By Paul Scott Anderson, on January 23rd, 2019
Photo showing the impact of a meteorite on the Moon as seen during the lunar eclipse on Jan. 20, 2019. Photo Credit: Jose M. Madiedo
The lunar eclipse last Sunday – the so-called “super wolf blood moon” – was spectacular, with thousands of great images being taken by skywatchers. But some keen-eyed observers also […]
By Paul Scott Anderson, on August 21st, 2015
A total eclipse of the Sun, showing the Sun’s atmosphere, or corona, stretching out into space, which is not normally visible during daylight. Photo Credit: Fred Espenak/NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
Exactly two years from today, on Aug. 21, 2017, a rare total solar eclipse will be seen again in the skies of the […]
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By Paul Scott Anderson, on January 29th, 2015 Artist’s conception of the ring system circling the young giant planet (or brown dwarf) J1407b. Image Credit: Ron Miller
Astronomers today announced yet another mind-boggling finding: a ring system which orbits a distant giant planet has been found to be much larger and more massive than Saturn’s ring system, the best known example in […]
By Amy Teitel, on September 26th, 2012 Curiosity’s progress from Bradbury Landing to Glenelg as of Sol 46 (September 19) – 950 feet down, 656 left to go. Photo Credit: NASA/JPL
NASA’s Curiosity rover is making great strides – or great wheel tracks rather – on its primary mission. The rover, which landed at Bradbury Landing late on August 5, is […]
By Mike Killian, on May 21st, 2012
What appears to be a 747 airliner passing through the crescent eclipsed sun. Photo Credit: Mike Killian / ARES Institute and AmericaSpace
A “Ring of Fire” annular solar eclipse dropped jaws of hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people this past Sunday, wowing people from China and Japan across the Pacific to the […]
By Mike Killian, on May 9th, 2012 An annular solar eclipse on January 4, 2011, as photographed by Japan's Hinode satellite. People located inside the 200-mile wide eclipse track across the western United States can expect to see the same "ring of fire" on May 20, 2012, weather permitting. Photo Credit: Hinode/XRT
It has been nearly two decades since a solar […]
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