What’s Up This Week – Mar 28 – Apr 3, 2005
Greetings, fellow SkyWatchers! This week will bring some excitement as asteroid Pallas flies through the galaxy fields of Virgo and…
Spacewalkers Release Mini-Satellite
The astronauts on board the International Space Station spent a few hours walking around in space today. They installed new…
Survey Finds Dark Accelerators
A team of European astronomers has found some unusual objects in the central part of our galaxy which are emitting…
Libya’s Ubari and Murzuq Sand Seas
This is a satellite photograph of two huge sandy regions in the Fezzan region of Southwest Libya, near the border…
Asteroid Created a Rain of Rock
When a 10-km (6-mile), dinosaur-killing asteroid struck the Earth 65 million years ago, it released so much energy that it…
First Centennial Prizes Announced
NASA announced on Wednesday their first Centennial Prizes, which will reward the development of new technologies for space exploration. The…
Greece Joins the ESA
Officials announced on Tuesday that Greece has formally become the 16th country to join the European Space Agency. The country's…
Dark Energy Survey Will Study 300 Million Galaxies
A new astronomical survey is in the works to help uncover the source of the mysterious dark energy which is…
First Light Seen from an Extrasolar Planet
NASA's Spitzer telescope has detected the light from distant planets for the first time. Until now, extrasolar planets have only…
Super Star Cluster Discovered in Our Own Milky Way
The Milky Way has several star clusters; collections of stars pulling each other into a tight group. But now astronomers…