Caught In The Web… Space Spider!
[/caption] Look, he's crawling up my wall... Black and hairy, very small... Now he's up above my head... Hanging by…
Elliptical Galaxies Don’t Act Their Age…
[/caption] Thanks to images taken with the MegaCam camera mounted on the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT, CNRC/CNRS/University of Hawaii), researchers are…
Forever Blowing Bubbles…
[/caption] Thanks to ESO’s Hidden Treasures 2010 astrophotography competition, Manu Mejias, from Argentina compiled the data to give us a…
Pan-STARRS Discovers two Super Supernovae
[/caption] Supernovae are the brightest phenomenon in the current universe. As massive stars die as supernovae, they briefly outshine the…
Amazing Image: ISS Crew Captures Shuttle Atlantis’ Last Brilliant Trip Through the Atmosphere
[/caption] Simply incredible. Atlantis on its way home taken by the Expedition 28 crew of the space station. Via the…
Guest Post: End of an Era: Space Shuttle Program (1981 – 2011)
[/caption] Editor's Note: Ray Sanders from the "Dear Astronomer" website sent us his observations of the end of the space…
Space Shuttle Era Comes to a Close with Atlantis’ Successful Landing
[/caption] An end to a remarkable era: the landing of Atlantis brings to a close the extraordinary and storied space…
Watch Final Shuttle Landing Live
Live video for mobile from Ustream At this writing, Space shuttle Atlantis’ payload bay doors are closed and everything continues…
Cosmic Crime Alert… LMC Is Swiping Stars!
[/caption] Using the Spitzer Space Telescope, a team of astronomers from the National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO) have made a…
Worried About Comet Elenin? FAQs from Ian Musgrave
[/caption] Astronomer and blogger Ian Musgrave from South Australia has been active in debunking the misinformation and nonsense that is…