COD Astronomy Club

12/07/2018

https://mars.nasa.gov/insight/

Our last meeting for the semester, with one last bit of space news. Good luck on finals everyone!

The InSight lander will study the interior of Mars and listen for Marsquakes.

11/17/2018

Group photo from our clubs trip to Fermi Lab. We went several hundred feet underground and got to see some of the interesting stuff they're working on.

11/09/2018

https://www.universetoday.com/140343/being-cassini-experience-what-it-was-like-to-fly-past-jupiter-and-saturn-and-their-moons/

A glimpse at what the view might've been to fly alongside Jupiter and Saturn.

A very cool video from NASA's Kevin Gill shows us what it would be like to be onboard Cassini as it made its way around Jupiter and Saturn.

10/12/2018

https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/10/stephen-hawkings-final-paper-published-tackles-famous-paradox/

This week's discussion centered around some of Steven Hawking's theories. Enjoy your weekends everyone!

Black holes might have “soft hair,” the better to store information.

10/05/2018

http://earthsky.org/space/1st-exomoon-neptune-sized-kepler-1625b-hubble

This week in space news! This part of our discussion focused on the discovery of a rather large moon/ dwarf planet orbiting Kepler-1625b, as the terminology for it is still unclear.

Astronomers have tantalizing new evidence for a possible Neptune-sized moon orbiting the gas-giant planet Kepler-1625b, some 8,000 light-years away.

09/28/2018

http://www.planetary.org/blogs/jason-davis/minerva-ii1-successful-landing.html

"The first-ever rovers to be deployed on an asteroid", were part of the Space News Discussion for this week.

The two small spacecraft are the size and shape of cheese wheels, and can autonomously hop around the surface.

09/27/2018

Thanks to everyone who showed up and supported our club today. Although it may be hard to tell from the pictures, we were really happy with the turn out we got!

09/21/2018

https://www.universetoday.com/139891/europan-space-whales-anyone-planets-covered-by-deep-oceans-can-still-have-life-on-them/

One of the several weekly topics our club has on space news. Join in on the discussion with us every Friday!

According to a new study by a pair of researchers, planets covered in deep oceans (aka. "water worlds") may be more habitable than previously thought.

09/19/2018

The first stages of our clubs goal to set up a model of our solar system scattered throughout our campus. Scaled down of course.

09/16/2018

After a small uphill hike at the Greene Valley Forest Preserve, our club, alongside fellow classmates and visitors, enjoyed our first night stargazing!

11/19/2016

09/23/2016

http://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/hubble-finds-planet-orbiting-pair-of-stars
Check this out!

Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, and a trick of nature, have confirmed the existence of a planet orbiting two stars in a system 8,000 light-years away toward the center of our galaxy. The Saturn-sized planet orbits roughly 300 million miles from the stellar duo, about the distance fr...