Astronomy News

A special report from the Southern California Astronomy Expo in Oceanside, California, including advice from telescope makers, and conversations with amateur astronomers.

They travel upwards of 10 miles per second and, about 65 million years ago, one of them may have wiped out 75 percent of all life on Earth, including the dinosaurs.2.9

Revised, updated, and still unrivaled. The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary Price: USD $15.95 ... NASA/JPL/Malin Space Science Systems fourth planet in the solar system in order of distance from the Sun and seventh in size and mass.

The Spitzer Space Telescope caught this view of the NGC 4725, an oddly one-armed galaxy.1.3

Welcome, earthlings who dream of the stars. Space Place is celebrating its new and expanded home this week with activities to share the universe with the curious.3.1

"The most likely turn of events is that it will miss us," says Steve Chesley of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., which has monitored the asteroid since December as part of its normal watch ...3.2

Comets look beautiful in the night sky, but for centuries, people were afraid of them.2.7

A cluster of six large thrusters onboard MRO burned August 27 for roughly 15 seconds, placing the ... We had an excellent burn," said Wayne Sidney, MRO mission operations lead for Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Denver, Colorado - the firm that built the spacecraft.2.7

Russian flight controllers have regained control of a small Earth-watching spacecraft that suffered a communications glitch shortly after launching spaceward Friday.2.7

Top scientists' ideas of life in space go on display. Robin McKie reports Sunday August 28, 2005 The Observer They have been the focus of an interstellar search that has absorbed astronomers for more than 50 ...2.7

Towards the later half of the century the wealth of knowledge generated thus far was substantial enough to cause the break down of a hand full of disciplines into multiple sub-disciplines and branches of ...2.7

Summary - In the constellation of Pisces, 100 million light-years from Earth, two galaxies are smashing together in a dramatic demonstration of our far future: when the Milky Way collides with the Andromeda ...1.3

A Malaysian could be walking on the moon by 2020 if the country's current space programme proves to be successful, the country's science and technology minister Jamaludin Jarjis said.2.9

On August 30-August 31, 2005 two space-based and four professional ground-based observatories are scheduled to observe the cataclysmic variable star AE Aqr.3.1

The Large Binocular Telescope will have a new director starting Sept. 1, 2005. SPIE Member Richard Green, currently director of Kitt Peak National Observatory , will move to the Large Binocular Telescope ...4

Take a quick trip to the Andromeda galaxy, it's only a mere 2.5 million light years away ... Event aims to put Pittsburgh on fashion map 2.2.7

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A young Turkish man suspected by the FBI of having corrupted the computer systems of leading banks, technology companies and media organizations worldwide was ordered detained by an Ankara court on suspicion of ...2.9

John Dobson, itinerant telescope inventor, rogue cosmologist, onetime Vedanta Society monk and an unflagging inspiration to amateur astronomers around the world, is 90 years old and on the road again.2

Two Ishi Hills Middle School teachers will be trekking to Egypt next spring to study a monumental solar eclipse amid an international audience.2.7

Last week we highlighted the planet Mars, which will put on a spectacular show this fall.2.7

Astronomy enthusiasts are hoping clouds over Ireland clear tonight and offer them a view of a rare spectacle in the night sky.3.1

Growing up in the city, Dominick Lambiasi rarely saw stars in the night sky - so he created his own.2.7

JB: This is Earth and Sky. Astronomers believe that the most energetic objects known in the universe are AGNs, or "active galactic nuclei." DB: The distant quasars, for example, are a type of AGN.2.9

Between the start of the school year and current astronomical happenings, the Lookout Mountain Observatory is going to be very busy.2.7

More than a century ago, Albert Michelson and Edward Morley discovered something extraordinary.2.7

Moon Will Be In Exact Position This Sept. 15 POSTED: 8:14 am MDT August 24, 2005 UPDATED: 8:53 am MDT August 24, 2005 Scientists have pinpointed the exact moment when Ansel Adams snapped his famous "Autumn ...2.7

Zhang Heng was a famous Chinese scholar and astronomer from the time of China's Han Dynasty.2.9

Summary - On the night of August 4, 2005, legendary amateur astronomer Reverend Robert Evans discovered a supernova just north of galaxy NGC 1559.4

ET Avg. Rating: 4.7 DENVER - An Air Force officer accused of vandalizing bumper stickers supporting President Bush has been reassigned to a non-supervisory position, a military spokesman said Tuesday.2.1

Max Planck Institute of Physics scientists say a gamma-ray burst has been observed simultaneously in the X-ray and very high energy gamma ray bands.2.7

The University of Arizona, unlike many prestigious universities across the country, lacks the "institutional aura" that spurs economic growth in the surrounding community, though the university holds the basic ...2.7

A JPL scientist and his team are preparing to bring to the study of extrasolar planets what George Lucas brought to Star Wars: the prequel.2.7

Slowly, scientists are putting together the emerging bits of knowledge about the spiraling galaxy we call home, the Milky Way.2.7

On the first day of school, Edmund Scientific will give teachers a new catalog instead of a shiny red apple.2.7