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Growing up in the late 1960s and 1970s, I was an avid viewer of science fiction on television. Naturally, the programs I watched included the classic […]
For Star Trek fans like myself, the mention of the nearby star, Wolf 359, instantly brings to mind the “Battle of Wolf 359”. Originally seen in […]
The year 2019 is proving to be a fruitful one for the discovery of exoplanets orbiting nearby stars especially our smallest neighbors, red dwarfs. On August […]
As engineers and space travel enthusiasts continue to make progress tackling the problems associated with interstellar travel, astronomers around the globe have been busy searching for […]
While the flood of exoplanetary discoveries from NASA’s Kepler program has dominated headlines in recent years, there are a host of lesser known programs which have […]
Usually NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope (HST) is associated with making observations of incredibly dim objects frequently hundreds of millions or even billions of light years away. […]
Before the flood of discoveries resulting from NASA’s Kepler mission, the majority of extrasolar planets were found by analyzing precision radial velocity measurements of stars. Periodic […]
The small red dwarf star Proxima Centauri has been in the news quite a bit because of the discovery of an Earth-size planet, designated Proxima Centauri […]
When I was a teenager, I was a voracious reader of the work of the famous science fiction writer, Isaac Asimov. But it was not his […]
