Meteor Showers ... There are many minor meteor showers this month... ... The northern Taurids and southern Taurids start to become active about October 1st, but do not reach maximums until early November. Both have ...
The namesake for NASAs most important telescope, Edwin Hubble has been called a modern-day Galileo. He identified multiple galaxies and helped to define the way in which the universe expands, providing evidence for the Big Bang theory. ... Edwin Powe...
The National Space Society's International Space Development Conference is where astronauts, scientists, entrepreneurs, officials, activists and other citizens who look forward to the final frontier gather each year. Regular features include talks b...
Pupils at St Sampson's School in Cricklade were able to touch the moon when they returned to school this term. ... Pupils handled meteorites among the rare samples of moon rock and lunar dust that landed at the junior school. ... Read more...
On Nov. 18-19th, 2005, sky watchers somewhere will see a dazzling storm of Leonid meteors.
Though not as spectacular an event as the "1998 Leonid fireball storm", which wasn't really a storm at all, with meteor rates that night never exceeded a few ...
Media Invited to International Earth Observation Briefing, Exhibit ... The United States is hosting the sixth plenary meeting of the Group on Earth Observations, or GEO, this week at the Ronald Reagan Building, 1300 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, in ...
South African astronomers and their counterparts around the world are over the moon at the news that the United Nations General Assembly has declared 2009 the International Year of Astronomy (IYA2009). ... ... "This is huge we've been pushin...
Rare paintings make U.S. debut in Minneapolis ... Amongst the rare objects, a painting by Johannes Vermeer titled 'The Astronomer'. The painting has never been to the U.S. before this exhibit and likely will not leave the Louvre again. ... .....
Over the last 11 years you have sent truly magnificent images to Atmospheric Optics and its offspring Optics Picture of the Day. ... Now there is an opportunity to submit them and others to a summer long public exhibition at the Boyden Gallery of St....
Earth is currently moving through a swarm of pebble-sized meteoroids; when one hits our atmosphere at 65,000 mph. it will produce a spectacular fireball. These fireballs are part of the annual Taurid meteor shower.
Every year, in late October and e...
Broward College Presents "Carl Sagan Day: A Celebration of Science" ... Renowned astronomer the late Carl Sagan, who died in December 1996, was probably most familiar to the public through his COSMOS series on PBS. He was also a Puli...
Solar Eclipse Marathon ... Plans to hold a marathon in north Queensland to coincide with a solar eclipse in November are "foolhardy" and a health hazard, doctors say. ... Organisers expect the world's first Solar Eclipse Marathon to ...
EUROPEAN ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICISTS TO CELEBRATE 100 YEARS OF COSMIC RAY EXPERIMENTS ... ... Geneva, 1 October 2009. Four hundred years ago, Galileo was the first one to look at the sky with a telescope. About 100 years ago a new era for astrop...
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