The astronomical records of imperial China are some of the most comprehensive archives in the history of science, spanning over two millennia, from 221 BC to 1911 AD, and providing detailed insight ...
How often do stars live alone? For brown dwarfs — objects that straddle the boundary between the most massive planets and the smallest stars — astronomers need to uncover more examples of their ...
The Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager (RHESSI) satellite has completed its second successful year of on-orbit operations as one of NASA’s Sun-Earth Connection missions. Since its ...