Evidence of Lakes on Titan
NASA's Cassini spacecraft has found new evidence of hydrocarbon lakes in Titan's northern latitudes. In a new set of images,…
A New View of Quasars
Some of the brightest objects in the Universe are quasars. A mystery for decades, most astronomers now believe quasars are…
Podcast: Inevitable Supernova
Consider the dramatic binary system of RS Ophiuchi. A tiny white dwarf star, about the size of our Earth, is…
What’s Up this Week: July 24 – July 30, 2006
Greetings, fellow SkyWatchers! Welcome to a land of all sight and no sound... A land where shadow meets substance. Welcome…
Earth-Sized Planets Could Be Nearby
Nearly all of the extrasolar planets discovered so far have been huge, Jupiter-sized and above. The question is: could smaller,…
Red Spots Brush Past Each Other
Astronomers have been predicting the meetup for months; Jupiter's Great Red Spot and its newly formed "Red Spot Jr." were…
Planetary Disks Slow Stellar Rotation
New data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope are giving astronomers a sense of how protoplanetary disks might act as a…
A Glimpse at the Future of Our Sun
A team of astronomers recently used Arizona's Infrared-Optical Telescope Array (IOTA) of three linked telescopes to peer 4 billion years…
NASA Assigns STS-122 Crew
NASA today announced the astronaut assignments for the upcoming STS-122 space shuttle mission, tentatively scheduled for October 2007. The commander…
Earthlike Regions on Titan
New radar images of Titan show surprisingly familiar terrain on Saturn's largest moon. The radar images show a strip 4,500…