Meteor seen burning up from much of Eastern U.S.
On Friday March 22nd 2013 at about 8:00pm a meteor was observed that was seen from Maine to North Carolina. The American Meteor Society has received over 715 reports of…
Category Archives: Astronomy
Best map ever of oldest light in the universe from Planck
The Planck space mission has released the most accurate and detailed map ever made of the oldest light in the universe, revealing new information about its age, contents and origins….
Congress Mulls Asteroid Protection for the Most Important Planet – Earth
On March 19th 2013 the U.S. Congress heard testimony from NASA about the potential of the most important planet in the universe being wiped out by an asteroid. The odds were…
Interesting Pictures of Earth-Moon Eclipsing Sun from SDO
File this under interesting trivia. On March 2, 2013, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) entered its semiannual eclipse season, a period of three weeks when Earth blocks its view of…
Kepler out of Safe Mode, Observatory performing well
Kepler has been performing well and has been making science observations since recovery from safe mode on Jan. 27, 2013. Last January the flight team placed the observatory in a precautionary wheel rest safe…
Comet Pan-STARRS viewable first part of March
Comet PanSTARRS Images Taken from Washington D.C. area 3/14/13 Original Image not enlarged. This gives you an idea if the naked eye view compared to the zoomed in versions….
NASA releases radar images of asteroid DA14 close approach
This 73-frame movie of asteroid 2012 DA14 was generated from data obtained by NASA’s Goldstone Solar System Radar on the night of Feb. 15 to 16, 2013. The observations were…
Kepler Data Suggest Earth-size Planets May Be Next Door
(Source – NASA) Using publicly available data from NASA’s Kepler space telescope, astronomers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) estimate that six percent of red dwarf stars in the…
