How the Milky Way Got its Warp
Astronomers have discovered that nearby satellite galaxies, the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, are interacting with local dark matter to…
What’s Up This Week – January 9 – January 15, 2006
Greetings, fellow SkyWatchers! If you're not "seeing double" yet, you will by the end of the week as we explore…
Star Orbiting a Medium Sized Black Hole
Astronomers have found evidence of monstrous black holes at the heart of galaxies with the mass of millions of stars,…
Hazy View of Saturn
This moody image of Saturn was taken by Cassini on December 5, 2005. It was taken using a special combination…
10 Days Until Stardust Returns
NASA's Stardust spacecraft performed its 18th and second-to-last flight maneuver on January 5th, perfecting its aim for Earth. On January…
Charon has no Atmosphere
Astronomers from MIT and Williams College were fortunate enough to be watching Pluto's moon Charon at the moment that it…
When a Meteor Slashed Mars
This image, taken by ESA's Mars Express spacecraft, shows an unusually shaped impact crater Hesperia Planum region of Mars. The…
Superbubble Complex N44
The powerful Gemini telescope produced this amazing photograph of the N44 superbubble complex (also known to astronomers as NGC 1929).…
A Supernova Every 50 Years
A team of European astronomers has calculated the rate that supernovas are exploding in the Milky Way: approximately one goes…
What’s Up 2006 – Download it Free
I'm sure some of you noticed we missed this week's What's Up, and I apologize, my whole family was a…