Astronomy

Reporting From the NorthEast Astronomy Forum

So what's more fun than a barrel of monkeys? Try acres of telescopes and hundreds of amateur astronomers. If you're…

16 years ago

How to Keep Asteroids Away: Tie Them Up

  [/caption]  It may not look like much, but that drawing could save a life someday -- or 7 billion.…

16 years ago

Weekend SkyWatcher’s Forecast – April 17-19, 2009

Greetings, fellow SkyWatchers! Are you ready for a much darker weekend? I'm off to NEAF, but while I'm gone, I…

16 years ago

Researchers Describe ‘Most Spectacular and Most Disturbed’ Galaxy Cluster

It's hot. It's crowded. And it's one of the most raucuous space parties astronomers have ever seen. A research team…

16 years ago

Bridge Between the Stars – NGC 602: Hubble Visualization by Jukka Metsavainio

[/caption] It's been awhile hasn't it? Time may have passed, but absence makes the heart grow fonder. For those of…

16 years ago

Constraining the Orbits of Planet X and Nemesis

[/caption] If Planet X was out there, where would it be? This question posed by an Italian researcher turns out…

16 years ago

Volcanic Ash

[/caption] When volcanoes erupt, they can release large quantities of lava, rocks, hot gasses and volcanic ash. This volcanic ash…

16 years ago

List of Volcanoes

[/caption] There are thousands and thousands of known volcanoes around the world. Many have no names, and most are located…

16 years ago

What are Extinct Volcanoes?

There are three ways to describe a volcano's activity; there can be active, dormant, or extinct volcanoes. Active volcanoes have…

16 years ago

New Documentary “400 Years of the Telescope” Now Airing

A new 60-minute documentary created especially for the International Year of Astronomy is now airing on PBS stations in the…

16 years ago