Sky and Rockets

End of an era: the Cassini craft is due to plunge into Saturn on 15 September 2017. Artists’s impression of the Cassini craft around Satu...

3122 Florence is a stony trinary asteroid of the Amor group. It is classified as a near-Earth object (NEO) and potentially hazardous object ...

Here is a sequence image showing the partial phases before and after totality.  Photos from my Canon 70D operating with a Phottix Aion Wirel...

Here is a re-process of the eclipse image set with an emphasis on getting the fine detailed structure of the corona more visible.  The brigh...

Here is my first HDR (High Dynamic Range) image of the eclipse.  This image  was a 9 exposure bracketed run of images ranging from 1/4 sec t...

Well, I finally got to see my first total eclipse of the sun, and WOW ... fantastic.  Words can't describe the images of the sun blacked...

Science Photo/Adobe Stock The promise of cheap energy via the Hydrogen Fuel Cell has just become more of a reality thanks to a serendipi...

Unless you've been completely out of touch with news of any kind you should be aware that there is going to be an eclipse of the sun on ...

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...