Book Review: Saturn – A New View
I love large format picture books. Most any subject suffices, as the photographs are like little works of art, each…
Podcast: Variable Stars
Our Sun has been around for billions of years, and will last for billions more. We're lucky, it's pretty stable…
What’s Up this Week: February 5 – February 11, 2007
Monday, February 5 - On this day in 1963, Maarten Schmidt measured the first quasar redshift and in 1974 the…
Spacewalkers Begin Switching Over the Station’s Cooling System
Commander Mike Lopez-Alegria and Flight Engineer Sunita Williams spent nearly 8 hours outside on the International Space Station on Wednesday,…
Hubble Sees An Extrasolar Planet’s Atmosphere
Now here's a feat. The Hubble Space Telescope was able to analyze the atmosphere of a gas giant planet orbiting…
Looking at Jupiter, From Mars
Guess who took this picture of Jupiter? Hubble? Keck? A well equipped amateur here on Earth? Nope, it was taken…
Rocket Detonates on the Sea Launch Platform
A Zenit-3SL rocket carrying a Dutch communications satellite detonated on the Sea Launch platform on Tuesday, completely destroying the rocket,…
Hubble’s Main Camera is Offline, Maybe Permanently
One of the Hubble Space Telescope's main science instruments, the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) has gone offline, and the…
Podcast: Black Hole Questions Answered
Our episode on black holes generated many many questions from listeners. We dip into this bottomless pool of questions and…
What’s Up this Week: January 29 – February 4, 2007
Monday, January 29 - Tonight we will return again to the lunar surface to have a look through binoculars or…