Audio: Having a BLAST in the Arctic

19 years ago

If you're an astronomer and you want to escape the Earth's hazy atmosphere, you need a space telescope... right? Not…

What’s Up This Week – June 27 – July 3, 2005

19 years ago

The dance of the planets continues as we watch Mercury, Venus and Saturn shuttle around the twilight sky. Mars and…

Electric Shield for Astronauts on the Moon

19 years ago

Now that NASA has committed itself to returning humans to the Moon, they're looking to overcome one of the major…

Hubble Sees a Jet on Comet Tempel 1

19 years ago

The Hubble Space Telescope was lucky to watch a jet of dust streaming off of Comet Tempel 1; a prelude…

Making the Mirror for the World’s Largest Telescope

19 years ago

Workers at the University of Arizona's Steward Observatory Mirror Lab have begun pre-firing one of the 8.4 metre mirror segments…

Satellite View of Istanbul

19 years ago

This satellite view of Istanbul, taken by the ESA's Envisat satellite, was taken using its Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar (ASAR).…

Cebreros is Ready and Listening

19 years ago

The European Space Agency's new powerful 35-metre radio antenna in Cebreros, Spain came online earlier this month, to assist communications…

Planets Under Construction

19 years ago

Astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have discovered a massive planetary zone forming around the star system TW Hydrae.…

Pan’s Influence on the Rings

19 years ago

NASA's Cassini spacecraft took this photograph of Saturn's moon Pan, embedded in the Encke Gap in Saturn's A ring. In…

Bumpy Dust Makes Molecular Hydrogen

19 years ago

The most common element in the Universe is hydrogen, and much of that is molecular hydrogen, where two atoms are…