Weather is a one-day event. For all of the analysis of trends, of where clouds or Sun will mark the landscape, anything can happen on any given day. In Texas, the weather prospects for the Great ...

Stars and their planets are born when giant clouds of interstellar gas and dust collapse. You’ve probably seen the resulting stellar nurseries in beautiful astronomical images: colorful nebulae lit by ...

How does a black hole generate a magnetic field and how can it be measured and visualized? Alan Croft Seattle, Washington As black holes feed, they pull material into a disk around them. The material ...

Deep in the heart of our galaxy lies one of the most chaotic and mysterious regions in space. Now, scientists have created the first detailed map of magnetic fields in this turbulent zone, providing ...

Might the universe’s most extreme black holes owe their existence to magnetism? In 2023, gravitational wave detectors LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA recorded an event that defied astrophysical logic: GW231123 ...

THIS is a handy and lucid manual dealing with all the problems that arise in field work with a theodolite, namely, determinations of altitude, latitude, azimuth, time, and longitude. It contains a ...

The study of exoplanets began in 1995, only 30 years ago. Yet today, exoplanet research touches every aspect of ground-based and space-based astronomy and ...