James Webb Space Telescope Task: Spotting Exo-planet Volcanoes

One new assignment for NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope: Spot erupting volcanoes on rocky worlds orbiting distant stars. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a large, infrared-optimized space telescope, scheduled for launch in 2014. JWST will find the first...

A Grand and Bold Thing – An Extraordinary New Map of the Universe Ushering in a New Era of Discovery

A Grand and Bold Thing – An Extraordinary New Map of the Universe Ushering in a New Era of Discovery by Ann Finkbeiner; Free Press; New York, New York; $27.00 (hard cover); 2010. We’re all getting 3D this, 3D that. But now, turn your attention to the heavens. This...

Search for Dark Matter in the Universe Goes Underground

Β  What does a Canadian mine more than a mile underground have to do with dark matter in the universe? This month, scientists are putting in place a bubble chamber in the Canadian mine – part of the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO) in Ontario, Canada. Scientists...