Lunar Month
[/caption] A lunar month is the amount of time it takes for the Moon to pass through each of its…
Orbit of the Moon
[/caption] The Moon takes about 27.3 days to complete one orbit around the Earth. That's the simple answer to the…
Weekend SkyWatcher’s Forecast – October 24-26, 2008
Greetings, fellow SkyWatchers! It's a dark sky weekend and a great time to get out your binoculars or telescopes and…
We’ve Got A Winner!
Just a quick announcement to let you know the winner of the Celestron 10X50 Binoculars, green laser pointer and red…
Life Will be Hard for Colonists – Kaguya Can’t Find Water on the Moon
[/caption] It's been a long-held belief that the Moon is hiding significant quantities of water ice, safe from the Sun's…
Where Have All the Gamma Ray Bursts Gone?
[/caption] Astronomers are confused. As if gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) weren't mysterious enough, there's something else to add to the bag…
Asteroseismology: Observing Stars Vibrate with CoRoT
[/caption]Observing a stars brightness pulsate may reveal its internal structure say researchers using the Convection Rotation and Planetary Transits (CoRoT)…
Moon Albedo
[/caption] The albedo of the Moon is 0.12. In other words, the Moon reflects back 12% of all the radiation…
Aldrin: Mars Pioneers Should Not Return to Earth
[/caption]Commenting on the strategy for the exploration of Mars, Buzz Aldrin, second man on the Moon and tireless space exploration…
Dark Knight Ahead – B33 by Gordon Haynes
If you live in the northern hemisphere, I'm sure you've very much noticed the daylight hours have become much shorter…