Major comets coming our way It’s been a while since we were treated to a nice Comet encounter. The dramatic surprise brightening of Comet 17P Holmes in 2007 (to the right is a..
Commercial flight docks with ISS I don’t usually write about space travel / satellites and such but this is a momentus occassion. The first commercial resupply flight has docked..
ALMA Sees First Light The Atacama large milllimetre/submillimetre array (Alma) – one of the most advanced telescopes ever built. After 8 years it has finally seen first..
Special Relativity in Jeopardy Not strictly as astronomy but certainly affects it in a big way. A few days ago physicists at the OPERA (Oscillation Project with Emulsion-tRacking..
ISS Flyover catches Aurora Australis Not really much to say about this one. Just a very impressive video of the Southern Lights as captured by the ISS on a flyover between Madagascar..
NASA Snaps the Green Isle St Patrick’s Day 2011. Here’s one for Paddy’s day. The NASA Earth Observatory snaps an image of Ireland and publishes it as their Image of the..
Voyager Studies Solar Wind Man’s most distant creation, Voyager 1 is still going strong. NASA have swung it 70 degrees from it’s normal orientation to align it’s instruments..
The Sun Well it’s not news per se but here’s a link to article that the guys at Space.com have posted giving a great overview of the Sun, it’s evolution..
Glory Fails to Reach Orbit A sad blow for climatologists – NASA’s Glory spacecraft has failed to reach orbit. The Taurus XL rocket was carrying two instruments designed to..
The Missing Sunspots Problem Explained I began looking at the Sun in white light in 2007 and got the bug for H-Alpha observing in 2008. There were plenty of predictions that activity..
