Astronomy
Weekend SkyWatcher’s Forecast: July 3-5, 2009
Greetings, fellow SkyWatchers! Are you ready for a Moon-filled weekend? Then let's have a look a some great lunar features…
Happy Fourth of July!
[/caption] Astronomers working with the Subaru Telescope have released these new images of a "fireworks display" in a near-infrared image of…
Perchlorates and Water Make for Potential Habitable Environment on Mars
[/caption] Scientists say that the Arctic region studied by Phoenix lander may be a favorable environment for microbes. Just-right chemistry…
By Gamma-Rays Alone: Fermi Raises the Curtain on 16 New Pulsars
[/caption] For the first time, NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has spotted a new group of pulsars using only their gamma-ray…
Messier 87 Shows Off for Hundreds of Earth-bound Astronomers
[/caption] When the giant radio galaxy Messier 87 (M 87) unleashed a torrent of gamma radiation and radio flux, an…
Astronomers Discover Medium-Sized Class of Black Holes
[/caption] It's the Goldilocks variety of black holes: not too big and not too small. The new source HLX-1, the light…
Your New Guide to the Inner Galaxy
[/caption] All you galactic hitchhikers take note: a new atlas of the inner regions of the Milky Way was released…
Fly Me To The Moon…
"Fly me to the Moon and let me play among the stars... Let me see what life is like on..."…
Mercury and Jupiter
[/caption] Let's compare and contrast the two most different planets in the Solar System, Mercury and Jupiter. Of course, you…
Water on Mercury
[/caption] There's water on Earth, obviously. And large quantities of water ice on Mars and in the outer Solar System.…