r/FoS • u/[deleted] • Aug 28 '10
Roll Call: 200+ readers! :-) But I wonder how many are actually active...? Upvote if you're here any time between now and when this post falls off the front page.
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r/FoS • u/[deleted] • Aug 24 '10
...evidence that two other planets may be present, one of which would have the lowest mass ever found. This would make the system similar to our Solar System in terms of the number of planets [and] the distances of the [7] planets from their [sun-like] star follow[ing] a regular pattern...
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r/FoS • u/[deleted] • Aug 04 '10
Endpoint of overfishing is now in sight:... "Honestly, to me this reads like a tale of biblical waste. Not only are species locally extinct, but now people are tearing up the seafloor too."
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r/FoS • u/[deleted] • Aug 18 '10
"If the Sun were located at the heart of this remarkable cluster, our night sky would be full of hundreds of stars as bright as the full Moon,..."
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r/FoS • u/[deleted] • Jul 09 '10
Then, after sending Seed requests for payment, I received an email from my editor ... explaining that they wouldn't be publishing the Bhopal piece because it was critical of Dow Chemical, ..., and that Seed was seeking an advertising contract with Dow.
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r/FoS • u/[deleted] • Mar 25 '10
TED: Craters full of ice, traces of ancient oceans, and compelling hints at the presence, sometime in the past, of life. Joel Le makes the case for going back to Mars to find out more.
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r/FoS • u/[deleted] • Sep 07 '10
Björn Jónsson's homepage: Planetary maps, space renderings and POV-Ray stuff
mmedia.is
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r/FoS • u/[deleted] • Aug 04 '10
Seen in 1987, it was the first naked-eye supernova to be observed for 383 years...
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r/FoS • u/[deleted] • Jul 28 '10
WR 22 is one of many exceptionally brilliant stars associated with the beautiful Carina Nebula ... and the outer part of this huge region of star formation in the southern Milky Way forms the colourful backdrop to this image.
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r/FoS • u/[deleted] • Jul 22 '10
Most of the roughly 16 known hypervelocity stars, all discovered since 2005, are thought to be exiles from the heart of our galaxy. But this Hubble result is the first direct observation linking a high-flying star to a galactic center origin.
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r/FoS • u/[deleted] • Jul 21 '10
Dimitar Sasselov: How we found hundreds of Earth-like planets
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r/FoS • u/[deleted] • Jul 06 '10
Kepler is now proven to produce data of sufficient detail to detect exomoons below Earth mass...
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r/FoS • u/[deleted] • Sep 16 '10
The moon was bombarded by two distinct populations of asteroids or comets in its youth, and its surface is more complex than previously thought...
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r/FoS • u/[deleted] • Sep 15 '10
Finally, we mustn't forget the moons of Jupiter because they are also having a close encounter with Earth. These are planet-sized worlds with active volcanoes (Io), possible underground oceans (Europa), vast fields of craters (Callisto), and mysterious global grooves (Ganymede).
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r/FoS • u/[deleted] • Aug 30 '10
"We are at a point where not only can we directly image planets around other stars, but we can begin to study the properties of their atmospheres in detail. Direct spectroscopy of exoplanets is the future of this field...”
keckobservatory.org
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r/FoS • u/[deleted] • Aug 23 '10
NASA will hold a media teleconference Thursday, Aug. 26, at 1 p.m. EDT to discuss the Kepler spacecraft's latest discovery about an intriguing planetary system.
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r/FoS • u/[deleted] • Aug 12 '10
“We estimate that the new Neptune Trojan has a diameter of about 100 kilometers and that there are about 150 Neptune Trojans of similar size at L5,” ... “It matches the population estimates for the L4 Neptune stability region.
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r/FoS • u/[deleted] • Aug 10 '10
Spiral Galaxy NGC 4911 in the Coma Cluster
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r/FoS • u/[deleted] • Jul 27 '10
...a complex of dark, dense clouds of dust and gas, difficult to detect with telescopes that see only visible light. The complex is called the Vela Molecular Cloud Ridge.
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r/FoS • u/[deleted] • Jul 19 '10
A Farewell to Scienceblogs: the Changing Science Blogging Ecosystem
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r/FoS • u/[deleted] • Jul 15 '10
Hubble Space Telescope astronomers have now confirmed the existence of a tortured, baked object that could be called a "cometary planet."
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r/FoS • u/[deleted] • Jul 13 '10
A small change to the theory of gravity implies that our universe inherited its arrow of time from the black hole in which it was born.
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r/FoS • u/[deleted] • Sep 21 '10
A season on Titan lasts about seven Earth years.
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