5. Superman jumps in front of a speeding bus, puts out his arms and stops the bus in 1 second. If the bus was traveling at 37 mph and weighs 57000 Lb. What...

Well man has seen Mars as the third brightest object in the sky. shame to say I'm from the same state as Percival Lowel(he had weird thoughts) The money he...

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Perhaps a stupid question but i'm new to astronomy and i would like to know if a galaxy moves or not and if it moves, how does it move? I mean, the planets are...

I have a Dobsonian 8" telescope made by Discovery Telescopes. "Up close" objects are fine, water towers, trees, even the moon. However, when I try to focus...

I dunno if this is old news, but I don't see any posts on it. Spirit has made some initial infared views of the area and has detected water and carbonites....

the other isnt ...The sky was soo clear tonite...I saw stars that i havent seen for a while.. amazing..........I presume one of the stars is Mars .... but...

Hi. I'm having a telescope problem! I have the kind with the different sizes of lenses, and the only one that works is 20x! If I put any smaller than that, all...

OK. In the astro photography newsgroup, people frequently list both seeing and transparency at the time of their photos on a 1-10 scale with 10 being good. I...

There is a brandnew astronomy magazine for beginning stargazers. The name of this bimonthly magazine is Night Sky. Follow this link if you are...

This week we continue our tour of the Pinwheel Galaxy in Triangulum with a high resolution color image taken through the 10" telescope js PHOTO OF THE...

lately there has been a few pics of mars with a blue atmosphere, but having said that.... ever taken a bike to the beach? notice how the tracks are...

Hi, Hoping that I (an astronomical newbie) can get some help on these questions: 1) What are the dates and times of earth's apogee and perigee for 2004? 2)...

I have a Tasco telescope with three different lenses. Am I better of looking at the planets with either the 4mm lens, 12.5mm or 25mm? Many thanks. Brian...

Does the effect of gravity actually get from the Sun to the Earth faster than light? First, I read that the Sun's photons take something like 8.3 minutes...

I got beautiful pictures of it from just after sundown in Orlando. What is that thing?

Glenn W. Cooper wrote: You're being too hard on Hoagland. Sure, he gets a little carried away and over-exuberant at times, but he's also been very RIGHT...

And if there is indeed 'water' (or organics) on the moon as some surveys suggest then it might cost a lot less. We'll never know until we start exploring...

This uses the clock on your system and gets GMT from that then calculates Sidereal Time. Hope its useful... http://80.3.72.34/~robin/sidereal_time/

A river running into an ancient lake, is about where the first probe landed, minus th boats, so...