Just don’t call her four-eyes. The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS to her friends) begins collecting data this month. Launched in April, she is equipped with four telescopes, two solar panels, and one mission...
Stephen Hawking was one of the brightest stars in the scientific firmament, but no star can burn forever. Sadly, The British cosmologist, who once held the same faculty chair as Sir Isaac Newton, passed...
On January 31st, at around 7 am in Ontario, there was a partial lunar eclipse happening behind the snow clouds. Sadly, for all of us living in Ontario, we didn’t get to see the...
Now that we all know the word, get ready to celebrate another sesquicentennial. On Saturday, January 27th, 2018 the Royal Astronomy Society of Canada (RASC) is kicking off a year of celebrations. I happen to...
Jupiter’s great red spot is shrinking! Could it disappear completely? The great red spot is Jupiter’s most iconic feature: a storm once three times the size of Earth, visible in a backyard telescope, with...
What a spectacular view!! On Monday, August 21st, 2017, we held a solar eclipse viewing party at Science North. We were lucky here in Sudbury to have had clear weather and a great view...
On Monday, August 21st, 2017, people from North America will be able to witness a celestial marvel, known as a solar eclipse. This is when the Moon passes in between the Earth and the...
The forecast this weekend calls for thundershowers, which is very unfortunate, because it will cloud out one of the year’s astronomical highlights: the Perseid meteor shower. A meteor shower is a night (or...
Here is what we know: NASA announced on Wednesday the discovery of not one, not two, but SEVEN earth-sized exoplanets orbiting a small star within our galaxy. (An exoplanet is any planet outside of...
Some things happen every year, like celestial clockwork — the slow shifting of the constellations, regularly-scheduled meteor showers, and the phases of the moon. Those can be interesting enough, but it’s the rarer events...
