Sky and Rockets

M16 - The Eagle Nebula - July 25 & 27, 2019 WO-GT102 APO (4" f/5.6) refractor and ASI1600mm Pro Camera 42x300 sec Ha subs Su...

NGC 6979 in HOO Well it's been over 5 months since I've been able to image anything - lots of reasons, including the cloudy/rainy...

It has happened a number of times in the past - in fact, 7 recorded impacts since July of 1994.  Texas amateur astronomer Ethan Chappel reco...

Ever since I was a small boy I remember viewing Jupiter with my telescope and marveling at the huge red spot on the planet.  Known as the Gr...

A teen scientist from New York has discovered several distant exoplanets, including a world that orbits two suns (artist’s concept shown)....

A new experiment confirms the existence of “superionic ice,” a bizarre form of water that might comprise the bulk of giant icy planets throu...

The universe is getting bigger every second. The space between galaxies is stretching, like dough rising in the oven. But how fast is the...

(Marc Ward/Shutterstock) Have a compass?  Ever used one?  They point north, right?  Well, sorta ... they point to the geomagnetic north...

A new study by researchers from NASA has verified the accuracy of recent global warming figures. See the complete article at Physics World ...

The first-ever image of a black hole was released Wednesday by a consortium of researchers, s...

Japan’s Hayabusa2 spacecraft has successfully “bombed” asteroid Ryugu in the name of scientific research. The Japan Aerospace Exploration ...