Weekend SkyWatcher’s Forecast – August 22-24, 2008
[/caption]Greetings, fellow SkyWatchers! Are you ready for a relatively Moon-less weekend? For telescope observers, we'll travel south and capture the…
The Cepheus Flare Lights the Entrance to Wolf’s Cave – Cederblad 201 and van den Bergh 152 by Kent Wood
[/caption] If glancing at this image takes your attention immediately, it should. Not only is it ethereally beautiful and aesthetically…
Podcast: Gravity
[/caption] You seem to like a nice series, so here's a new one Fraser and Pamela have been thinking about.…
Rocket Explodes With NASA Experiments on Board
[/caption] Update: NASA said at a press conference this morning that launch officials were forced to destroy the rocket less…
Ares V Rocket Could Crush Kennedy’s Crawlerway: No Funding to Upgrade
[/caption] There's a big problem with Kennedy Space Center playing host to the Constellation Program: The heavy-lift rocket, Ares V,…
Ride a Maglev Rocket to Space Hotel in 2012
[/caption] The space tourism company Galactic Suite already has 38 reservations made by tourists who, the company says, in 2012…
Sunspot Pair Observed Today – Is Solar Cycle 24 Waking Up?
[/caption] Amateur astronomers have observed the first sunspots to appear on the solar surface for weeks. This period of extreme…
Real Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Solar System on the Way
[/caption] Thinking about trekking across Titan or meandering around Mercury? Along with your backpack and towel, you'll also want to…
Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Changing How Scientists – and the Public – Do Astronomy
Recently we've had articles on Universe Today that have discussed the outer Milky Way Galaxy, dark matter, and the discovery…
Phoenix Lander: The Digging Continues
[/caption] Scientists and engineers from NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander continue with digging operations around the lander with the spacecraft's robotic…