How is astronomical distance determined? Just cannot get my head around cepheid variables, parallax, etc. How is it possible to tell how far away something is when you cannot bounce a radar beam off ...
One of the stalwart units of astronomy just got a makeover. The International Astronomical Union, the authority on astronomical constants, has voted unanimously to redefine the astronomical unit, the ...
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope spotted a blazing heat from a bright, lonely spiral galaxy called UGC 9391. But even though it lacks a companion, it serves as a guiding light for every astronomer who is ...
One of the stalwart units of astronomy just got a makeover. The International Astronomical Union, the authority on astronomical constants, has voted unanimously to redefine the astronomical unit, the ...