Today is the 45th anniversary of Gagarin's flight - the first man into space. How far we have gone since then..... Lawrence

i have just realised i can watch episodes of the sky at night online at the bbc,they only seem to be watchable on realplayer,i already have windows media...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4895792.stm Astrog

Hiya All Long time since Ive posted so please bear with me... in in the middle of a house move etc, and have had a sort out of my kit, thus there are a few...

....today. Whatever happened to 100 flights a year? The future is postponed. Sigh.

With Adam Hart Davis, repeated 23.50 , 12,Apr

Hi all, Planet Vistas displays the solar system on your Windows desktop background in real time. The renderings are both beautiful and accurate. Watch...

I have a Meade ETX125 and a Meade LPI Any tutorials anywhere? How do you make a mosaic? 101 questions!!! Steve

The Orbs of Heaven or The Planetary & Stellar Worlds ,A Popular Exposition of The great Discoveries and Theories of Modern Astronomy by O M Mitchell A.M....

11 April 2006 Students of two Warsaw academic schools have prepared a joint space project. Their unique purpose satellite will be put into orbit at the start...

Hi, I started tracking this nearby binary system back in summer 2004, and was intending to repeat my observations every other year in the hope of seeing some...

Can anyone advise? TIA Nytecam

the amazing coincidence that the moon is exactly the right size to exactly cover the sun about 6 times a decade to give us a spectacular eclipse seems almost...

Does anyone know who the astrophotographer is in this image? http://sabbe.fragzone.se/KPO/domes.htm Robin

Been playing can and mouse with the Sun/clouds this morning. There are a couple of nice proms on there for all you PST users to drool over. Here's a quick grab...

Hi, I am curious to know what proportion of the points of light that are visible to the naked eye are part of our galaxy ? Thanks, -- Boo

Hi all, After a very confusing night with comet 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann on Wednesday, I finally figured out that the comet I'd found was in fact both of the...

Did anyone go to either of these and how was the weather? Owen

Hi all, we had an excellent and very successful adventure travelling to Turkey to observe the eclipse. Although we didn't set out to image it, one click of one...

The European Space Agency's probe Venus Express will finally arrive at its destination on 11 April after a five-month, 400 million km journey. The space craft...