What’s Up This Week – Jan 24 – Jan 30, 2005
Greetings, fellow Skywatchers! As we start the week off with a "Snow Moon", we'll enjoy its bright features as we…
NASA Will End the Search to Save Hubble
The US government has asked NASA to stop trying rescue Hubble, and instead focus on a way to safely deorbit…
Second Chinese Mission Announced
Chinese space officials have confirmed that their next mission, Shenzhou VI, could launch as early as September 2005. This next…
Did Volcanoes Cause the Great Dying?
Something wiped out most of the life on Earth 250 million years ago. Evidence has been building that it was…
Egg-Shaped Regulus is Spinning Fast
Scientists have known for many years that Regulus spins faster than our own Sun, but astronomers from Georgia State University…
Swift Sees the Birth of a Black Hole
NASA's Swift space observatory has seen its first Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB), probably the birth of a black hole. Swift detected…
Titan is a World Both Familiar and Alien
When Huygens descended through Titans clouds, snapping hundreds of pictures, it revealed a world with many similar physical features to…
Opportunity Finds an Iron Meteorite
NASA's Opportunity Rover has discovered a meteorite on the surface of Mars, near the wreckage of its heat shield. The…
Brown Dwarfs are Heavier Than Previously Thought
Astronomers have used the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT) to watch a small, faint companion as it orbits…
Perspective View of Claritas Fossae
The European Space Agency's Mars Express spacecraft took this image of Claritas Fossae, a series of linear fractures located in…