Hello all, hope you had a good Memorial Day weekend.
In case you missed it, the Phoenix Mars Lander landed safely on Mars. While it went down it was photographed by its Orbiter.
To do this justice, sometimes it is better to let someone speak for all of us. Here is Phil Plaitt, the Bad Astronmer explaining […]
Over the next few days, especially on the East Coast, there will be a rare opportunity to view the International Space Station as it flies overhead. The station has the sun reflecting off it such that it will be very visible (Stellar Magnitude -2 to -1) even to the naked eye.
In fact, the naked eye […]
The news is a few hours old now, but NASA has announced that the Chandra X-Ray observatory has discovered the remnants of a supernova that is only 140 years old.
Yes folks, the American Civil War was finished before this star went supernova. Up until this announcement, the most recent supernova had taken place in the […]
If you read a few science articles or chat with some folks who are science lovers and grew up in the 50s and 60s, you might occasionally hear laments about the loss of interesting, fun and potentially lethal chemistry sets yesteryear once had in abundance. Some complain bitterly about the changes while others look back […]
