IIUM ASTRONOMY CLUB

Archive for June, 2009

 

 
 
 
News: This week's astronomy headlines
NASA/JPL-Caltech/Ball
WISE mission assembled and preparing for launch
Among the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer expected finds are hundreds of thousands of asteroids in our solar system’s asteroid belt and hundreds of additional asteroids that come near Earth. Read more.
Cristina Ryan
Red giant star Betelgeuse in the constellation Orion is mysteriously shrinking
Over 15 years Betelgeuse has decreased in size about 15 percent, changing smoothly, but faster as the years progressed. Read more.

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