Carnival of Space #249
[/caption] This week's Carnival of Space is hosted by Bill Dunford at his Riding With Robots on the High Frontier…
Weekly SkyWatcher’s Forecast: May 14-20, 2012
[/caption] Greetings, fellow SkyWatchers! Dark skies mean galactic studies and this is going to be a terrific week for sacrificing…
The End Of Envisat
[/caption] Well, it's official. After ten years of groundbreaking observation of our planet, ESA has declared the end of the…
Big Sunspot; Little Chinese Space Station
[/caption] Astrophotographer extraordinaire Thierry Legault has made a name for himself with his images of spacecraft transiting across the face…
Endeavour Unplugged – Last Picture Show from the Flight Deck of a Living Space Shuttle Orbiter
[/caption] At 9:58 a.m. this morning (Friday May 11), technicians unplugged Space Shuttle Endeavour marking the final power down of…
A New Angle on Titan
Here's a great shot of Titan and Saturn acquired by Cassini on May 6, 2012 just after a pass by…
Engineer Thinks We Could Build a Real Starship Enterprise in 20 Years
[/caption] In Star Trek lore, the first Constitution Class Starship Enterprise will be built by the year 2245. But today,…
By Thor’s Mighty Helmet!
[/caption] Going to see the new Avengers movie this weekend, either for the first or fortieth time? You may not…
From Russia With Love: A Singularly Stunning Image of Earth
[/caption] Unlike most satellite images of Earth, this one was not assembled from multiple swath scans or digitally projected onto…
Asterisms: Signposts in the Sky
[/caption] Humans have been grouping stars into patterns since the beginning of time, each culture placing its own myths and…