Astronomy
What is Saturn Made Of?
The rings around Saturn have captured the imagination of humans for hundreds of years. A natural offshoot of that observation…
What are Saturn’s Rings Made Of?
Saturn is sometimes called the ''Jewel of the Solar System'' because its ring system looks like a crown. The rings…
The Weekend SkyWatcher’s Forecast: June 27-29, 2008
Greetings, fellow SkyWatchers! It's that time again and darker skies are in our favor for this weekend. Are you working…
Reaching for the Ring: M57 by Dietmar Hager
For those of us old enough to remember riding on an old fashioned carousel, there was once a quaint custom…
Twin Spiral Galaxies Dance Together
This incredible image looks like space art, or a trick done with Photoshop, but its an actual image of twin…
Unusual Galaxies Eat Their Neighbors
Seyfert galaxies appear to be normal spiral galaxies, but they have fluctuating bright centers. And now, their deep-down, hidden nature…
Rare Binary Pulsars Provide High Energy Physics Lab
For the first time, a spacecraft has detected signals from both stars of a binary pulsar system in X-rays. XMM-Newton…
NGC 6302 by Don Goldman
Over the weeks we've looked at a lot of curious objects and today is no exception. NGC 6302 is often…
Saturn’s “Dualing” Aurorae
Since it was first photographed by the Hubble telescope several years ago, the mystery of Saturn's aurorae has continued to…
Weekend SkyWatcher’s Forecast: June 20-22, 2008
Greetings, fellow SkyWatchers! As the Moon slowly departs from the early evening scene, we have the chance to start the…