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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 […]
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 […]
About twenty years ago while I was still teaching classes in astronomy for a local adult and continuing education program, an elderly student of mine gave […]
As the Voyager spacecraft continue their missions onwards into interstellar space, it seems hard to believe that it has already been 30 years since the encounter […]
Now that we are at the end of 2016, I figured it was time to look back over this year’s material on Drew Ex Machina and […]
Discovered in 1781 by German-born British astronomer, William Herschel, Uranus was the first planet in our Solar System to be discovered since ancient times. In the […]
Before the discovery of the first extrasolar planets two decades ago, astronomers expected that the architecture of our Solar System was typical – a more or […]
In recent years it seems that NASA regularly extends the missions of its long-lived planetary spacecraft sometimes far beyond their original primary missions. The armada of […]
Before the discovery of the first extrasolar planets, the only planetary system we could study was our own Solar System. Based on centuries of study, astronomers […]
Most space exploration enthusiasts are familiar with the story of Mariner 4: On July 15, 1965 (Universal Time), Mariner 4 made the first close encounter of […]
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft, currently in the middle of its historic encounter with Pluto and its system of moons, is the culmination of a quarter of […]
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