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January 12 and 14, 2007 passed without much fanfare for the one-hundredth and forty-first anniversaries of the birth and death (respectively) of an important man…
Sunday, 14 January 2007 05:50
The New Space Race: It's not just the United States versus the Soviet Union anymore!
The 1957-1975 Space Race was a highly competitive contest between the United States and the Societ Union to ultimately land humans on the Moon. However, in…
Over the past thirty years astronomers have gathered information on an asteroid belt around a star other than the Sun. That star—Zeta Leporis—is about 70…
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On January 11, 2007, I reported on ITwire.com about “The Ten Best Hubble Photographs”. Today, I follow it up with an article based on a…
Thursday, 11 January 2007 03:08
Evening of January 12th: Best time to watch Comet McNaught in northern hemisphere
Comet McNaught has brightened as it approaches the Sun. Astronomers now are considering it to be the brightest comet that has been seen from the…
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Over a sixteen-year period, with various ups and downs in its ability to observe the universe, the Hubble Space Telescope has taught humankind that the…
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Astronomers reported in early January 2007 that the Hubble Space Telescope observed a massive number of particles within a turbulent circumstellar disk surrounding the 12-million-old…
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Cometary experts have calculated that the orbit of Comet McNaught should come as near as 15.8 million miles (25.4 million kilometers) from the Sun (what…
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Renowned physicist Stephen Hawking is planning a zero-gravity aircraft flight this year in preparation for a venture into space in 2009.
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Scientists have created the first 3D map showing the distribution of dark matter in a portion of the universe. The European Space Agency describes the…
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