What’s Up This Week – Dec 6 – Dec 12, 2004
Greetings fellow sky watchers. This will be an exciting week for both hemispheres! Our own solar system continues to put…
Astronauts Running Low on Food
The 2-man crew onboard the International Space Station are going to be rationing their food carefully between now and the…
Sweeping View of Saturn’s Rings
This sweeping view of Saturn's rings shows the incredible detail and grandeur of the system, from the outer F ring…
Prometheus Disrupting Saturn’s Rings
Cassini took this amazing photograph of Prometheus, one of Saturn's small shepherd moons as it's tugging material away from the…
Mars Was Once Suitable For Life
A series of research papers about past water on Mars have been published in the Journal Science by various scientists…
Greenland Glacier Speeds Up
Scientists have used satellite photographs to track the movements of a relatively fast moving glacier in Greenland, and found that…
Wallpaper: Saturn’s Rings in Black and White
Here's an interesting black and white image of Saturn's rings that I think makes a nice 1024x768 desktop wallpaper. The…
Book Review: Centauri Dreams
Alpha Centauri is the nearest star to our Earth and Sun. Often, science fiction novels extol its ability to nurture…
Would We Mistake Signals from ET?
Researchers from the University of Michigan think that the current programs to search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) might not be…
Dusty Universe is a Mystery
The early Universe was much dustier than astronomers were expecting, according to new data gathered by the Spitzer Space Telescope.…