What’s Up This Week – September 5 – September 11, 2005
Greetings, fellow Sky Watchers! While the Moon will figure prominently in our studies this week, let's start off with telescopic…
Cassini Scientists Make New Ring Discoveries
Cassini scientists have announced a host of new findings about Saturn's rings, including some new knotted structures in the planet's…
Star Gobbles Up Its Friend
The ESA's Integral space observatory and NASA's Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer spacecraft have found a rapidly spinning pulsar in the…
Pandora Shepherding the Rings
In this photograph taken by Cassini, you can see the faint moon Pandora moving through Saturn's F ring. As a…
Building Life from Star-Stuff
There's a long chain of events that led from the collapse of our local cloud of gas and dust to…
The New Forum is Online
As I mentioned a few days ago, Phil Plait from Bad Astronomy and I have decided to merge our two…
Researchers find clue to start of universe
Station with active crossed dipole. Image credit: Haystack Observatory Click to enlarge If you want to hear a little bit…
Hubble’s Neptune Movies
Photographs of Neptune taken by the Hubble Space Telescope have been assembled into time-lapse movies that show the planet's dynamic…
Giant South African Telescope Online
After 5 years of construction, the Southern African Large Telescope is now online, and has captured its first images -…
Rings from the Unlit Side
This beautiful photograph looks down at Saturn, and partially through its rings from the unlit side. Apart from being a…