Book Review: Fred Hoyle’s Universe
Salmon have an heriditary instinct to swim upriver against the stream. The same inate drive pushes some scientists to replace…
TV Alert: NOVA scienceNOW
I know you never watch television any more, but you might want to dust off the box on Tuesday, January…
The North Star is Really Three Stars
Polaris, or the North Star, is one of the most famous stars in the sky. But did you know it's…
Massive Star Cluster Discovered
This beautiful photograph taken by the Spitzer Space Telescope shows a region of space containing one of the largest clusters…
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…