Get Your Free Dione Atlas Here!
Every year my car insurance company provides a free road atlas that helps me get where I need to go.…
Phytoplankton Bloom Erupts in the North Sea
Usually the North Sea conjures up cold and gloomy visions. But as the stunning image above shows, this isn't always…
World’s Strangest Telescope – The IceCube
Since the 1950s and the beginning of the "space race" scientists have wanted to practice astronomy and particle physics using…
What Would You Say to ET?
This past semester at the University of Wyoming, students have been figuring out what humans, if they ever had the…
Spare Telescope Parts Could be Used for Homeland Security
The life of NASA's Compton Gamma Ray Observatory (CGRO) ended in 2000 when the spacecraft's remains splashed down in the…
Closer to the Heart – 47 Tucanae
Those huge, gravitationally bound balls of stars know as globular clusters aren't without a heart. Containing a thick concentration of…
Podcast: Adaptive Optics
Since the dawn of humanity, astronomers have wished to destroy the atmosphere. Oh sure, it's what we breathe and all,…
No Doomsday in 2012
Apparently, the world is going to end on December 21st, 2012. Yes, you read correctly, in some way, shape or…
Wow! Satellite Catches Bright Solar Flare From a Another Star
NASA's Swift satellite picked up one of the brightest solar flares ever seen -- not from our own sun, but…
There’s A lot of Dust Out There in the Universe
The whole point of putting telescopes in orbit is to avoid distortions caused by our murky atmosphere. But now astronomers…