Huygens Landed in Mud
Scientists at the European Space Agency now believe that Huygens landed with a splat when it reached the surface of…
What’s Up This Week – Jan 17 – Jan 23, 2005
Greetings, fellow SkyWatchers! Is it back? Yes. But this time it's Antares and Mars! The Moon will be out in…
Wallpaper: Barred Spiral NGC 1300
Here's a beautiful 1280x1024 desktop wallpaper of barred spiral galaxy NGC 1300 taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. This image…
How Do Large Galaxies Form?
Most large galaxies have the familiar spiral shaped disc surrounding a central bulge. But when and how do these galaxies…
Welcome to Titan
What an incredible day yesterday: the first pictures from the surface of Titan! Now, if you're feeling a little short…
Touchdown! Huygens Lands on Titan
After a seven year journey, the European Space Agency's Huygens probe is now on the surface of Titan. The probe…
Keck View of the Water Fountain Nebula
The powerful W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii took this image of a dying star nicknamed the "Water Fountain Nebula".…
Galaxy Has Leftover Material from the Big Bang
A researcher from Indiana University Bloomington has discovered what could be primordial hydrogen, unchanged since the Big Bang. This hydrogen…
Stellar Incubators in the Trifid Nebula
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has provided a detailed view of a hatchery for new stars in the Trifid Nebula. Obscured…
Cluster Filled with Pulsars
A dense globular cluster near the heart of the Milky Way has been found to contain dozens of rapidly-spinning microsecond…