Spacecraft Wakes Up for Comet Collision
The Submillimeter Wave Astronomy Satellite (SWAS) has been asleep for the past 11 months, but now it's being woken up…
Podcast: Having a BLAST in the Arctic
If you're an astronomer and you want to escape the Earth's hazy atmosphere, you need a space telescope... right? Not…
Audio: Having a BLAST in the Arctic
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have discovered a massive planetary zone forming around the star system TW Hydrae.…