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I find it difficult to believe but, it was five years ago today that I posted the first article on my then-new web site, Drew Ex […]
Now that we are at the end of 2018, I figured it was time to look back once again at this year’s material published on Drew […]
Habitable moons have been the spectacular settings for a number of science fiction stories over the decades. For scifi movie enthusiasts of my age, the forest […]
Despite its diminutive size and comparative dimness, Barnard’s Star has played an outsized role in astronomy since its discovery a century ago. Being the second closest […]
Science fiction stories in movies and television set on other worlds frequently present views of spectacular arrangements of moons, looming giant planets and multiple suns of […]
Before the discovery of the first exoplanets, astronomers thought they understood the architecture of planetary systems. Using our own solar system as a guide, it was […]
Without a doubt, NASA’s Kepler mission has been the most prolific discoverer of extrasolar planets to date. It has done this by looking for periodic dips […]
Now that we are at the end of 2017, I figured it was time to look back once again at this year’s material on Drew Ex […]
The year 2017 is certainly proving to be a fertile one for the discovery of potentially habitable exoplanets. Just a year ago there were maybe five […]
The nearby α Centauri system is among the best known among astronomers and the general public alike. Frequently the setting of various science fiction stories over […]
It is difficult to believe that it has already been a year but on August 24, 2016, an international team of astronomers led by Guillem Anglada-Escudé […]
With possibly millions of people in the US looking skyward on August 21, 2017 at the total eclipse of the Sun, a number of satellites caught […]
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