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…
Mississippi River Flooding As Seen from the Space Station
[/caption] Big Muddy, as the Mississippi River is known, looks especially big and muddy these days with record flooding occurring…
Endeavour Astronauts Arrive at Cape for May 16 Launch
[/caption] KENNEDY SPACE CENTER - The all veteran crew for the last launch of Space Shuttle Endeavour flew back to…
Magma Ocean Flows Beneath Io’s Surface
[/caption] Proving that old data never dies, scientists have found something new about Jupiter’s moon Io using data gathered during…
Plasma Dancing Off the Sun
The Solar Dynamics Observatory captured some plasma streaming off the Sun, doing a quick dance, and diving back into the…