Asteroid Flyby of 1862 Apollo
May 7, 2007: This week, asteroid 1862 Apollo is flying past Earth. Closest approach: 11 million kilometers on May 8th at 1500 UT. Discovered in 1932,…
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The James Webb Telescope
New Technologies for James Webb Space Telescope Approved Early More than a year ahead of schedule, a team of independent experts has approved all ten new…
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Today NASA released stunning new images of Jupiter and its moons taken by the New Horizons spacecraft. Views include a movie of a volcanic eruption on…
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Lightning is more than light and noise: It’s an intense chemical factory that affects both local air quality and global climate. But how big is the…
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This radar map shows the thickness of the south polar layered deposits of Mars (purple represents the thinnest areas and red the thickest). The dark circle…
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NASA’s Orion Spacecraft NASA has established a requirements baseline for the Orion crew exploration vehicle, bringing America’s next human spacecraft a step closer to construction. The…
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The Moon and Sixpence
The human eye’s capability of discerning patterns in detailed scenes or images (where sometimes such patterns do not exist) is well known. A recent personal instance…
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“On Dec. 14, 2006, we observed at least five Geminid meteors hitting the Moon,” reported Bill Cooke of NASA’s Meteoroid Environment Office in Huntsville, AL. Each…
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Below are audio recordings of the lectures for Prof. Richard Pogge’s Autumn 2006 Astronomy 161 class at The Ohio State University. Lecture notes are available on…
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Videos on this page come from a number of sources, but primarily Google and YouTube. This page provides recent videos about the European Southern Observatory.… Read…
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