Tenuous Oxygen Atmosphere Found Around Saturn’s Moon Rhea
[/caption] A few years ago, astronomers thought they found wispy rings around Saturn’s moon Rhea. Although the possibility of rings…
Soyuz and 3 ISS Crewmembers Return Home
The Expedition 25 crew landed safely in Kazakhstan at 11:46 p.m. EST Thursday (Friday 10:46 a.m. Kazakhstan time). The trio…
The Fall and Rise of ‘X’
[/caption] They are at the very edge of current U.S. technological capabilities; one is a supposedly mothballed technology test-bed, the…
J-E-T-S, Jets, Jets, Jets!
[/caption] It seems oddly appropriate to be writing about astrophysical jets on Thanksgiving Day, when the New York football Jets…
Where In The Universe Challenge #126
Here’s this week’s image for the Where In The Universe Challenge, to test your visual knowledge of the cosmos. You…
How Jupiter is Getting Its Belt Back
[/caption] Earlier this year, one of Jupiter’s stripes went missing. The Southern Equatorial Band started to get lighter and paler,…
Cassini Spacecraft Back in Operation
[/caption] Great news: the Cassini spacecraft resumed normal operations today, Nov. 24. NASA says all the science instruments have been…
Shuttle Launch Could Be Delayed Into Next Year
[/caption] While NASA managers have targeted space shuttle Discovery's launch for no earlier than Dec. 17, they also said they…
Symbiotic Variable Star On the Verge of an Eruption?
[/caption] November 23rd, astronomers from the Asiago Novae and Symbiotic Stars collaboration announced recent changes in the symbiotic variable star, AX Persei,…
Longstanding Cepheid Mass Mystery Finally Solved
[/caption] Cepheid variable stars - a class of stars that vary in brightness over time - have long been used…