Nancy is Now on Venus
This was posted on USGS Astrogeology Science Center website yesterday: "The name Nancy has been approved for a crater on…
It’s Noctilucent Cloud Season!
[/caption] It's summer (well, OK, technically next week it is summer) but it's the time of year that northern latitudes…
Astronomers Witness Star Birth
[/caption] Astronomers have glimpsed into the birth of a star, and have seen what could be the youngest known star…
Astronomy Cast Ep. 188: The Future of Astronomy
We spent 5 episodes telling the story of astronomy so far, how we got from the work of the Babylonians…
Astronomy Cast Ep. 187: History of Astronomy Part 5; The 20th Century
Many of the modern ideas in astronomy happened in just the 20th century: dark matter, the Big Bang, inflation, quasars,…
Very Clever! LRO Views Huge Lava Tube Skylight in Mare Ingenii
[/caption] Is this a window into the interior of the Moon, and an entrance to a potential future lunar habitat?…
Zoom into a New VISTA of the Sculptor Galaxy
The new VISTA telescope at the Paranal Observatory in Chile (the Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy) has captured…
How Many Miles Around the Earth?
Planet Earth has a circumference of roughly 40,075 km, or 24,901 miles. But since it is not perfectly round, this…
Where In The Universe #109
Here's this week's Where In The Universe Challenge. You know what to do: take a look at this image and…
Fully Functional Pan-STARRS is now Panning for Stars, Asteroids and Comets
[/caption] There's a new eye on the skies on the lookout for 'killer' asteroids and comets. The first Pan-STARRS (Panoramic…