What’s Up This Week – Mar 7 – 13, 2005
Greetings, fellow SkyWatchers. During the vernal equinox it is possible for most observers to see all 110 Messier Objects in…
Detector Ready to Receive Beam of Neutrinos
Scientists have begun firing a beam of neutrinos through the Earth to a target 735 km (456 miles) away. This…
Dawn Will Show How Different Two Asteroids Can Be
It's called Dawn, and in a little more than a year, this spacecraft will blast off from Florida, bound for…
Rosetta Photographs the Earth on Flyby
The European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft swept past the Earth and Moon on Friday, gaining a gravity speed boost on…
New Kind of Object Discovered?
Radio astronomers have detected a series of powerful radio wave blasts from near the centre of the Milky Way that…
Did Clouds in Space Cause Snowball Earth?
Scientists are fairly certain that the Earth went through a snowball glaciation 600-800 million years ago, when the entire planet…
Sideways Motion of a Galaxy Measured
Imagine you had a telescope powerful enough to watch a snail crawling across the surface of Mars. Divide that speed…
Progress Docks with Station
The 17th Progress cargo ship docked with the International Space Station on Tuesday, delivering a pile of supplies. The ship…
Opportunity Breaks Driving Records
Even though they're well past their warranties, the Mars Exploration Rovers, Spirit and Opportunity are acting remarkably spry. Opportunity has…
Galaxy Headed for a Cosmic Collision
The Hubble Space Telescope has taken a photograph of irregular galaxy NGC 1427A on a death plunge into the Fornax…