In this episode, Dave Eicher invites you to observe the annular eclipse that will occur Oct. 2. Annular eclipses occur when the Sun, the Moon, and Earth line up, in that order. But in this case, the ...
Oct. 1, 2024 — Astronomers have discovered an exoplanet orbiting Barnard's star, the closest single star to our Sun. On this newly discovered exoplanet, which has at least half the mass of Venus ...
The findings are published in the journal Nature Astronomy. "This is the first time the east-west asymmetry of any exoplanet has ever been observed as it transits its star, from space," said lead ...