Astronomy
Pale Blue Dot
NASA's Voyager spacecraft pushed further out into space than any other mission before them. Voyager 1 and 2 visited Jupiter…
Astronauts
Astronauts, which are also known as cosmonauts, are trained to serve in space on spacecraft. The term is also often…
Dreamtime Meteor Impact Found with Google Earth
[/caption] Duane Hamacher a PhD student from Australia’s Macquarie University found an ancient meteor impact crater in a remote location…
Distance to the Center of the Earth
[/caption] The average distance to the centre of the Earth is 6,371 km or 3,959 miles. In other words, if…
Distance to Alpha Centauri
Alpha Centauri is the closest known star system to the Solar System. Also known as Rigil Kentaurus, Alpha Centauri is…
How Was Venus Discovered?
[/caption] Venus is one of the planets visible with the unaided eye. In fact, Venus is the brightest object in…
Galactic Building Blocks
The current view of galactic formation is that galaxies form from a "bottom-up" method. In this picture, small dwarf galaxies,…
Wolfram Alpha – A Handy Tool for the Casual Astronomer.
[/caption] We are not quite at that point where you can ask your computer to swing over to the Orion…
Largest Moon of Saturn
The largest moon of Saturn is Titan, measuring 5,150 km across. In fact, Titan is the second largest moon in…
Moon Rotation
The rotation of the Moon is a strange situation. It takes the same amount of time for the Moon to…