Weekend SkyWatcher’s Forecast – November 27-29, 2009
Greetings, fellow SkyWatchers! Are you ready for what's hot and what's not this weekend? Then start by taking a look…
Shuttle Atlantis Returns Home (Video)
Space shuttle Atlantis and its crew of seven astronauts landed safely at Kennedy Space Center Friday morning at 9:44 a.m.…
Fermi Finds Gamma-Ray Microquasar
Fermi's Large Area Telescope has detected bursts of gamma-rays in the binary system Cygnus X-3, which astronomers say are coming…
Comets Posing as Asteroids (or is the the other way around?)
[/caption] Asteroids are rocky bodies which belong between Mars and Jupiter. Comets are icy bodies that belong way out beyond…
Absolutely Amazing Shuttle Ascent Video
This video compilation of the STS-129 ascent is incredible! (and is it now available again after a short hiatus.) It…
Where In The Universe Challenge, Thanksgiving Edition
Here's this week's image for the WITU Challenge, to test your visual knowledge of the cosmos. You know what to…
Yellowstone National Park Volcano
Yellowstone National Park is known for its geysers, but did you know that it is also the site of one…
Kaguya Discovers a Lava Tube on the Moon
[/caption] Future lunar astronauts may want to brush up on their spelunking skills: the first lava tube has been discovered…
Jupiter – Our Silent Guardian?
[/caption] We live in a cosmic shooting gallery. In Phil Plait's Death From the Skies, he lays out the dangers…
Astronomers Dig Up Relic of the Milky Way’s Central Bulge
[/caption] Like archaeologists who dig through the layers of dirt to unearth crucial pieces of the history of mankind, astronomers…