Discover Magazine on MSN23m
Who Was Cecelia Payne and How Did She Change Astronomy?
Gaposchkin, the woman who overcame adversity to discover the meaning of stars.
ZME Science on MSN1d
The most successful space telescope you never heard of just shut down
On Thursday 27 March, the European Space Agency (ESA) sent its last messages to the Gaia Spacecraft. They told Gaia to shut ...
Smithsonian Magazine11d
Astronomers Find Four New Exoplanets Orbiting a Neighboring Star, the ‘White Whale’ of Planet Seekers
More than 60 years after the first debunked discovery of a planet orbiting Barnard’s Star, the closest single-star system to ...
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN13d
A Century Ago, Pioneering Astrophysicist Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin Showed Us What Stars Are Made Of
The trailblazing Harvard scientist, who documented the dominance of hydrogen and helium in stars, is still inspiring ...
Greek Reporter12d
The Ancient Greek Astronomer Who Mapped the Stars
Cleostratus was a truly pioneering Greek astronomer who lived on the small Aegean island of Tenedos in the 6th century BC.