Book Review: The Grand Tour
Tour guides add vibrant, often personal accounts of locales along your travels. They impart much more knowledge than simply standing…
Astrophoto: M45 by Tom Davis
Tom Davis wows us again with this astonishing picture of M45 (aka Pleiades). It was taken using his AP 155…
Afterglow of Supernova Remnant N132D
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope took this beautiful photograph of supernova remnant N132D, located in the Large Magellanic Cloud - a…
What’s in that Dust Cloud?
Astronomers knew something was hiding inside a dark, dusty cloud, but they weren't sure exactly what it was. The Spitzer…
Studying the Health of the Great Barrier Reef from Space
Australian researchers are using ESA's Envisat Earth Observation Satellite to peer down and help judge the health of the Great…
What’s Up This Week – October 3 – October 9, 2005
Greetings, fellow SkyWatchers! We hope that the skies were cooperative for today's annular eclipse. This week we'll explore the "Helix"…
Astrophoto: Annular Eclipse by Christophe Bogaert
Christophe Bogaert captured today's annular eclipse from Beligium. This partial eclipse was taken using an 8" newtonian telescope with a…
10th Planet has a Moon
The newly discovered 10th planet - which the discoverers have dubbed "Xena" - appears to have a moon of its…
Space Tourist and New Crew Arrive at the Space Station
The Soyuz spacecraft carrying the crew of Expedition 12 and space tourist Greg Olsen docked with the International Space Station…
Astrophoto: Mars by Efrain Morales
Efrain Morales took this recent photograph of Mars. He took 750 individual frames of the planet with his telescope in…