ESA Astronaut André Kuipers’ Earth Hour Images
Our Earth is itself a fragile ‘spaceship’, but we tend to forget this in our everyday lives. Sometimes distance is required from a subject to appreciate…
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Venus Crosses the Pleiades This Week
This week Venus, the second planet from the sun, will pass directly in front of the Pleiades star cluster. It’s a rare sunset conjunction that’s easy…
Read the article →NASA Administrator Charles Bolden Supports Apollo Engine Recovery by Jeff Bezos
Following the announcement by Jeff Bezos (founder of Amazon) that he had located the Saturn V engines from the Apollo 11 mission in 14,000 feet of…
Read the article →Kepler Expected to Find a “Goldilocks” Planet Within 2 Years
NASA’s Kepler spacecraft is discovering a veritable avalanche of alien worlds. Recent finds include planets with double suns, massive “super-Earths” and “hot Jupiters,” and a miniature…
Read the article →Night Sky Observer Site Migration Finally Finished!
Having to move the Night Sky Observer and its associated sites, like the Telescope Guide to a new webhosting company proved to be more problematical than…
Read the article →Curiosity Rover to Land Near Mount Sharp on Mars in August 2012
One particular mountain on Mars, bigger than Colorado’s grandest, has been beckoning would-be explorers since it was first sighted from orbit in the 1970s. Scientists have…
Read the article →Night Sky Observer Has Moved to a New Webserver
You may have noticed that the Night Sky Observer was offline earlier this week. That’s because the webhost I was with was having capacity problems and…
Read the article →Are Microbes Raining Down on Enceladus?
There’s a tiny moon orbiting beyond Saturn’s rings that’s full of promise, and maybe — just maybe — microbes. In a series of tantalizingly close flybys…
Read the article →Swift Satellite Provides New Insights Into Origins of Type Ia Supernovae
Studies using X-ray and ultraviolet observations from NASA’s Swift satellite provide new insights into the elusive origins of an important class of exploding star called Type…
Read the article →New Surface Features Spotted on Giant Asteroid Vesta by NASA Dawn Spacecraft
NASA’s Dawn spacecraft has revealed unexpected details on the surface of the giant asteroid Vesta. New images and data highlight the diversity of Vesta’s surface and…
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