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…
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Stunning New Image of the Andromeda Galaxy
Two ESA observatories have combined forces to show the Andromeda Galaxy in a new light. Herschel sees rings of star formation in this, the most detailed…
Read the article →The Partial Solar Eclipse of January 4, 2011
The animation above illustrates the motion of the shadow of the Moon at five minute intervals. This animation runs in a continuous loop. This graphic, by…
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’s Voyager 1 Sees Solar Wind Decline en Route to Interstellar Space
The 33-year odyssey of NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft has reached a distant point at the edge of our solar system where there is no outward motion…
Read the article →In August an Entire Hemisphere of the Sun Erupted
On August 1, 2010, an entire hemisphere of the sun erupted. Filaments of magnetism snapped and exploded, shock waves raced across the stellar surface, billion-ton clouds…
Read the article →The Geminid Meteor Shower, December 2010
A Geminid fireball explodes over the Mojave Desert in 2009. Credit: Wally Pacholka / AstroPics.com / TWAN. The Geminid meteor shower, which peaks this year on…
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 →Lunar Eclipse 2010: The December Eclipse
A total lunar eclipse will take place on December 21, 2010, the second eclipse of this year. This eclipse happens early in the morning (GMT) and…
Read the article →AAVSO Alert Notice 428: Monitoring Requested of the Peculiar CV FS Aur
AAVSO Alert Notice 427 Monitoring requested of the peculiar CV FS Aur November 30, 2010 Monitoring requested of the peculiar cataclysmic variable FS Aur Dr. Vitaly…
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