Astronomy News and Coming Events

Seeing The Atmosphere and Observing - 196kb An examination of the effects of optical aberrations, obstruction and seeing on real Planetary images - 397kb

Earth Plasma Bullets Spark Northern Lights - 76kb The Tunguska Event - 100 Years Later - 100kb Spring is Aurora Season - 89kb Auroras in Broad Daylight - 65kb NASA Spacecraft Make New Discoveries about Northern Lights - 112kb Global Warming Good News: No More Ice Ages - 108kb Mice can smell greenhouse gas - 50kb Talc softens earthquake chafing - 54kb Feds: Storing Carbon Dioxide Underground Can Work - 62kb Plan to Dump Iron in Ocean Criticized - 62kb Has a Tunguska Crater Been Found? - 42kb Expedition Seeks Primordial Life Beneath the Arctic - 41kb Source of Major Earthquakes Discovered Beneath U.S. Heartland - 44kb Coral Reef Devastation Linked to Global Warming - 36kb The World Rots Faster as Global Warming Fuels Fungi - 44kb Volcanoes Triggered Ancient Warming Event - 36kb Carbon dioxide level highest in 650,000 years - 166kb CO2 Highest for 650,000 Years - 59kb Timeline: The Frightening Future of Earth - 55kb Oil Production Could Peak Next Year - 42kb Earth's "Other Moon" - 123kb Seas Could Rise Dramatically in Rapid Ice Melt - 56kb Charge: Carbon Dioxide Hogs Global Warming Stage - 58kb Earth's Inner Temperature Taken: It's Hot! - 47kb Crusty Old Discovery Reveals Early Earth's History - 47kb Slow Slippage Could Predict Huge Earthquakes - 47kb Surprising Activity Discovered at Yellowstone Supervolcano - 91kb Surprising New Arctic Inhabitants: Trees - 66kb Sun Blamed for Warming of Earth and Other Worlds - 69kb Old Data Supports Global Warming Link to Stronger Hurricanes - 45kb Mission to Study Earth's Gaping 'Open Wound' - 134kb Huge 'Ocean' Discovered Inside Earth - 93kb 90 International Companies Call for Action on Climate Change - 76kb Lightning Strikes from the Mouths of Volcanoes - 44kb The History of Auroral Substorms - 128kb Antarctica Hides Surprising Subsurface Plumbing System - 82kb Arctic ice melting rapidly, study says - 38kb Fossils Suggest Chaotic Recovery from Mass Extinction - 47kb The Day The Earth Fell Over - 43kb The Red Sea Parts Again - 122kb Ancient mariners reveal tales from the Earth's core - 74kb Hurricanes to Unleash Dormant, Hidden Power - 52kb Earth's ozone layer appears to be on the road to recovery. - 79kb Breakthrough: New Way to Peek Inside Earth - 192kb Dinosaurs Fried Within Hours of Cosmic Collision, Study Concludes - 42kb Ancient Impact Turned Part of Earth Inside-Out - 29kb Giant Slab of Earth's Crust Found Near Core - 102kb Ancient Asteroid Made Jell-O of Earth at Chicxulub Crater in Mexico's Yucatan - 69kb Meteorite survivor unearthed - 72kb In Search of Crater Chains - 128kb 2005 Leap Second - 576kb

Moon The Moon and the Magnetotail - 133kb Who's Orbiting the Moon? - 95kb New Theory Into 400-year-old Lunar Mystery - 100kb Summer Moon Illusion - 109kb Geek Trivia: The map in the moon - 51kb Shooting Marbles at 16,000 mph - 114kb Lunar Transient Phenomen - 71kb Reiner Gamma swirl: magnetic effect of a cometary impact? - 121kb Lunar Swirls, Magnetic Anomalies, and the Reiner Gamma Formation - 35kb Mysterious Lunar Swirls - 101kb Hard-nosed Advice to Lunar Prospectors - 89kb Moonquakes - 71kb The Smell of Moon Dust - 191kb Jack Skis the Moon - 121kb

Planets The Curious Case of Martian Methane - 28kb The Red Planet is Not a Dead Planet - 81kb Our "Goldilocks" Solar System - 172kb PHOENIX Scientists Confirm Water-Ice on Mars - 58kb PHOENIX Shows Martian Soil not so Alien - 117kb MESSENGER Scientists 'Astonished' to Find Water in Mercury's Thin Atmosphere - 143kb New Discoveries at Mercury - 140kb Mars Exploration Rovers Update May 2008 - 507kb Follow the water - 29kb Reunion with Mercury - 58kb Images of Saturn's Small Moons Tell the Story of Their Origins - 73kb New Lakes Discovered on Titan - 110kb Cave Skylights Spotted on Mars - 66kb Series of Storms Shrouds Mars in Dust - 132kb Is a New Moon News? - 31kb Dust Storm Time Lapse Shows Opportunity's Skies Darken - 37kb Return of the Sponge Moon - 45kb What a Difference a Decade Makes - 51kb Earth and Mars distinct to the core - 99kb Opportunity Readies for Crater Dive - 68kb Jupiter is Changing its Stripes Right in Front of Our Eyes - 124kb Did a One-Two Punch Form the Solar System? - 62kb Astronomer finds that Mercury has molten core - 23kb Chemistry and Physics Suggest a Soup Under Enceladus' South Pole - 237kb First Steps to Mars - 70kb Big Auroras on Jupiter - 76kb Saturn's Rotation Measurements Are Wrong - 55kb Probing Mars's Hidden Glaciers - 153kb Mars meets Hollywood - 60kb Caves spotted on Mars - 49kb New Mexico to Restore Status of Pluto as a Planet - 76kb Rosetta Over Mars - 70kb New Horizons Slingshots Past Jupiter on its Way to Pluto - 223kb Jupiter's Changing Face - 67kb Amateur Images Venus's Surface - 66kb Twin Lakes on Titan - 106kb A Spokesman for Saturn's Rings - 34kb Hubble Zooms In on Jupiter's New Red Spot - 127kb Saturn's Stunning Beauty - 53kb Water ice in crater at Martian north pole - 85kb Saharan Sand Dunes Found on Saturn's Moon Titan - 150kb First Images from Venus Express - 73kb First Picture from Mars Reconnaisance Orbiter - 114kb Mars Odyssey team creates high resolution video ride through Valles Marineris - 153kb Cassini observations suggest cryovolcanism on Saturn's moon Titan - 60kb Weird Saturn ring spokes may return in July - 32kb Martian Ice: Wide and Deep - 57kb Secret Documents Rewrite the Discovery of Neptune - 90kb Titan, Mars methane may be on ice - 96kb Radical! Liquid Water on Enceladus - 122kb Cassini looks at the dark side - 126kb Jupiter's New Red Spot (Sky and Telescope) - 51kb Peeking behind the veil of Venus to study its weather - 43kb Jupiter's New Red Spot (NASA News) - 102kb What's Inside a Gas Giant? - 40kb The Source of Titan's Methane - 37kb New Rings and Moons for Uranus - 56kb Ice Volcanoes Captured - 51kb Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Approaches Red Planet - 53kb Mars Express Studies Possible Aurorae Above Mars - 49kb Phobos' Shadow on Mars captured by Mars Express - 66kb Spirit Heads to Home Plate as Opportunity Finally Roves On - 153kb Cassini Observes the Orbital Dance of Epimetheus and Janus - 136kb

Meteoroids, Meteorites, Asteroids, Comets and Minor Planets Tunguska's Blast: Less is More - 41kb Asteroid Shower - 102kb Blowing a Hole in a Comet: Take 2 - 143kb Arctic Asteroid! - 143kb Dwarf planet Eris bigger than Pluto - 71kb It's Official: Eris Outweighs Pluto - 43kb Voyage to the Giant Asteroids - 57kb NASA Seeks a Near-Earth Asteroid Sample - 53kb Beefed-Up Killer Asteroid Search Nixed - 62kb Asteroid Rotation Discovery Reported - 55kb U.N. urged to take action on asteroid threat - 28kb Rethinking solar system history - 62kb A comparison of comets - 54kb Astronaut Seeks Craft to Bump Asteroids - 53kb Geek Trivia: Planet X marks the spot - 53kb Pluto Gets an Asteroid Number - 38kb All Hail Eris and Dysnomia - 62kb Pluto's Two Small Moons Officially Named Nix and Hydra - 52kb Tally of Asteroids Harboring Moons Grows Beyond 30 - 41kb Neptune Linked to Potential Swarm of Asteroids - 54kb Corkscrew Asteroid - 77kb Spitzer Telescope Sees Trail of Comet Crumbs - 57kb New Study: Some Asteroids are Like Onions - 33kb 'Shocking' Experiment Reveals How Asteroids Explode - 31kb New Object is 2nd Rock from the Sun - 48kb Long Road to Pluto and Why We're Going - 68kb Meteorites discovered to carry interstellar carbon - 21kb Mission: Pluto - 192kb Lessons from an Odd Kuiper Belt Object - 51kb Hayabusa: Team reestablishes contact with its "Falcon" - 81kb Hubble supports a common birth of Pluto's moons - 36kb Wild 2 reveals its hot origins - 61kb When Meteors Explode: Full Account of a Wild Chicago Night - 46kb Chicago's Rain of Meteorites - 70kb Comet Pojmanski - 69kb Measuring Charon - 135kb How Big Is 2003 UB313? - 81kb Pluto Adds Two New Moons - 59kb New Horizons is Pluto Bound - 47kb Taurid Seen Impacting Moon - 117kb Asteroid Dust on Earth - 61kb Stardust Returns - 53kb Girl Who Named Pluto - 40kb

Sun Living with a Star - 173kb Cartwheel Coronal Mass Ejection - 64kb Hinode Satellite Shows How Magnetic Waves and X-Ray Jets Drive Solar Wind into Space - 80kb The Sun is Bristling with X-ray Jets - 107kb Do Sunspots Forecast the Rain? - 41kb The Most Distant Sun - 74kb The Ions are Coming! - 113kb Scientists Predict Next Solar Cycle Peak - 62kb Sun's Atmosphere Sings - 27kb New Phenomena on the Sun - 99kb No Safe Place from Solar Storms - 94kb Solar Flares Could Disrupt Critical GPS Devices - 38kb Surprises from the Edge of the Solar System - 102kb Long Range Solar Forecast - 182kb Views of the March 29th Solar Eclipse - 217kb Scientists Gaze Inside Sun, Predict Strength of the Next Solar Cycle - 34kb Solar Storm Warning - 92kb Solar Cycle Solved? - 108kb

Stars Researchers Speculate How the First Stars in the Universe Came into Existence - 46kb Stars in the Middle of Nowhere - 66kb New view of doomed star - 46kb Astronomers Capture First Images of the Surface Features of Altair - 58kb The most massive star - 95kb Generations of stars in a globular - 149kb The lowest-mass white dwarf - 57kb Red supergiants let off steam - 74kb Magnetic Fields Sculpt Narrow Jets From Dying Star - 48kb Mira stars are wonderfully complex - 37kb Oscillating stars reveal their ages - 43kb Stellar outburst continues to puzzle - 71kb Star Explodes Inside Another Star - 56kb Origin found for odd 'extreme helium stars' - 23kb Most Stars Are Single - 61kb Polaris Companion - 64kb Vega Mystery Solved - 104kb

Exoplanets Planets May Thrive Around Binary Stars - 137kb Why So Lopsided? - 52kb Boring may mean livelier - 63kb "SuperEarth" Found - 56kb Earth-Like Planet Discovered - 56kb Living on the Edge of a Planetary Danger Zone - 57kb Dry Exoplanet Atmospheres - 54kb The Birth of Carbon Planets? - 149kb Amateurs Help Discover Transiting Exoplanet - 145kb Planets Around Planets? - 72kb New planet: Icy super Earth dominates distant system - 41kb Block Starlight to See Planets - 36kb Low Mass Exoplanet Discovered - 81kb

Brown Dwarfs The discovery of radio emissions from brown dwarfs may unlock the mysteries of how pulsars work. - 45kb Astronomers get a chance to size up a brown dwarf - 39kb

Nebulae Famous Space Pillars Feel The Heat Of Star's Explosion - 94kb Supersonic "bullets" in Orion - 54kb Comet Chaos in the Helix's Heart - 91kb Inside the Tarantula Nebula - 65kb Double helix nebula found in center of the Milky Way - 53kb Vanderbuilt Astronomers Map the Star Forming Winds of M42 - 112kb

Milky Way Planetary Nebulae Used to Determine Chemical Composition of the Early Milky Way Galaxy - 57kb Origin of Antimatter Cloud Discovered - 18kb Huge, Newfound Part of Milky Way Rotates Backwards - 98kb When the Galaxies Collide, Our Solar System Will Go for a Ride - 78kb All Quiet at the Galactic Core - 108kb Omega Centauri - largest globular star cluster in the Milky Way - 761kb Mysterious Sagittarius A* -- The Supermassive Black Hole at Center of the Milky Way - 91kb "Field of Streams" found in Milky Way - 23kb SDSS finds new Milky Way satellites - 94kb New Map of the Milky Way Shows Our Galaxy to be a Cannibal - 115kb The Milky Way's Middle - 121kb The Milky Way's newest satellite - 160kb The outer Milky Way's exotic origin - 58kb Milky Way super star cluster - 63kb The Milky Way's central Xray loop - 62kb Astronomers GLIMPSE Milky Way bar - 76kb Astro Apocalypse Won't Happen Here - 38kb Galactic Glow Gleaned - 69kb

Galaxies and Quasars Barred spiral galaxies are latecomers - 20kb Hubble Researchers Perplexed by Massive Compact Galaxies in the Early Universe - 178kb Monster Galaxy Pileup Spotted by Spitzer and WIYN - 142kb Help Wanted: Galaxy Classifiers - No Experience Needed - 92kb Caught in the act - 92kb The First Triple Quasar - 77kb Subaru Discovers the Most Distant Galaxy to Date - 67kb The first dark galaxy? - 72kb Infrared Andromeda Galaxy - 180kb Spitzer Finds Hundreds of Distant Galaxy Clusters - 93kb Black Hole-Galaxy Link Extended - 77kb The Hubble Ultra Deep Field seems to have a lot of dark areas in it. - 46kb Hubble images quintuple quasar - 79kb Astronomers find that galaxies are not oriented randomly in space - 66kb Gigantic Galactic Companion Discovered - 40kb M31's strange new star clusters - 86kb Supersized galaxy - 65kb Andromeda times three - 58kb Andromeda's vast starry disk - 76kb Why Galaxies Tilt Just So - 72kb Chandra Finds Evidence for Quasar Ignition - 51kb Spitzer Sees Huge Clouds of Dust Around M82 - 27kb Early Galaxies Looked Similar - 27kb M101 - a Hubble Mosaic - 124kb

Pulsars, Neutron Stars and Black Holes Discovered: A New Kind of Pulsar - 77kb How Does One Weigh a SuperMassive Black Hole? - 46kb Monster Black Holes Soon to Collide? - 29kb NASA Announces Discovery of Assault by a Black Hole - 114kb Heaviest Stellar Black Holes on Record Discovered - 123kb Beware the Piranha - 65kb Rethinking black holes - 102kb Adaptive Optics Pinpoints Two SuperMassive Black Holes in Colliding Galaxies - 84kb Scientists Find New Way to Measure Black Holes - 82kb Black Hole Spins as Fast as It Can - 47kb Black Holes May Fill the Universe with Seeds of Life - 92kb Black Hole Eclipse - 60kb Black Hole Found to be Spinning at 50% the Speed of Light - 66kb Cosmic menages a trois - 59kb Despite Rumors, Black Hole Factory Will Not Destroy Earth - 69kb Origin of the Universe's Most Powerful Magnets - 84kb Mystery Object Found in Supernova's Heart - 34kb NASA's Chandra Solves Black Hole Paradox - 50kb Birth of a Black Hole is Messy, New Observations Suggest - 61kb Dense Matters: Astronomers Peek Inside Neutron Star - 46kb Creation of Black Hole Detected - 40kb Neutron Star Collisions Common, Study Suggests - 42kb Black Hole Swallows Neutron Star, Observations Suggest - 29kb Neutron Star Found Where a Black Hole was Expected - 23kb Surprising Activity from a Dead Star - 29kb Probing neutron stars - 35kb Neutron star shows its crust - 52kb High-speed star flees Tycho's blast - 60kb First Black Hole in Milky Way's Halo Found - 61kb New Spin on Black Holes: Like Stars, They Rotate - 21kb The True Shape of Black Holes - 64kb New Twists on the Milky Way's Big Black Hole - 48kb Black Hole Model - 30kb Twisted Physics: How Black Holes Spout Off - 35kb Tumbling Neutron Star - 99kb When Black Holes Merge - 38kb Black Holes Much More Prevalent than Originally Thought - 60kb Nine years later, black hole still sings the same tunes - 50kb Night of the Living Dead... Stars - 22kb Pulsar Record Smashed - 80kb Feeding The Monster - 53kb Evidence For Black Holes - 62kb

High Energy and Cataclysmic Astronomy The 1843 Eruption of Eta Carinae May Represent a New Class of Star Explosion - 50kb A Brief Mystery: What are Short Gamma-ray Bursts? - 69kb The Oddball Hosts of Gamma-ray Bursts - 96kb Gamma-ray Bursts: The Mystery Continues - 74kb Naked-Eye Gamma-ray Burst Aimed Directly at Earth - 74kb Galactic Hunt Bags Missing Supernova - 97kb Naked-eye Gamma Ray Burst - 79kb NASA and Gemini Probe Mysterious Explosion in the Distant Past - 24kb A Gamma-Ray Burst Out of Nowhere - 55kb Mystery Pulse from Outer Space - 16kb Double explosion signals stardeath - 49kb The Brightest Supernova Ever - 74kb A Naked-Eye Nova in Scorpius - 74kb New type of gamma-ray source found - 128kb GRB theory questioned - 112kb Astronomy's "Impossible" Supernova? - 49kb Nuclear Explosion on Recurrent Nova RS Ophiuchi Observed in Unprecedented Detail - 96kb Stellar Sound Waves Set Off Supernovas - 109kb Supernova data multiplies - 58kb Deadly Nearby Gamma Ray Burst is Highly Unlikely - 158kb RHESSI satellite captures giant gamma-ray flare - 93kb

Relativity and Cosmology Rare Double-Pulsar System Provides More Support for General Relativity - 37kb Astronomers Find Rare Double Einstein Ring - 44kb NASA Scientists Predict Black Hole Light Echo Show - 23kb Gravity Probe B Proves Einstein Right: Gravity Warps the Fabric of Space-Time - 113kb Do hidden dimensions exist? - 85kb Dark matter hides in starless galaxies - 74kb Galaxies give proof of dark matter - 66kb A Five Quasar Gravitational Lens - 184kb Physics in Universe's youth - 20kb Universe in Flux: Constant of nature might have changed - 101kb Einstein's Warped View of Space Confirmed - 74kb The Hunt for Gravity Waves - 72kb Was Einstein Wrong about Space Travel? - 107kb Cosmic Explosion Mystery Deepens - 74kb WMAP Bolsters Case for Cosmic Inflation - 119kb Einstein Passes New Tests - 61kb E=mc2 Proven Accurate to One Part in a Million - 107kb Global Positioning and Special Relativity - 55kb

Telescopes Liquid Mirror Telescopes on the Moon - 89kb Counting Down to a Liquid Mirror Telescope on the Moon - 192kb N.M. Observatory to Help New Astronomers - 21kb The Vatican Runs Quite an Impressive Observatory - 151kb Subaru's eye improves - 50kb Astronomy in the fast lane! - 20kb The Universe Through the Looking Glass - 64kb The New Planet Machine - World's Largest Telescope - 209kb GAIA Space-Based Observatory to Record a Billion Stars - 56kb

SpaceCraft Voyager 2 reaches termination shock - 95kb Deep Impact's New Assignments - 74kb Voyager 2's Lucky Day - 32kb

Misc The Leap Year: Invented by the Egyptians, Implemented by Caesar, Perfected by a Pope - 372kb Touch the Invisible Sky: Exploring the Cosmos in Braille - 94kb The physics prize inside the iPod - 65kb Tones from Deep Space - 80kb Tame Tornadoes Might Generate Power - 115kb Geek Trivia: The ice is right - 23kb No Foolin' - 'Lab on a Chip' Works! - 50kb You Can't Travel Back in Time, Scientists Say - 104kb The Enduring Mystery of Light - 110kb Kansas Rewrites Science Standards Again - 34kb When Does Daylight Time Begin and End? - 58kb Archaeologists find huge Neolithic village near Stonehenge - 38kb Amateur Astronomer Wins Pros' Accolades - 52kb News from the AAS - 82kb Geek Trivia: Elements of surprise - 52kb Germs from space? - 34kb Chaos could keep fusion under control - 54kb Light Travels Backward and Faster than Light - 84kb Celestial Sleuths Solve Another Munch Mystery - 86kb Invisibility Shield - Really! - 63kb Peering into Planetary Graveyards - 59kb