Galaxy Zoo: Hubble
Apr 23
The Galaxy Zoo project has evolved once again. Galaxy Zoo: Hubble is the new incarnation of the Zooniverse's fantastic citizen science project. The latest Galaxy Zoo project continues to allow the public to help astronomers with real scientific research by getting to to visually classify galaxies online.
Pluto Images Show Changing Surface
Feb 04
New Hubble images of Pluto have revealed that the surface of the dwarf planet changed between 2000 and 2002.
Hubble Brewing
May 07Herschel and Planck will be occupying our attention late next week, but before then, Hubble once again takes centre stage. Servicing mission 4 (SM4) will launch on Monday from Cape Canaveral (2pm EST) this coming Monday (May 11th). The shuttle Atlantis is performing the mission. There will be another shuttle on standby, acting as a lifeboat because the astronauts have no other means of...
Over Twitter Update
Jan 31
I have updated and expanded the collection of ISS- and Hubble-spotting Twitter feeds. You can get the low down on these transit-predicting feeds on my Over Twitter page, which also now features a map showing the list of current feeds and the next expected transit information.
Exoplanets Revealed
Nov 14
A lot of people are already blogging this but here we have it: an optical image of a planet orbiting around another star. The star is Fomalhaut and the planet is excitingly named Fomalhaut b. Name suggestions anyone?
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