Sky and Rockets

A new comet crept up on us this past weekend, one that should be visible for northern hemisphere observers soon.  I'm excited, as my fav...

The Kuiper Belt object (known as 2014 MU69, 4.1 billion miles from Earth) passes in front of a star and winks it out Check out this art...

The Martian surface may be even less hospitable to life than scientists had thought. Ultraviolet (UV) radiation streaming from the...

A satellite may be falling apart in geostationary orbit. On the morning of June 17, the Luxembourg-based satellite operator SES lost control...

Just when I thought I had posted an awesome image of Jupiter from the Juno spacecraft, along comes this video (made up of multiple stills) o...

NASA’s Juno spacecraft was racing away from Jupiter following its seventh close pass of the planet when JunoCam snapped this image on M...

Wow.  This year has really been awful as far as clear skies on moonless nights is concerned.  Hard to get any decent deep space imaging done...

Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Betsy Asher Hall/Gervasio Robles With the first set of science results from the Juno spacecraft,...

Using a technique of creating a synthetic flat from the original subs I was able to reprocess the image of Comet Johnson to bring out more d...

Researchers have proposed a method for detecting exotic events in physics by looking for the scars they leave behind on the fabric of sp...

As promised, here is Comet Johnson from my imaging session on Monday, May 15th.  My light box is still not operating properly so I didn'...