End of the Shuttle Era: Q & A With Shuttle Launch Director Mike Leinbach
[/caption] CAPE CANAVERAL Fla. – He has been with the shuttle program for the past three decades and has witnessed…
Final Shuttle Voyagers Conduct Countdown Practice at Florida Launch Pad
[/caption] KENNEDY SPACE CENTER - The “Final Four” shuttle astronauts who will ever voyage to Earth orbit aboard a NASA…
Getting Closer: Images, Video of Asteroid 2011 MD
[/caption] Accomplished amateur astronomer and blogger Peter Lake, a.k.a "AstroSwanny" from Australia captured some of the first images of what…
Astronomy Without A Telescope – Backgrounds
[/caption] You’ve probably heard of the cosmic microwave background, but it doesn’t stop there. The as-yet-undetectable cosmic neutrino background is…
Dramatic New NASA Animation Depicts Next Mars Rover in Action
[/caption] NASA’s next Mars rover, the Curiosity Mars Science Laboratory, will soon embark on a quantum leap in humankind’s scientific…
More to Meets the Eye in M33
The spiral galaxy M33 is one of the largest galaxies in our local group. This spiral galaxy is moderately tilted…
Star Forming Density – How Low Can You Go?
[/caption] The general picture of star formation envisions stars emerging in clusters, having condensed from cores of gas under self…
Globular Clusters and the Age-Metallicity Relation
[/caption] Globular Clusters have a story to tell. These dense clumps of thousands of stars are relics of the…
Gale Crater Reported Front-Runner for MSL Landing Site
A 150-kilometer-wide hollow on Mars named Gale Crater has emerged as the front-runner for the potential landing site for the…
A Four Cluster Pile-Up
[/caption] Abell 2744, shown above in a composite of images from the Hubble Space Telescope, the ESO's Very Large Telescope…