A Simulation of the Whole Universe
An international team of researchers have developed a computer program that simulates the growth and expansion of the Universe after…
Quasar Image Revises Theories About Their Jets
Researchers using the National Science Foundation's Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) radio telescope found something unusual about the jet of…
Amalthea is Just a Pile of Icy Rubble
By studying data gathered by NASA's Galileo spacecraft, researchers have come to the conclusion that Amalthea, one of Jupiter's moons,…
Ancient Floods on Mars
The European Space Agency's Mars Express spacecraft took this image of an ancient outflow channel in the Ares Vallis region…
Measuring the Shape of Stars
The faster a star spins, the more it flattens out, changing from a sphere to something more egg-shaped. Since stars…
Soyuz Launches Foton-M Spacecraft
An unmanned Foton-M spacecraft was launched today on board a Russian Soyuz-U from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. This is a special…
What’s Up This Week – May 30 – June 5, 2005
Greetings fellow Skywatchers! With early dark skies this week, now would be a great opportunity to work on some serious…
Book Review: Four Astronomy Books for Kids
Sharing a passion just makes it sweeter. Getting cosy together under the stars, exploring constellations, going, 'ohh' when a meteor…
Monstrous Stars Spawn a Community of Smaller Stars
A new image taken by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows how a few monstrous stars in a stellar nebula can…
Andromeda is Three Times Larger Than Previously Believed
Astronomers from the US and France have mapped out the motion of a stars in the outskirts of the Andromeda…