Buy Your Own Space Underwear
[/caption] Remember the "long duration underwear" tested out by Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata on board the ISS last year? Now…
New Results from Stardust Mission Paint Chaotic Picture of Early Solar System
[/caption] One of the most surprising results from the Stardust mission – which returned comet dust samples to Earth in…
Weekend SkyWatcher’s Forecast – February 26-28, 2010
Greetings, fellow SkyWatchers! It's another snowy, moonlit weekend, but that doesn't mean we can't enjoy some astronomy together! It's time…
More Jaw-Droppers from Cassini
[/caption] The Cassini mission keeps churning out the hits, and here's a collection of some of the latest stunning images…
End of an Era: “Lasts” for Shuttle Program
[/caption] Yesterday, NASA's Space Shuttle Program conducted the final test firing of a reusable solid rocket motor, in Utah. Look…
Gravity Formula
The gravity formula that most people remember, or think of, is the equation which captures Newton's law of universal gravitation,…
Ephemerides
[/caption] Ephemerides is the plural form of ephemeris; one ephemeris, two (three, four, …) ephemerides. Why such a strange word?…
What is Space?
First, some simple answers: space is everything in the universe beyond the top of the Earth's atmosphere - the Moon,…
This Week’s astro-ph Preprints: Jean Tate’s Best Pick
It goes by the super-catchy (not!) title "A Catalog of MIPSGAL Disk and Ring Sources". I chose it, over 213…
Ripped to Shreds, Exoplanet Suffers Painful Death
[/caption] WASP-12b, discovered in 2008, is a real outlier among the 400 or so exoplanets discovered to date. Not that…