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On July 24, 2024, an international team of scientists, headed by Dr. Elisabeth Matthews of the Max Plank Institute for Astronomy, announced that they had used […]
I find it difficult to believe but, it was ten years ago today that I posted the first article on my then-new website, Drew Ex Machina. […]
Now that we are at the end of 2023, it is time to look back at this year’s material published on Drew Ex Machina and see […]
Solar eclipses have fascinated humanity since ancient times and the annular eclipse of October 14, 2023 was no different. Unlike a total solar eclipse where the […]
During a press conference held on January 6, 2020 at the 235th meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) in Honolulu, Emily Gilbert (then a graduate […]
Now that we are at the end of 2022, it is time to look back at this year’s material published on Drew Ex Machina and see […]
A long time ago when I was a budding amateur astronomer, one of the first targets I would observe each evening with my new telescope was […]
Since ancient times, solar eclipses have generated awe as the Moon slowly moves across and blocks the Sun as viewed from the Earth’s surface. This interest […]
Back in the late 1990s, while I was still teaching classes in astronomy for a local adult and continuing education program, an elderly student of mine […]
June 10, 2021 witnessed the first solar eclipse of this calendar year. With the Moon near its farthest point in its orbit from the Earth or […]
Now that we are at the end of 2020, it is time to look back at this year’s material published on Drew Ex Machina and see […]
On September 17, 2020, the Pan-STARRS1 (Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System 1) survey at the Haleakala Observatory in Hawaii detected a slow moving object […]
