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Weekend SkyWatcher’s Forecast: July 2-4, 2010
Greetings, fellow SkyWatchers! Hopefully the rains have passed in your area and you're ready for some dark skies and a…
Weekend SkyWatcher’s Forecast: June 25-27, 2010
Greetings, fellow SkyWatchers! If we can keep the clouds and rain away, this will be an incredible weekend to enjoy…
Occultation Reveals Distant Kuiper Belt Object is Surprisingly Icy Bright
[/caption] How do you study an extremely small planetary body in the dim outer reaches of our solar system? Get…
Weekend SkyWatcher’s Forecast – June 18-20, 2010
Greetings, fellow Stargazers! Have you been enjoying the rain? Then keep your eyes open for a "celestial shower" as meteoritic…
It’s Noctilucent Cloud Season!
[/caption] It's summer (well, OK, technically next week it is summer) but it's the time of year that northern latitudes…
New Worlds to Explore? Kepler Spacecraft Finds 750 Exoplanet Candidates
[/caption] The Kepler spacecraft has found over 750 candidates for extrasolar planets, and that is just from data collected in…
Subaru Telescope Takes Montage of Hayabusa’s Return to Earth
[/caption] The world watched and waited for the Hayabusa spacecraft to make its return to Earth on June 13, 2010…
Weekend SkyWatcher’s Forecast: June 4-6, 2010
Greetings, fellow SkyWatchers! Sorry to be so late, but satellite internet connections and electrical storms don't mix! Even though there's…
Weekend SkyWatcher’s Forecast: May 28-30, 2010
Greetings, fellow SkyWatchers! It's a green "Corn Moon" weekend and time to get out of the house and enjoy the…
Man-Made Object Spotted Orbiting the Sun
[/caption] My dotAstronomy pal Edward Gomez from the Las Cumbres Observatory is reporting that a man-made object has been spotted…