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…
Remembering Apollo 11: July 20, 1969
Those of a certain age can remember watching the footage of the Apollo 11 moonwalk live on television: the view…
Zooming in on Proto-Planetary Disks
On the road to planetary formation, the first step is an accretion disk around a proto-star. Such disks, known as…