SYFY WIRE Explore The LatestMoviesTVGamesComicsInterviewsBad Astronomy All Posts Tagged Bad Astronomy All Good Things… So long, and thanks for all the space. By Phil Plait | 4 months ago The rich get richer: High-mass stars steal planets from smaller stars Simulations show some stars possess purloined planets. By Phil Plait | 4 months ago Astronomers find a torched super-Earth on a ONE DAY orbit around its star We’ve found the last planet in the galaxy you'd want to live on. By Phil Plait | 4 months ago Mea culpa: Planet definitions and Earth clearing its orbit Would Earth still be considered a planet if it were out in Neptune’s orbit? By Phil Plait | 4 months ago Tonight, NASA's DART will slam into an asteroid at 24,000 kph NASA's hoping for a DART bullseye. By Phil Plait | 4 months ago JWST’s Neptune: The best infrared view in 30 years JWST spies on Neptune and sees storms, rings, and moons. By Phil Plait | 4 months ago Happy September equinox! Today the Sun is directly over Earth's equator. By Phil Plait | 4 months ago Whoop whoop whoop! NASA InSight 'hears' an asteroid impact on Mars Four separate impacts detected by the NASA lander. By Phil Plait | 4 months ago Astronomers find the nearest black hole to Earth, and it has a Sun-like companion star At 1,570 light-years away it's three times closer than the previous record holder. By Phil Plait | 4 months ago Astronomers find the death cry of a star in a cluster long ago and not so very far away The oldest planetary nebula ever seen is in the star cluster M37. By Phil Plait | 4 months ago Load More
The rich get richer: High-mass stars steal planets from smaller stars Simulations show some stars possess purloined planets. By Phil Plait | 4 months ago
Astronomers find a torched super-Earth on a ONE DAY orbit around its star We’ve found the last planet in the galaxy you'd want to live on. By Phil Plait | 4 months ago
Mea culpa: Planet definitions and Earth clearing its orbit Would Earth still be considered a planet if it were out in Neptune’s orbit? By Phil Plait | 4 months ago
Tonight, NASA's DART will slam into an asteroid at 24,000 kph NASA's hoping for a DART bullseye. By Phil Plait | 4 months ago
JWST’s Neptune: The best infrared view in 30 years JWST spies on Neptune and sees storms, rings, and moons. By Phil Plait | 4 months ago
Happy September equinox! Today the Sun is directly over Earth's equator. By Phil Plait | 4 months ago
Whoop whoop whoop! NASA InSight 'hears' an asteroid impact on Mars Four separate impacts detected by the NASA lander. By Phil Plait | 4 months ago
Astronomers find the nearest black hole to Earth, and it has a Sun-like companion star At 1,570 light-years away it's three times closer than the previous record holder. By Phil Plait | 4 months ago
Astronomers find the death cry of a star in a cluster long ago and not so very far away The oldest planetary nebula ever seen is in the star cluster M37. By Phil Plait | 4 months ago
