Back Alley Astronomy

From Alpha Centauri to the Southern Cross: Image by the European Southern Observatory While writing my recent round-up of exoplane...

Figure 1. Notable stars in the Sun’s back yard, inside a radius of 10 parsecs (32.6 light years). Stars whose names appear in light bl...

The sad news broke this afternoon. By now it's been around the world a few times. The Kepler spacecraft has suffered serious equipment...