Dan Brandon
Author's posts
Apr 15
Hubble Shatters The Cosmic Record For Most Distant Galaxy By Ethan Siegel
Images credit: (top); NASA, ESA, P. Oesch (Yale University), G. Brammer (STScI), P. van Dokkum (Yale University), and G. Illingworth (University of California, Santa Cruz) (bottom), of the galaxy GN-z11, the most distant and highest-redshifted galaxy ever discovered and spectroscopically confirmed thus far. The farther away you look in the distant universe, the harder …
Mar 12
Gravitational Wave Astronomy Will Be The Next Great Scientific Frontier By Ethan Siegel
Imagine a world very different from our own: permanently shrouded in clouds, where the sky was never seen. Never had anyone see the Sun, the Moon, the stars or planets, until one night, a single bright object shone through. Imagine that you saw not only a bright point of light against a dark backdrop of …
Feb 11
The Closest New Stars To Earth By Ethan Siegel
Image credit: NASA and ESA Hubble Space Telescope. Acknowledgements: Kevin Luhman (Pennsylvania State University), and Judy Schmidt, of the Chamaeleon cloud and a newly-forming star within it—HH 909A—emitting narrow streams of gas from its poles. When you think about the new stars forming in the Milky Way, you probably think of the giant star-forming regions …
