I watched a cosmology lecture given by Leonard Susskind that convinced me to put my money on dark energy being a pressure caused by energy that is evenly distributed throughout the "vacuum" of space.

I'm setting up an observatory and I'm wondering what user-facing software would be best to use in terms of hardware control. There is a German mount, dome, focuser, filter wheel, various switches e…

I am doing some research for a video game and I wanted to store stellar data on a star, such as its Stellar Classification, and then from that derive a physical appearance in the game. These are

I just watch an interesting video about Moonphase watch. mmm… but why do I need to know about moonphase anyway, I just can't think of any practice for the moonphase indicator on the watch?

In the photo we can see the Boomerang Nebula, located in the Centaurus Constellation. It is 5,000 light years away from Earth, and is considered the coldest stellar object that has been discovered in the Universe so far. Boomerang is a preplanetary nebula in which planets will form around a central star over time.

If I understand correctly, red dwarfs consume all of their hydrogen and will eventually shrink into helium white dwarfs, whereas the higher mass stars will consume a fair amount of their hydrogen f…