This report comes in from Terry Moseley of the Irish Astronomical Association (IAA):
Reports are still coming in from all over Ireland about the amazing multiple fireball which travelled over the UK & Ireland on 21 September. The object first became visible over Holland, travelled across the North Sea, across England, across the Irish Sea, and then right across Ireland!…Read the rest of this article
Surprisingly, most amateur astronomers have never seen as asteroid. But this week Asteroid 2 Pallas, the second one discovered, and the second biggest, will make a very close pass to the mag. 3.5 star Iota Ceti (also sometimes known as Deneb Kaitos Shemali, or Deneb Kaitos Al Shamaliyy) on 29 September. Pallas will be magnitude 8.3, so almost 5 … Read the rest of this article
NASA hosted a news conference on September 27, 2012 to present science findings from the Curiosity rover’s mission to Mars’ Gale Crater.
Like photographers assembling a portfolio of best shots, astronomers have assembled a new, improved portrait of mankind’s deepest-ever view of the universe. Called the eXtreme Deep Field, or XDF, the photo was assembled by combining 10 years of NASA Hubble Space Telescope photographs taken of a patch of sky at the center of the original Hubble Ultra Deep Field. The … Read the rest of this article
NASA’s Curiosity rover mission has found evidence a stream once ran vigorously across the area on Mars where the rover is driving. There is earlier evidence for the presence of water on Mars, but this evidence – images of rocks containing ancient streambed gravels — is the first of its kind.
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NASA’s Curiosity rover found evidence for an ancient, flowing …
There’s buzz around the newly-discovered Comet C/2012 S1 (ISON) which is currently out beyond the orbit of Jupiter. It looks like the comet is heading for a very close encounter with the sun next year and could be one of the brightest comets seen in living memory.
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This image shows the newfound comet C/2012 (ISON) as seen by the Remanzacco …
NASA is inviting social media users to apply for credentials for the Oct. 7 launch of the first contracted cargo resupply flight to the International Space Station under NASA’s Commercial Resupply Services contract.
Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Dragon spacecraft as it lifts off from SpaceX’s launch pad in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is targeted to … Read the rest of this article
Astronomers have used NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory to find evidence our Milky Way Galaxy is embedded in an enormous halo of hot gas that extends for hundreds of thousands of light years. The estimated mass of the halo is comparable to the mass of all the stars in the galaxy.
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This artist’s illustration shows an enormous halo of hot gas …
A spectacular fireball crossed the sky over Scotland, Wales and Ireland around 11pm local time on Friday, September 21st. A group of amateur astronomers were at Dunsink Observatory (outside Dublin) and the unexpected appearance of the object wowed those still present for the observing programme. Hundreds of people who saw the spectacle in areas including Sheffield, Manchester, Leeds, Blackpool and … Read the rest of this article
Adam Steltzner doesn’t sound much like an ordinary engineer.
For instance, when we asked him if he would talk about Curiosity—and explain why the Mars rover matters to ordinary people – the former rock-n-roller responded “I’m totally down with that.”
He really is down with it. Steltzner is the NASA engineer who helped take the country’s cool new Curiosity rover … Read the rest of this article
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