Go For Launch – An Illustrated History of Cape Canaveral
Spaceports rule! These are one end of our tenuous link with outer space. At one time literary sculptors crafted imaginary…
Podcast: More Evidence for the Big Bang
Last week's episode started out with a bang... a Big Bang. This week we continue our discussion into the beginning…
Colliding Spiral Galaxies Captured by Hubble
This Hubble photograph shows two spiral galaxies colliding together. Known as the Antenna Galaxies, aka NGC 4038-4039, these two galaxies…
What’s Up this Week: October 16 – October 22, 2006
Greetings, fellow SkyWatchers! As dark skies return at a sane hour, we'll spend this week checking in on galactic star…
Gas Bubble Photo Wins NRAO Prize
A beautiful photograph taken by Jayanne English and Jeroen Stil has won a $1,000 prize from the National Radio Astronomy…
Astronauts Relocate Soyuz Spacecraft
The crew of Expedition 14 took a short ride outside the station last week when they repositioned a Soyuz capsule…
Mars Express Sees Water’s History on the Red Planet
Most of humanity's Mars-bound fleet of spacecraft is searching the Red Planet for evidence of its watery past. New evidence…
Astrophoto: Swan Song for a Comet
On December 2, 1995, the SOHO (Solar and Heliospheric Observatory) spacecraft was launched aboard an Atlas/Centaur rocket from Cape Canaveral…
String of Pearls in Saturn’s Atmosphere
This Cassini photograph shows a strange line of white dots in a line across the atmosphere in Saturn's northern latitudes.…
New Telescope Will Search for Asteroids and Map Out the Universe
A newly built observatory on Maui is getting ready to release a flood of astronomical data. The 1.8 metre Pan-STARRS…