Google Founders Buy Fighter Jet… to Help NASA
[/caption]A company owned by Google's founders has just bought a 1982 light attack Dornier Alpha Jet. H211 LLC owns several…
Could Strange Mars Craters be from a Fallen Third Moon?
[/caption]Was there a third Martian moon orbiting the planet? Did Phobos and Deimos have a triplet sibling? According to the…
Full Moon
[/caption] The full moon occurs when the Sun and Moon are located on opposite sides of the Earth. In this…
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)…