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Christopher Crockett

Nine planets orbiting a nearby star

HD 10180 might be nine planets solar system. Slightly larger and brighter than our sun, this star might comfort human visitors with its familiar yellow glow.

Christopher Crockett

April 17, 2012

Galaxies caught in act of capturing star ingredients

The discovery is an important step to understanding how galaxies grow and sustain themselves over timescales as long as the age of the universe.

Christopher Crockett

April 5, 2012

A supernova in M95

Currently supernova SN 2012aw is shining in galaxy M95with the light of 500 million suns and will most likely get much brighter.

Christopher Crockett

March 22, 2012

Citizen scientists uncover a galaxy of bubbles

Since December 2010, over 35,000 citizen scientists have used Zooniverse to uncover thousands of giant gas bubbles in our Milky Way galaxy.

Christopher Crockett

March 12, 2012

Christopher Crockett

Chris Crockett got his Ph.D. in astronomy from UCLA in 2011 and worked at Lowell Observatory and the U.S. Naval Observatory. He then realized he enjoyed talking about astronomy a lot more than actually doing it. After being awarded a Mass Media Fellowship in 2013 by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, he spent a summer writing for Scientific American, then went on to become the staff astronomy writer at Science News from 2014 - 2017. These days, he freelances, focusing on stories about astronomy, planetary science, and physics. His work has appeared in Science News, Scientific American, Smithsonian Magazine, Knowable, Sky & Telescope, and the American Physical Society's online magazine Physics.