AAVSO Alert Notice 474 Multiwavelength Campaign on delta Ori (Mintaka) December 14, 2012 An international team of astronomers, including Drs. Tony Moffat (University of Montreal), Michael…
Read the articleTwin lunar-orbiting NASA spacecraft that have allowed scientists to learn more about the internal structure and composition of the moon are being prepared for their controlled…
Read the articleIn 2012, NASA continued to implement America’s ambitious space exploration program, landing the most sophisticated rover on the surface of Mars, carrying out the first-ever commercial…
Read the articleThe international Cassini mission has spotted what appears to be a miniature extraterrestrial version of the Nile River: a river valley on Saturn’s moon Titan that…
Read the articleThis week, NASA’s Goldstone radar is tracking a large asteroid as it passes by Earth, and obtaining unusually clear images of the tumbling space rock. “There…
Read the articleUsing NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers announced Dec. 12 they have seen further back in time than ever before and have uncovered a previously unseen population…
Read the articleIf you’re outdoors after sunset this week, be alert for meteors. Not only is the Geminid meteor shower active as Earth passes through a stream of…
Read the articleUsing computer simulations, scientists from the NASA Astrobiology Institute team at the University of Hawaii are shedding light on a question that has challenged astronomers for…
Read the articleI met Patrick Moore on several occasions – once at a book signing, and the others when I acted as his chauffeur when the astronomy society…
Read the articleEvery year in mid-December, astronomers look up in the sky and witness a mystery. It announces itself with a flurry of shooting stars. For several nights…
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