Opportunity Discovers Still Another Meteorite! Find It on Google Mars
[/caption] Mackinac on Mars. Credit: NASA/JPL/ colorization by Stuart Atkinson Opportunity must be driving down Meteorite Alley on Mars. The…
Moon Crash Plume Visible to Spacecraft But Not Earth Telescopes
Nine science instruments on board the LCROSS spacecraft captured the entire crash sequence of the Centaur impactor before the spacecraft…
Satellite Finder
[/caption] There are some amazing resources on the Internet that will let you track and find satellites in the sky.…
Hot Crescent Rolls… A Bubble?
[/caption] The Crescent Nebula, also known as NGC 6888, is a very well renown and most intriguing object located in…
Request For Twilight Observations of U Scorpii
Further to AAVSO Alert Notice 367 and Special Notices 127 and 141, the AAVSO requests twilight observations of the recurrent…
Weekend SkyWatcher’s Forecast – October 16-18, 2009
[/caption] Greetings, fellow Stargazers! Were you up early this morning? If so, you were greeted by an awesome scene, much…
Where Could Humans Survive in our Solar System?
[/caption] If humans were forced to vacate Earth, where is the next best place in our solar system for us…
Amazing and Marvelous Mars Dunes
[/caption] I see the Bad Astronomer has beat me to the punch by posting this image before I could. But…
Satellite Map
[/caption] There are thousands of satellites overhead in space right now, and many of them are being used to map…
Spacecraft Detects Mysterious “Ribbon” at Edge of Solar System
[/caption] Since it launched a year ago, the Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) has been monitoring heliosphere and how our Sun…