First look at NASA’s FY2015 Budget Request
The White House just released its budget request for FY 2015. Looks like NASA will continue supporting its main priorities, but will they sacrifice SOFIA to fund other missions?
Kepler 2.0
The Kepler Space Telescope gets a promising second chance with a new mission called “K2”.
Disk Detective: The Newest Astronomy Citizen Science Project
Finding circumstellar disks in the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer data is a tough job, but fortunately our brains are even better suited to the task than computers! You can help by lending your pattern-recognition skills to Disk Detective, the Zooniverse’s newest citizen science project.
Stargazing Live
A spectacular hit with the British public, has Stargazing Live generated an all time high interest in astronomy?
Astrobites@National Harbor: Thursday at #aas223
Keep up with all the latest happenings in Maryland with us, as we continue to liveblog the 223rd meeting of the American Astronomical Society. Also stay up to the minute with us on Twitter, @astrobites!
Astrobites@National Harbor: Wednesday Afternoon at #aas223
Keep up with all the latest happenings in Maryland with us, as we continue to liveblog the 223rd meeting of the American Astronomical Society. Also stay up to the minute with us on Twitter, @astrobites!