Watch Endeavour’s Final Launch
Space shuttle Endeavour launched on its final flight Monday at 8:56 a.m. EDT. Commander Mark Kelly and his five crewmates…
Endeavour Unveiled for Historic Final Blastoff
[/caption] KENNEDY SPACE CENTER - A humongous crowd numbering perhaps half a million excited people is expected to witness the…
Cyanoacetylene in IC 342
[/caption] Star formation is an incredible process, but also notoriously difficult to trace. The reason is that the main constituent…
Around the World in 84 Days – The Authorized Biography of Skylab Astronaut Jerry Carr
Flying into space requires money, good fortune and desire. Some astronauts relied upon the government for money, had good fortune…
Looking to the Heavens with Endeavour; Launch Pad Photo Special
[/caption] KENNEDY SPACE CENTER - Space Shuttle Endeavour is poised for launch as the countdown clock ticks down to a…
Astronomy Without A Telescope – SLoWPoKES
[/caption] The Sloan Low-mass Wide Pairs of Kinematically Equivalent Stars (SLoWPoKES) catalog was recently announced, containing 1,342 common proper motion…
Stunning Planetary Portraits and Spacescapes
[/caption] We’ve featured many space images here on Universe Today that have been produced by imaging enthusiasts who take raw…
Weekend Observing Challenges – May 13-15, 2011
Greetings, fellow SkyWatchers! I'm sure everyone has been enjoying following the morning planet show, but are you ready for something…
Fast Cars and Hot Rod Astronauts
Corvettes were synonymous with the first US astronauts. Why? The story goes that a Florida car dealer named Jim Rathmann…
Comet Death-Dives into Active Sun
The SOHO spacecraft coronagraph captured a sun-diving comet on May 10th and 11th that met its demise as it plunged…