Astronomy
Astronomy Without A Telescope – Stellar Archaeology
[/caption] Although, as we look further and deeper into the sky, we are always looking into the past – there…
Weekend SkyWatcher’s Forecast: June 25-27, 2010
Greetings, fellow SkyWatchers! If we can keep the clouds and rain away, this will be an incredible weekend to enjoy…
Radio Observations Provide New Explanation for Hanny’s Voorwerp
[/caption] Is Hanny's Voorwerp the result of a "light echo" of a violent event that happened long ago or perhaps…
Astronomy Without A Telescope – SETI 2.0
[/caption] Fifty years of eerie silence in the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence has prompted some rethinking about what we should…
Weekend SkyWatcher’s Forecast – June 18-20, 2010
Greetings, fellow Stargazers! Have you been enjoying the rain? Then keep your eyes open for a "celestial shower" as meteoritic…
Astronomers Witness Star Birth
[/caption] Astronomers have glimpsed into the birth of a star, and have seen what could be the youngest known star…
Astronomy Cast Ep. 188: The Future of Astronomy
We spent 5 episodes telling the story of astronomy so far, how we got from the work of the Babylonians…
Astronomy Cast Ep. 187: History of Astronomy Part 5; The 20th Century
Many of the modern ideas in astronomy happened in just the 20th century: dark matter, the Big Bang, inflation, quasars,…
Zoom into a New VISTA of the Sculptor Galaxy
The new VISTA telescope at the Paranal Observatory in Chile (the Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy) has captured…
How Many Miles Around the Earth?
Planet Earth has a circumference of roughly 40,075 km, or 24,901 miles. But since it is not perfectly round, this…