What’s Up this Week: August 7 – August 13, 2006
Greetings, fellow SkyWatchers! The week begins with the Moon and ends up going globular as we have a look at…
Enceladus Occults Rhea
NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured this photograph of Saturn's moon Rhea emerging from behind another of its moons, Enceladus. At 1,528…
Constant Rain of Space Dust Adds Up
A slow, steady rain of cosmic space dust is always falling through the Earth's atmosphere. These particles from space are…
The Universe Could Be Larger Than Previously Thought
Astronomers recently calculated the distance to the relatively nearby galaxy M33 (aka the Triangulum Galaxy) as being about 15% further…
Proton Launches Eutelsat Satellite
A Proton Breeze M rocket blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on Friday night, carrying the Eutelsat Hot Bird 8…
False Colour View of Hyperion
This view of Saturn's moon Hyperion has been given false colour enhancements to highlight its geologic features. Photographs in ultraviolet,…
SMART-1’s Final Days
After 16 months of successful observations, ESA's SMART-1 is about to make its final contribution to lunar science. On September…
Dark Energy Mission Chosen
A new space telescope concept has been chosen by NASA to help uncover the source of dark energy; the mysterious…
Twin Planemos Discovered
Astronomers have turned up plenty of extrasolar planets, but a newly discovered binary pair of planets is quite the find.…
Brown Dwarf Lived Inside Another Star
ESO's Very Large Telescope has uncovered an interesting stellar pair: a hot white dwarf and a brown dwarf orbiting each…