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  • Blog Post: On the road: AAS January 2013 meeting — supernovae and dark energy

    Liz Kruesi
    It’s the end of the third full day, and my last, at the American Astronomical Society meeting. In addition to attending press conferences about exploding massive stars and cosmology, I spent time checking out some of the poster presentations and attending science sessions about imaging exoplanets...
    on Thu, Jan 10 2013

  • Blog Post: On the road: January 2012 AAS meeting, Wednesday recap

    Liz Kruesi
    Even though the American Astronomical Society (AAS) meeting still has another day of research presentations and invited talks, today was the last day of press conferences — and the organizers made sure it was a good one. [caption image="/cfs-filesystemfile.ashx/__key/CommunityServer.Blogs...
    on Thu, Jan 12 2012

  • Blog Post: Life as an astroimager

    Michael Bakich
    Anthony Ayiomamitis was trying to image this stunning supernova remnant in Cygnus, CTB 80, which the Hubble Space Telescope captured in 1997. NASA and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) During the past week or so, I’ve received two e-mails from Athens, Greece, astroimager and longtime Astronomy contributor...
    on Tue, Aug 24 2010

  • Blog Post: An amateur astronomer discovers an exploding star

    Michael Bakich
    This 5-minute exposure shows Stuart Parker’s latest supernova discovery in spiral galaxy PGC 17517. Stuart Parker photo New Zealand amateur astronomer Stuart Parker just sent me an e-mail in which he announced his fourth supernova discovery. Parker routinely surveys numerous galaxies as part of a regular...
    on Tue, Oct 20 2009

  • Blog Post: Send us your astronomy questions

    Liz Kruesi
    Perplexed by planets? Confused by cosmology? Baffled by black holes? Then send in your questions to Astronomy magazine at askastro@astronomy.com . If you have an astronomy question about observing, the planets, stars, cosmology, or astronomy history, send it in! Five are selected each month for publication...
    on Wed, Jul 15 2009

  • Blog Post: Are quirky supernovae “quark novae”?

    Francis Reddy
    Three of the most luminous supernovae on record — 2006gy, 2005gj, and 2005ap — pose problems for theorists. For example, 2006gy’s peak luminosity reached 50 billion Suns. That’s 10 times brighter than the average type Ia supernova and 100 times brighter than a representative type II. And 2005ap was 2...
    on Tue, Jun 3 2008
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