NASA’s Glory Satellite Fails to Reach Orbit
NASA’s Glory mission launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California Friday at 5:09:45 a.m. EST failed to reach orbit. Telemetry indicated the fairing, the protective…
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ProAm Collaborations Are Changing the Nature of Astronomy and Anybody Can Take Part
Amateur astronomy has a long history of discovery. In fact, it wasn’t so long ago that the amateurs had a better time of it than the…
Read the article →Storms on Saturn and the Sun
Big Storm on Saturn: Did you get a telescope for Christmas? If so, point it at Saturn. A giant storm even brighter than Saturn’s rings is…
Read the article →NASA Discovers Arsenic Based Life Form on Earth (Possibly)
Geomicrobiologist Felisa Wolfe-Simon, collecting lake-bottom sediments in the shallow waters of Mono Lake in California. Wolfe-Simon cultured the arsenic-utilizing organisms from this hypersaline and highly alkaline…
Read the article →Skywatcher 80ED Arrives and Observatory Problems
The Skywatcher 80ED arrived on Friday along with the dual-mount bar for mounting two telescopes side-by-side on a telescope mount. As far as I know this…
Read the article →Asteroid 30558 Jamesoconnor Named for Irish Astronomer
Asteroid 30558 Jamesoconnor By John Flannery, South Dublin Astronomy Society (SDAS) It is with great pleasure that we can officially tell everyone that another Irish amateur…
Read the article →Asteroid 2010 TD54 Flyby
[Update: October 13: Asteroid 2010 TD54 flew within the orbit of the moon on Oct. 11 while astronomers watched to see if the encounter caused any…
Read the article →Irish Amateur Astronomer Discovers First Supernova From Ireland
Taking 290 million years to reach Earth, last month that light from a supernova explosion was spotted by an Irish amateur astronomer in his backyard observatory.…
Read the article →World Space Week 2010
World Space Week is an annual event that’s held from October 4 to October 10. It was established by the United Nations General Assembly to be…
Read the article →Night Sky Observer Transitions to WordPress
After being a traditional (non blog) website since its inception, the Night Sky Observer has transitioned to WordPress. There are a number of reasons for this,…
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