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A Close-knit Solar System
We are becoming accustomed to a steady stream of new planets and solar systems being discovered by one of the many planet hunting projects that are currently in operation. Whilst all are interesting,...
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Faster Than Light Travel: – Fact or Fiction?
All of us have heard, at least in passing, about one or more forms of faster than light (FTL) travel, but is any form even possible? First of all lets look at why travelling faster than light causes...
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Population III Stars – Lighter than First Thought
All stars are born when a cool clump of hydrogen and helium gas condenses under its own gravity. As it does so the central regions of the clump heat up eventually to the millions of Kelvin required for...
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The Burning Heart of the Stars – Part 1
Here at the Young Astronomers we have looked in some detail at stars, the various types that exist as well as their spectra. This short series of posts will deal with what processes occur to power the...
View ArticleThe Star Sailor Podcast: Episode 4 Part One – Voorwerpjes & the Voorwerp
It has certainly been a long while since Hannah and myself produced a podcast episode though we hope to bring you a few episodes over the next couple of weeks. To kick us back off, here is the next...
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Which Came First: Galaxies or Black Holes?
Not too long ago, astronomers figured out that most large galaxies – including our own – have a supermassive black hole (an enormous object which can be billions of times the Sun’s mass) right in its...
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How to Understand Spectra – Part 2
This post is part of the Young Astronomers Databank Project. In the first part of this guide I looked at the basics of spectra with particular focus on black-body spectra. In this section I will take a...
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Image of the Week – A Superb Superbubble – 08/09/2012
NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory (along with optical data provided by the ESO and infra-red data supplied by the Spitzer space telescope) has produced a truly amazing image of the star cluster NGC 1929...
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The Worlds with Two Suns
This post was originally produced as an Object of the Day for the Galaxy Zoo forum. In this post I will be looking at three star systems that share a common theme, they are PSR B1620-26, Kepler-16 and...
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NuSTAR – Focusing On The High-Energy Universe
Nowadays, scientists have the ability to observe the universe across many wavelengths, including those that cannot be seen by unaided human eyes – such as infrared and gamma rays. However, there is...
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