Astronomy: Search The Galaxy

My brother recently returned from Africa and told me had seen a rather impressive shooting star. He wanted to know if I could identify it (which I couldn’t) so now I pass the question on to you. He described it as passing almost …
Original post by Sock puppet

I have just been informed by Alison Smith from Randi’s organization that they are auctioning off a tour of Penn’s house, The Slammer, and a dinner with Penn his own self. This is very cool; Penn’s house is… well, you just have to see it …
Original post by The Bad Astronomer

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Original post by Mister Earl

… Baldwin summarises the key goals of each ambitious mission as described by the European Space Agency’s director David Southwood and the Open University’s Professor John Zarnecki in today’s lectures at the National Astronomy Meeting.
Original post by ToSeek

A little earlier I was typing up some recent solar observation reports and I realised that it’s now over two years since I started observing the sun as often as possible and keeping a log of sunspot counts. …
Original post by Dave Pearson

A new discovery has resolved some of the mystery surrounding Omega Centauri, the largest and brightest globular cluster in the sky. Images obtained with the Advanced Camera for Surveys onboard the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and …
Original post by ToSeek

Using the most sensitive images ever obtained with the United Kingdom Infra-Red Telescope (UKIRT), astronomers have found convincing evidence that galaxies which look old early in the history of the Universe reside in enormous clouds of …
Original post by ToSeek

I know calling this a space story is a bit of a stretch…#6 is about sound in space. But; we’ve spent a lot of time on this sort of thing, so… Physics in Hollywoodland. Quote: …
Original post by NEOWatcher

A red-tailed hawk nesting in Fenway Park attacked a teenager who was visiting the stadium. (Neither was seriously hurt.) The twist: the teen’s name is A-Rod. :p http://www.boston.com/news/local/mas…ory_at_fenway/
Original post by Donnie B.

How are resources managed on for example the ISS or the shuttles? (Things like water and atmosphere?) Recycling? How do they scrub the CO2 out of the air? I’m just curious. I don’t know anything about it. …
Original post by Jay200MPH