Book Review: Solar System Observer’s Guide
Postage stamp collectors often concentrate on particular types or themes. Amateur astronomers do the same, as a wealth of viewing…
Secrets Revealed in Saturn’s Faintest Rings
New photos of Saturn's E ring shows how it has a similar double-banded structure to Jupiter's ring. Thanks to data…
Astrophoto: The Crescent Nebula by Nicolas Outters
Nothing lasts forever. Even the stars in space have a beginning and an end. The length of time that a…
Sky Shade Could Reveal Planets
Space telescopes designed to observe distant planets need to be powerful, but they also need some method of blocking the…
Discovery Blasts Off
The space shuttle Discovery roared into orbit from Cape Canaveral today, after two days of delays. The first launch in…
What’s Up this Week: July 3 – July 9, 2006
This week we travel across the Moon, probe Jupiter's close approach, see the after effects of a recent supernova, and…
NASA Renames New Exploration Vehicles
NASA announced its new names for the next generation of its human space exploration program, which will return astronauts to…
Four Supernova Remnants by Chandra
These four photographs of supernova remnants in the Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy were taken by the Chandra X-Ray Observatory. The…
Dark Matter Could Be a Galaxy in the Making
European astronomers have discovered a primordial "blob" of dark matter more than 10 billion light-years away. This gigantic object is…
Ozone Recovery is Going Slowly
Although the Earth's ozone layer is on the mend, the recovery is going more slowly than expected. Scientists have developed…