David Dickinson
2024 Perseids Light Up the August Sky
That ‘Old Faithful’ of meteor showers the Perseids peaks early next week.
Astro-Challenge: Catching Pluto at Opposition 2024
Why July 2024 is a prime time to see distant Pluto before it fades from view.
The Moon Occults Spica This Weekend For North America
The ‘Great North American Occultation’ sees the Moon blot out Spica Saturday night.
Meeting Mercury at Dusk in July
Mercury puts on one of its best apparitions for 2024 this month.
Existing Telescopes Could Directly Observe ‘ExoEarths…’ with a Few Tweaks
One proposal offers a unique method to directly image ExoEarths, or rocky worlds around nearby stars.
Catching Comet 13P Olbers This Summer
A little known periodic comet graces northern hemisphere summer skies.
The Habitable Worlds Observatory Could See Lunar and Solar ‘Exo-Eclipses’
A future space observatory could use exo-eclipses to tease out exomoon populations.
New Photos Show Jupiter’s Tiny Moon Amalthea
NASA’s Juno spacecraft spies a tiny inner moon of Jupiter, Amalthea.
There Was a Doomed Comet Near the Sun During the Eclipse
A surprise cometary appearance made the April 8th total solar eclipse all the more memorable.
Amazing Amateur Images of April 8th’s Total Solar Eclipse
The last total solar eclipse across the Mexico, the U.S. and Canada for a generation wows observers.