Astronomy

The latest near earth object has passed without incident. Asteroid 2012 DA14 made the closest pass ever by an asteroid around 2:25pm E.S.T on February 15, 2013. The earth has manage to dodge another close call. And more interesting, the pass coincides with a meteor collision in Russia. This latest …

With help from NASA, an international team has discovered a new pulsar. Using similar techniques, another team has discovered nine new pulsars. All of this made possible by NASA’s new Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. more… Follow