What’s Up This Week – May 2 – May 8, 2005
Greetings, fellow SkyWatchers.This week's early dark skies will promote plenty of deep space action as we view the M51, M94,…
Book Review: Light This Candle
Alan Shepard flew first in the United States' space program and second overall in the space race. A brief 15…
Exoplanet Image Confirmed
Astronomers working with the European Southern Observatory have confirmed the first direct photograph of a planet orbiting another star. The…
Time to Concentrate on Saturn’s Rings
Now that it's completed flybys past several of Saturn's moons, Cassini will spend the next five months analyzing the planet's…
Near Perfect “Einstein Ring” Discovered
Gravitational lensing happens when the gravity of a relatively close galaxy acts as a telescope lens to focus the light…
Robots Will Search for Lunar Water Deposits
Before the first human steps foot on the Moon again, robots will have already done the ground work, searching out…
Mars Express Radar Boom to Be Deployed in May
Mission controllers at the European Space Agency are now planning to deploy the Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionosphere…
Tithonium Chasma on Mars
This image, taken by the European Space Agency's Mars Express spacecraft, shows the Tithonium Chasma region of the Valles Marineris…
Deep Impact Has Its Target in View
NASA's Deep Impact took its first photograph of its cometary target, Comet Temple 1, which it will smash into in…
ESA Astronaut Will Visit Station for Months
European Space Agency astronaut Thomas Reiter from Germany will become the first from the agency to spend several months on…