Clues revealed by the recently sharpened view of the Hubble Space Telescope have allowed astronomers to map the location of invisible "dark matter" in...
Summary - (Dec 13, 2005) NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has found more than 100 new star clusters hidden within the dusty areas of our own Milky Way. The...
Summary - (Dec 14, 2005) JAXA engineers are working hard to recover their ailing Hayabusa spacecraft. The spacecraft has been out of contact since December...
Summary - (Dec 16, 2005) NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory has taken a new photograph of SN 1006; a supernova that appeared in the sky in 1006, and blazed more...
The Moon interferes with December's second meteor shower, although not as badly. The Ursid shower peaks the morning of December 22, when a waning gibbous Moon...
An important factor to consider with a set of binoculars is eye relief. This is the distance between the viewer's eyeball and the eye lens of the binoculars'...
Following the spectacularly successful Galileo mission from 1995 to 2003, the scientific community yearns for a return to Jupiter. The Southwest Research...
White dwarfs are important to theories of both stellar and cosmological evolution. New results published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical...
One of the year's best meteor showers - but ironically one of the least observed - makes its appearance in early January. The Quadrantid meteor shower remains...
Summary - (Dec 20, 2005) NASA is in the final stage of preparations for the launch of its New Horizons spacecraft, destined to lift off for Pluto in January...
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft will give the solar system's ninth planet the up-close-and-personal treatment in January 2006. This first-ever mission to Pluto...
Summary - (Dec 21, 2005) NASA's Grace Earth observation satellite has created the first, comprehensive survey of the entire Greenland ice sheet. The spacecraft...
NASA scientists have observed an explosion on the moon. The blast, equal in energy to about 70 kg of TNT, occurred near the edge of Mare Imbrium (the Sea of...
Dec. 26, 2005 Courtesy Ohio State University Scientists have thought of a new way to solve an astronomical mystery. Their plan relies on a network of amateur...
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Summary - (Dec 27, 2005) A planet forming disk located about 375 light-years from Earth has been found to contain some of the building blocks of life:...
Summary - (Dec 27, 2005) A team of Italian astronomers have discovered that a pulsar racing through the Milky Way has a comet- like trail blazing behind it....
As the winter Sun sets in the southwest, Mars glimmers high in the southeast. You'll find it as a bright, ruddy object west of the Pleiades, or Seven Sisters,...
The Quadrantid meteor shower will put on its best show in the early morning of January 3. Observers who escape city lights and clouds can expect to see 100...
6: First quarter moon 14: Full moon 22: Last quarter moon 29: New moon Planet watch Mercury is in the southeast about an hour before sunrise, but difficult to...
1. Planetary Safaris With spacecraft at or on the way to the moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, a comet, an asteroid, Saturn, and the very edge of the solar system, ...
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Hello Planeteers Once again WelCome to AAC's Forum in the New Year 2006. Europe launches Galileo satellite.A new era in satellite navigation has begun with the...
Don't look, but the Sun is bigger than usual this week. That's because Earth is at perihelion. Earth's orbit is not a perfect circle, it is an ellipse. Our...
Hello Planeteers NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has spotted what may be comet dust sprinkled around the white dwarf star G29-38, which died approximately 500...
NASA's Stardust mission return capsule will land Sunday, Jan. 15, at approximately 2:12 a.m. Pacific time (3:12 a.m. Mountain time) on the Utah Test and...
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