Moscow At Night
[/caption] Tracing a bright star upon the Earth, the lights of Russia's capital city blaze beyond the solar panels of…
Great ISS Sightings – All Nights this Week of April 9
[/caption] Calling all Skywatching and Space Fans ! This is a great week for observing the International Space Station (ISS),…
Shuttle vs. Soyuz
[/caption] Here's an interesting illustration showing the size comparison of a Space Shuttle to a Soyuz vehicle, shared on Twitter…
Satellite Beacon Mission Suggested for Asteroid Apophis
[/caption] According to a Russian news story, a report just released by the Russian Academy of Sciences suggests sending a…
Flying the Space Shuttles to their New Homes
The now-retired space shuttle orbiters will soon be heading to their new museum homes. April 17, 2012 is the current…
Watch Mercury Get Smacked By CMEs
The bright object in the center of this video sequence is the planet Mercury, seen by NASA's STEREO-B spacecraft as…
Navy Scientists Spot New Solar Structures
[/caption] There's something new under the Sun... well, just above the Sun, actually. Scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory have…
Planetary Conjunction Mashup
A Boulder Side of Venus - Conjunctions 2012 from Patrick Cullis on Vimeo. So far, 2012 has brought us a…
Keck Observatory Fires Up MOSFIRE
[/caption] Last week, on April 4, 2012, the W.M. Keck Observatory's brand-new MOSFIRE instrument opened its infrared-sensing eyes to the…
Weekly SkyWatcher’s Forecast: April 9-15, 2012
[/caption]Greetings, fellow SkyWatchers! It's shaping up to be a great week to enjoy astronomy. For both hemispheres, the Virginid Meteor…