astronomy

The exact epicenter of the once-in-a-generation celestial alignment will pass over the Jiffy Treet parking lot in Ellettsville.

For the first time in over 100 years, Bloomington will be in the direct path of totality for the solar eclipse in 2024.

Known as a blood moon for its dark red hue, the phenomenon won’t occur for another three years.

Jupiter will be closer to Earth this evening than at any point in the next 107 years. Additionally, with a new moon, skies will be darker than usual, meaning even clearer views.

Last week, NASA scientists tweeted out sound made by the black hole at the center of the Perseus galaxy cluster roughly 240 million lightyears away.

“James Webb is a force to be reckoned with," Purdue professor Dan Milisavljevic said.

In 2020 an international team of astonomers made a surprising discovery using the James Clerk Maxwell telescope in Hawai'i. They found evidence that the atmosphere of the planet Venus contains tiny amounts of phsophine gas.

Thiophenes are compounds of carbon, hydrogen, and sulfur. Their molecules contain a ring of four carbon atoms and one sulfur atom. They are found in coal, crude oil, in fossils of microscopic life, and bacterial mats.

Neutron stars can form when a giant star goes supernova. During a supernova, the star’s core collapses, and the remaining protons and electrons get squeezed together so tightly that their nuclei touch.

Today's Moment of Science is about a galaxy called UGC 1382. For a long time, scientists thought it was a fairly small, run-of-the mill galaxy, but then they realized it actually had huge spiral arms.