I believe Rancho Hidlago is a site shared by several amateurs. I can find their web site, but it seems to be out of order. Anyone know how to contact anyone...

Is there a newsgroup that is DEDICATED to Astronomy? THIS one surely is not. -- WGD 'The Gutenberg galaxy is being eclipsed by the constellation of...

Pls, what the scientific community's current position re Immanuel Velikovsky's "Worlds in Collision" theory about Venus being a captured comet in the 4th-5th...

My question started with astrology but the answer concerns astronomy. I wanted to know the exact hour when the sun transits the degree and minute of my birth....

According to a TV documentary last week the moon is very slowly moving away from us. Does it need to be accelerating to do that? If that is the case were is...

That book/movie sure made a convincing case regarding space alien abduction.

On Tuesday, October 16, 2018 at 4:18:56 AM UTC-4, The Starmaker wrote: Whisper wrote: On 15/10/2018 6:00 AM, The Starmaker wrote: Where do...

The Radio Variability of the Gravitational Lens PMN J1838-3427 http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/astro-ph/0409206 I'm hoping to go out to the site in about a month and...

http://stardust.jpl.nasa.gov/comets/giotto.html "Water accounted for about 80% by volume of all of the material being thrown out by the comet. Seven jets were...

"Howard Lester" wrote in message ... He passed away this morning at age 97. I listened to an...

http://planetquest.jpl.nasa.gov/news/MajorPlanet.html Now if Darla could give us all the details BEFORE the news gets leaked, that would be neat. Of course...

For those of us with scopes (and even those without can enjoy this), go out early morning, look to the east. Saturn and Venus, close, bright and worth...

Lucky *******s on the re-entry path: http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2004/03sep_genesisreentry.htm

An Optical Catalog of the Chandra Large Area Synoptic X-ray Survey Sources Accepted for publication in the Astronomical Journal. (an excellent peer reviewed...

Launching this December, "Deep Impact", due to fire a 820 pound projectile into the comet, in July 2005, to give us a look at the composition. Predictions are...

This past month, a bunch of us went to the Magellan Observatory, near Canberra for a weekends observing. I was mucking around with my Kodak, and my Meade...

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/genesis/main/index.html I must say, I was somewhat impressed that the whole thing wasn't vapourised. I do hope they get...

This caught my eye: "Scientists have theorized that the inside of a neutron star - the remnant from a star that has collapsed under its own gravity - is a...

"The Universe has experienced far fewer collisions among galaxies than previously thought, according to a new analysis of Hubble Space Telescope data by an ANU...