ARCA Space Corporation announced today that it has created ArcaBoard. For the first time in history, every person will be…
Voyager to a Star
The essay that follows is a much expanded version of a brief post that ran here last April, the idea…
“Beyond Apollo” –China’s Chang’e-3 Moon Mission Solves Long-standing Mysteries
The Moon, thought to have been created by the collision of a Mars-sized body with the Earth, began as a…
Rocket Re-entry over Las Vegas
At first people thought this was a meteor breaking up in the skies of Las Vegas Nevada when it was…
Star Colors and Pinyon Pine
Beautiful, luminous decorations on this pinyon pine tree are actually bright stars in the constellation Scorpius and the faint glow…
The Christmas Eve Asteroid 2003 SD220 is Not Nibiru (and will not cause Earthqaukes)
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Stephen’s Quintet
Stephen’s Quintet even more amazing when Herschel and Newton combine with ground based observations. Thanks ESA! Image: ESA/XMM-Newton (X-rays); ESA/Herschel/PACS,…
Blood Moon Over Yellowstone’s Old Faithful Wows Photographer
Photographer Jeffrey Berkes captured this stunning moment as the moon entered full eclipse right when Old Faithful erupted at Yellowstone…
Rare Christmas Full Moon a Cosmic Gift for the Holidays: What to Expect
Christmas imagery and stories frequently feature Santa Claus flying past a luminous full moon, but 2015 will be one of…
Galaxy Grows Monstrous X-Ray Tail
In a galactic cluster far, far away, a galaxy has grown an unprecedented tail of super-heated gases, providing astronomers with…
Telescopically 