JHU / APL, NASA
|
|
NASA Launches Radiation Belt Space Probes
August 30, 2012 | Two space probes launched toward the Van Allen radiation belts today. They’ll help scientists observe and predict the behavior of ultrafast, and potentially harmful, charged particles. > read more
WISE Detects Blazing Black Holes
August 30, 2012 | Astronomers using data from the WISE all-sky infrared survey have discovered a new class of luminous galaxies in the distant universe. These objects are rare, super-duper bright, and yet totally invisible in visible light. > read more
A Tatooine Family
August 29, 2012 | Astronomers have discovered two exoplanets orbiting two stars, both answering and raising questions about how planets form. > read more
Sky & Telescope diagram
|
Tour September’s Sky by Eye and Ear!
August 31, 2012 | Some of this month’s sky sights are low down along the horizon: Saturn and Mars in the west after sunset, the first-quarter Moon in the south, and Jupiter when it rises around midnight in the east. > read more
What’s a Blue Moon?
July 27, 2006 | Is Friday’s full Moon “blue”? Depends on who you ask, but if someone answers yes, it’s because of a mistake in a 1946 issue of Sky & Telescope. > read more
Babak Tafreshi
|
Science All Around at the IAU
August 31, 2012 | Jay Pasachoff blogs about his experience at the second week of IAU’s General Assembly in Beijing, taking in talks on everything from the age of the universe to the history of sunspots. > read more
Astro-Sightseeing in Inner Mongolia
August 28, 2012 | A break from the IAU’s two-week-long General Assembly provided an opportunity to tour a radio observatory dedicated to solar research — and to find a surprising statue in the city of Ming’antu. > read more
Running Around China and the IAU
August 27, 2012 | Pluto, quasars, and total solar eclipses over Easter Island were just a few of the topics that came up at the close of the first week of the international astronomy conference in Beijing. > read more
Gary Seronik
|
This Week’s Sky at a Glance
August 31, 2012 | The Moon wanes from full and “blue” to last-quarter and late, when it partners with Jupiter and Aldebaran. Vega takes the zenith, and the Teapot is highest in the south. > read more
| SkyWeek Television Show | |
| View SkyWeek as seen on PBS click here to watch this week’s episode
Sponsored by Meade Instruments
|
 Powered by TheSkyX from Software Bisque |
Ann
