was believed the Milky Way we see on clear moonless nights was the ‘universe’. Little did they know a simple 45-minute photograph would throw them a curve. It was long suspected a small patch of light located in…

(CNN) — The moon is our planet’s constant celestial companion, only shaded from view about once a month when its orbit takes it between Earth and the sun. Earth’s biggest satellite has long been a source of awe and wonder, inspiring the imaginations of artists and writers for millennia. The moon’s gravitational pull is also the…

<!– –> The museum was inaugurated by Rakesh Sharma, the celebrated 1st Indian astronaut to venture into space. Kolkata: A galaxy of exhibits – from strands of Neil Armstrong’s hair to rocks from the moon and Mars – await enthusiasts at this new “one-of-its-kind” museum of astronomy and space science. The 1,200-artefact-strong repository, which has…